Mike Smith, the longtime owner of Fort Worth's iconic Paris Coffee Shop, died Monday.
Six days a week Smith was in the restaurant well before sunrise, baking pies and biscuits. As he made plans to retire last year, he trained longtime employee Cleveland Arner on how to make and perfect the pies and the chicken and dumplings.As Smith stepped away from the family business after 55 years,
,"I'll miss the people. I'll miss my employees.” However, he would not miss"the stress of everyday business especially when every day, something breaks down."Gregory Smith, bought Paris Coffee ShopMike Smith attended Texas Christian University in pursuit of a master's degree in management and had no plans to join his dad. But in 1965, when his dad got sick, Smith found himself stepping in. He was the youngest of seven sons and the only one available to help his dad.
At breakfast and lunch, he greeted regulars with a firm handshake or a joke. Even those there for the first time never felt like strangers. When Smith sold the restaurant to Reale, chef-restaurateur Lou Lambert and developer Mark Harris, he found in them a group committed to respecting the restaurant’s decades-long history yet willing to spend the money needed to take it into the future.
“He just retired, and that’s what shocks me,” Reale said. “Selfishly, I want to tell him, ‘I wasn’t done with your help.'"
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