By CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews Milwaukee - If you could have your dream job and all it cost was $100, would you jump at the chance? Would you be suspicious? Would you ask "who sells anything like this for $100?" The answer to these questions made for one of the most interesting, uplifting, win-win stories I've come across in years.
(Watch the video below.) Here's the basic story. The owner of the very hip, upscale National cafe in downtown Milwaukee, Michael Diedrick, wanted to sell the restaurant to devote more time to his web design business, The Byte Studio, located just two doors down from the cafe.
His neighborhood, Walker's Point, is an area he politely describes as one "that could go either way." That's his code for a neighborhood on the cusp of going upscale or losing ground to the crackheads and falling apart. To win that battle, he figured he could not lose the higher income clientele who patronize the National's gourmet coffees, organic foods and freshly baked (on site) pastries. This meant he needed the right owner.
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