Restaurateur Sam Fox often eats double the calories that most people consume which is 2,000 - sometimes, all before lunch, according to the Business Insider.
Fox oversees an astounding count of about 50 restaurants in eight states and spends most of the time tasting what's in the menus - that is his responsibility as the CEO and founder of Fox Restaurant Concepts. The Business Insider recently spoke to Fox about his life as the man who consumes about 4,000 calories a day.
He says that he had an early introduction to the restaurant world especially since his parents are passionate about food as well. "My parents had a couple Mon and Pop restaurants where you worked six and seven days a week and it was truly a job just to support the family. It wasn't as glamorous in the 70's as it is today. So all my life the school bus would drop me off at my parent's restaurant, and I would sit at a booth and do my homework and then help them in the kitchen as a bus boy or waiter. I loved it. It was something I was inherently good at and you always gravitate toward those things," Fox shared.
Fox was studying real estate finance at the University of Arizona when his parents decided to move to Florida so he dropped out at the age of 20 and took his remaining tuition money and used it for one of his first restaurants. Fox admitted to being able to consume about 4,000 calories even before lunch time.
"A lot of it is when I'm out traveling. For example, I recently started my day in Phoenix and had a salted caramel roll from one of our bakers then I came to Los Angeles, and my family and I went to the Rose Café in Venice and we had 14 dishes. Then we went to Salt and Straw for ice cream. Then while we were walking the streets we came upon a to-go place, and I went in and ordered two pieces of pizza and three cookies to try. Then I said, 'I gotta stop this.' I love food. I love eating. I love new experiences.'
