John Kerry

Came in, (he was) charming, had a lunch meeting with Gov. Jerry Brown. They stayed a little over an hour. When he was finished with lunch, he went through, shook peoples’ hands, said hello, took pictures with people, met Tony and I, said he thinks we’re doing a wonderful job, told us to keep up the good work. He loved his lunch, he had marinated steak salad.

He was very nice. I thought it was great. Here’s the third most powerful man in the world in your restaurant.

How did the Secretary of State end up at Trio, out of all the other restaurants in the valley?

“They said they went on line and they looked looked for places that ‘got involved’ and they said ‘you get involved’ and that’s why he told us to keep up the good work. It was very cool.”