Katherine George-Byrd waits at the counter for James George to hand her a plate. Since opening Zak's Café on Front Street in 2001, the couple has always split up the restaurant's responsibilities: James cooks the food and Katherine serves it.
Amid the sizzle of halibut in the deep fryer, the methodical pounding of James George's knife against the cutting board and the fervent chatter of the Zak's Cafe lunch rush, there was one noise that eclipsed all others: Norman Greenbaum's 1969 hit "Spirit in the Sky."
Katherine and James opened Zak's Cafe in the summer of 2001, a year after getting married. James handles the back of the house and Katherine the front. As for everything else - such as dishes, cleaning and any tasks required to run a restaurant - "whichever of us has the time," Katherine laughed.
James may decide the day's specia...
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