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Cameron Mitchell Highlight
One step in front of the other. You’re trying to build a career and a lifetime, and it’s done one brick at a time. There’s no other way to do it.
About Cameron
- I was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio.
- I started working in restaurants when I was in high school, starting as a dishwasher at a local steakhouse.
- Upon graduating high school, I realized that I loved working in restaurants and wanted to devote my career to that.
- At age 18, I wrote out my goals and the steps I would need to take to get from culinary school to president of a restaurant company by age 35—then I set myself out on that path.
- While building my career, I realized that I wasn’t going to be able to become the president of the restaurant company I was working for, so I began thinking about starting my own restaurant company.
- I left my job and spent 14 months working without a paycheck to try and put my first restaurant together.
- I opened my first restaurant in 1993 at 30 years old—since then, I’ve continued to build Cameron Mitchell Restaurants up and have opened 100 restaurants across the country.
