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Jax “Dr. Leon� Moss, a member of the Waldkinder Adventure Preschool summer camp, gives one of his favorite chickens a lift on his fourth birthday last week. For more pictures of what kids in Carbondale have been up to of late, please turn to pages 8-9. Photo by Jane Bachrach
Sun Volume 7, Number 22 | July 9, 2015
Red Rock Diner changes hands By John Colson Sopris Sun Staff Writer
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he Red Rock Diner, where founder Bob Olenick has been serving meals to hungry customers for 21 years, recently was sold to Marty Voller, a New Castle man with two decades worth of his own ties to the valley’s restaurant scene. The sale of the business closed on July 1, and while Olenick said he’ll be hanging around for a month or so to help with the transition, it is now under new management. But, Voller assured a reporter during a phone interview on Tuesday, customers won’t see any big changes in the menu or other aspects of the business. “Bob ran things right for 20-some years,â€? Voller said. “I don’t think I should change a whole lot.â€? The eatery, located at 155 Highway 133, just outside Carbondale’s northern boundary, will continue to serve breakfast, lunch and dinner, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week, Voller said. And the old-fashioned look of the diner will remain as it is, he added. The only changes Voller predicted, at least initially, will show up as specials advertised on placards outside the restaurant, so “watch for tweaks in the specials,â€? he advised interested patrons. Olenick, who founded the restaurant in September, 1994, on ground once occupied by a gas station, declined to be interviewed about the transition, telling a reporter with characteristic gruff humor, “I don’t need any exposure, any publicity.â€? As for his own future, Olenick remarked, “I haven’t even thought about it.â€? Voller, who described himself as “in my early 40s,â€? is a single father of “two wonderful, wonderful childrenâ€? who moved to the Roaring Fork Valley in 1992 from a small town in central Minnesota. He said he has a degree in meat science and a certiďŹ cate in “charcuterie,â€? described as the art of producing a variety of smoked and cured meat products, which brought him jobs at such venerable Aspen institutions as The Butcher’s Block, the Cooper Street Pier and The Cantina. But after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, he said, his wife convinced him to move to New York, where her family was located, and where the couple lived while he managed restaurants. He later returned to the Roaring Fork Valley, to work for the Sysco food distribution corporation. It was while he worked as a salesman for Sysco, he said, that he met Olenick, as the Red Rock RED ROCK DINER page 7
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