text:  In interviewing current and former supper club owners while researching this book, I found that, yeah, not every generation or not everyone in each subsequent generation had that enthusiasm about running a family restaurant. I wanted to capture that and tell that story too. But Mariel does call it a place where people choose to spend the most memorable nights of their lives. And even though they're also a place you can go after a softball game or a day of fishing, that is what they are.