He launched nine Outrageous Taco restaurants in Seattle and Ellensburg in the '70s, Kazdal's Deli in the University District at about the same time, Big Momma's Pizza and a dozen or so smaller, more forgettable places. In the restaurant business, as in baseball, you don't have to have a hit to get to first base. While the others are busting their buns looking for the gold, I'm getting rich selling shovels. If you're looking to get into the restaurant or bakery business, Kazdal probably has, or certainly can get, whatever equipment you would need. Kazdal, with a crew of a half-dozen or so workers, bids on, buys and moves most of the equipment that passes through here.
Technicians rebuild and refurbish the equipment as it is sold.
A lot of restaurants go out of business or close for lots of reasons, and even the successful ones want to be more successful. Which is not to say it all moves well, or at all. We had to sell three big truckloads of stuff as scrap metal last year . . . But that's all part of doing business in a big way in a big field. And nowadays, when he locks up at night, Kazdal knows this is one shop that won't fold because of lack of business.