Kuleto was married to Shannon . Their son Daniel was born in 1996 . In September 2011 , he married the former Jennifer Astrup . Kuleto 's design process is often extemporaneous , rather than fully planned at the beginning of a project . He usually creates a fictional story about each location , imagining an old invented history . As an example , Epic Roasthouse is imagined as ( and is close to the real-life location of ) a pump house that was proposed but never built as a backup fire protection system in San Francisco , and would likely have prevented most of the destruction from the fires caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake , which ruptured most of the cities primary water mains . The restaurant is the pump house that would have saved the city
1906 San Francisco earthquake
1906 San Francisco earthquake
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