Hometown Hermantown - Open For Business - Valentini's
You know who else wants a great hometown? Local businesses! Just like families and residents, local businesses want great relationships, meaningful connections, and real partnerships. Valentini's has been making incredible food for a long time, and they've loved calling Hermantown their hometown for the last several years! #HometownHermantown
Based on the context provided and the history of the business mentioned (**Valentini’s Vicino Lago** in Hermantown), the speaker is **Carolyn Valentine**, the owner of the restaurant.
While she is not a city official listed in your directory, this transcript is part of a "Business Spotlight" segment frequently featured in Hermantown city meetings to highlight local commerce.
[0:00] Carolyn Valentine: [Music] my grandmother started valentinis in chisel Minnesota 1934 she was an immigrant she came here when she was very young she was a fabulous [Music] cook in 2007 I and my sister decided to put a valentinis in duth and then uh we actually had to move our restaurant up to Hermantown and I was just lucky to find a place to go and it took a little bit of time and effort but we uh expanded many times and this is where we are now behind this restaurant is a huge
[0:47] Carolyn Valentine: development of folks that I think they think this is their Community Center and we are surrounded with many many businesses who use our catering services and sometimes they just come in here and have events parties all the people from the range drive right by here so we have that group of people and it seems that since Co our restaurant has assumed many many caterings for sports teams I will say I I take care of every team that puts a ball in a hole we do a lot of the high schools we do Proctor Hermon we work with st Scholastic of many of their their teams there I think our food is easy to cater and it's it's um it's affordable and it's good so that part
[1:33] Carolyn Valentine: has been really good for us as well I always remember that the reason I believe that we are so successful here is because I've had a history of of creating relationships with people from 2007 until now and that I believe is the key to any business being successful [Music]