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Name: Pat Kuleto. Title: Founder.
Company: Pat Kuleto Restaurant Development and Management Co.; restaurant designs; part-owner of Boulevard, Farrallon and Jardiniere in San Francisco and Martini House in St. Helena.
2001 revenue: $38 million to $40 million.
Number of employees: 550.
Year founded: 1991.
Source of startup capital: Personal finances.
Background: Started in the restaurant design business as a carpenter; earned a general contractor's license at age 24; has worked in every part of a restaurant and has been contractor, designer or developer of 168 restaurants; also owns and operates Kuleto Estate Family Vineyard.
Age: 56.
Residence: St. Helena.
Web site: www.kuleto.com.
BIG PICTURE
Reason for starting business: It was almost accidental. I come from a period of time where there was no such thing as a restaurant designer. If you told a banker you were going to open a restaurant, they hit you in the nose with the door. I got into the industry very early on by waiting tables and being a carpenter. This grew rapidly into building restaurants, and then designing them. The first restaurant I built was in...