“If you can, take care of each other.”
— DJ
I'm originally from Yorkville Illinois that's where live. Seven years ago I had started a small unit grocery store in Naperville. I had a lot of students from NIU come over there all the way to Naperville to buy groceries. I told them, you know, this is like cold weather and all that, just bring the order and I can come and deliver it for you. No charge. So every Sunday, usually I would come here and deliver all the food. The students were like, "Why you cannot open here because there's nothing around here." And I said, "Okay." So that's how I came here.
So it's, it's a really amazing. The way I wanted to do it is open the grocery store and open the cafeteria and all that. This is a perfect place. And we opened it. That’s how we got here. So basically it's just happens.
This is a perfect place.
But the biggest thing you can earn is relations that you create with the community.
What brought me to DeKalb is kind of more personal. Other than the business, I was really close with my grandparents. Both my grandparents mother's side and father's side. I lost them all, so it was really sad. And when I bought this business here, when I came here, I was thinking, what we can do because they’re gone and you were really close with them. And all of a sudden, I figured that, I could make so many grandpas and grandmas here. They come here every day to make their copies. They want to ship something. They can barely walk, they want to talk so much. It's like I now have so many grandmas and so many grandpas and I called them grandma and I call them grandpas. So they come here and they, they talk. So they have found their grandchild that can listen, so they come here and they talk. I become the one who listens. So I feel that's amazing. I mean, the biggest achievement that I feel is that this is my family and that I’ve extended my family, amazingly.