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When they were both in college, Jon and Patty met at a restaurant called The Crab Trap where Jon was the dinner chef. One night, Patty was at the bar with some friends and she met Jon, who was filling in for a bartender.  That night the restaurant owner told Patty, “You’re going to marry Jon some day.” Patty laughed.

A week later Patty visited the bar and saw Jon there, having an off duty drink. She bought him a drink and the rest, as they say, is history.

After they met, Jon and Patty worked together as chef and dining room manager respectively at The Back Burner, a restaurant in Hockessin, Delaware.  They got engaged there.  The restaurant is still in business nearly 30 years later and has become a universal shrine to love won and kept in the culinary world…. just kidding.

“Food was delicious and our waiter was the best, so attentive and caring! Cheers to Jon & Patty’s!!”

Denise Maiden (via Facebook)