Someone I met today was a restaurant owner. I was sick on this day, and a friend of mine offered to eat with me since I finally got hungry at 10pm at night. We were talking about my upcoming vacation and food truck owner overheard.

"Oh! You're going to Iceland? I heard that place is sick. My good buddy just went there and he took some mean photos. They love Hawaii people there, you just have to say you're from there. I don't think he bought a beer the first couple nights."
"Oh good, because I love talking to strangers."
"Hah, what a funny way to put that, but that's good! You must be a sales person!"

My friend said that he was right.

We continued to chat because I had overheard him talking about POWWOW Hawaii and wanted to ask him more about it.

"So where do you cook?"
"I own Bao Boys."
"Oh I've heard of you, that's pretty cool!"

He proceeded to tell me what they were doing at the POWWOW Kickoff this weekend and what limited edition products they would have.

"When are you going to Iceland?"
"March, but I'm going to NYC before and after."
"Oh! I love NYC, I just moved back from there a couple months ago."
"Yeah! I'm excited to go because there's tons of stuff to eat."
"Let me give you a list."

He wrote down a list of Asian foods that he enjoyed in NYC and praised the cooking of his peers highly, which was really awesome to see. I sent the list to my friend in Boston so that he could try it with his girlfriend who's in NYC.