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years ago. Since then, she has worked as a server, line cook,
floor manager, personnel manager, and shift supervisor. She has
hired and inspired generations of waiters and waitresses. Jana
has done jobs from janitorial to inventory management, ordering
everything from straws to steaks. "I was supposed to go to busi-
ness school and be a secretary or something…" Her voice trails
off, reflecting on her pathway to becoming one of the current
owners and stockholder, as she casts a wistful look across a room
full of customers. When it was a twenty-four-hour restaurant,
"I even worked the rowdy late night bar crowd," she recalls with
a smile that would disarm the devil. Jana is a businesswoman
who fashions her own terms—a woman of no half measures.
"When I retire I'm gonna write a story about this place."
"Oh the stories," she says as she folds her arms across her
chest as if to hug herself. "Oh the stories." In her almost moth-
er-hen role, she and original co-owner Steve earned the respect
of the townsfolk as quintessential restaurateurs.
Meanwhile, back in the kitchen, the faceless but critical per-
sonnel in the real nerve center grab paper orders from the vin-
tage spindle and process the selections with measured accuracy
and speed. Amid the bustle, Cassie, who has been at the Owl for
twenty-six years, plates another order… "Order up." In unblink-
ing loyalty, two and sometimes three generations of regulars
now walk through the Nite Owl Café's doors, hard-wired to the
atmosphere and history.
There is no mistaking its lore.
It has its vibe. And the crowd shuffles in.
JANA
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