Real Deal With Ron Sivak

In this episode of Lagniappe's Real Deal, we were excited (with only a week remaining before 2016's SEC college football inauguration) at the chance to interview Alabama Crimson Tide All-American and Miami Dolphins All-Pro legend, gridiron great Bob Baumhower inside the Deep Fried Studios' World Headquarters. In a pithy, candid and witty interview, host Ron Sivak digs into Baumhower's success on the field as well as reinventing himself as a self-proclaimed "Head Fry Cook" and hugely successful restaurateur with over 1,000 employees and 13 eatery locations across the state, to date under the corporate aegis of Aloha Hospitality International. Without a formal culinary background – and starting out in the restaurant game "just to be cool" as a silent partner in 1970's era, disco fabulous South Beach Florida with fellow Bama alum "Broadway" Joe Namath – Baumhower learned the ropes in the swanky Batchelor's and Batchelor's 3 dinner clubs scene that eventually evolved into what many acquaintances said was a "cr