It has long seemed to me that head coaches of professional sports franchises and restaurants are among our most recyclable commodities. With a few notable exceptions, the end of each competitive season brings with it considerable movement of coaches from one team to another, each time eliciting prognostications that this move will be the one to bring success to the struggling franchise.
Restaurants seem to follow a similar pattern.
I made a lunch stop at Nicolinni's Ristorante in Austintown Township, Ohio, recently, it was the third restaurant we had stopped at over the past two weeks that we also had visited during at least one of its previous incarnations. In this instance, the restaurant had replaced one of our all-time favorites, the Roasted Pepper. Walking in, we were skeptical. We needn't have worried. The most obvious change was for the better.