

The owner, Joe Allen was impressed by Flay’s natural ability and agreed to pay his partner’s son’s tuition at the French Culinary Institute.įlay went ahead to receive a degree in culinary arts and was a member of the first graduating class of the French Culinary Institute in 1984. His first jobs in the restaurant industry were at a pizza parlor and Baskin-Robbins and then took a position making salads at Joe Allen Restaurant in Manhattan’s Theater District, where his father was a partner. Joe which his father thought would be more gender-appropriate.

Bobby asked for an Easy-Bake Oven for Christmas at the age of 8 and despite his father’s objections, he got it together with a G.I.
