“ Most people didn ’ t get it , but I knew exactly what he meant . He was reminding me not to get cocky or lose my sense of what ’ s right , and to never assume that I was going to be successful . After all , the restaurant business has perhaps the highest percentage of failure . So , you always need to do the little things right first . Then you can get after it .”
Now with ten locations , there ’ s surely no question as to whether David ’ s Burgers has continued to do the little things right . More recently , though , Alan ’ s been looking at the big picture .
“ We ’ re increasingly making sure that the animals from which we source our meat are treated well ,” he explains . “ First off , that means only working with farmers
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