RE Log Fall 2018

)$// Ransom Everglades LOG 19 635,1* Ȉ, ZDV MXPSLQJ LQWR D SODFH ZLWK D ZHOO HVWDEOLVKHG FXOWXUH , GLGQȆW MXVW ZRUN OXQFK , ZRUNHG GLQQHUV (YHUy GDy LW ZDV D PLQLPXP RI KRXUV ȉ – Stephen Sawitz ’75 Sawitz also brought about the expan- VLRQ RI -RH¶V ¿VKHULHV LQ 0DUDWKRQ DQG Everglades City. He helped institute a now-thriving overnight retail and whole- sale shipping option, which does non-stop business during the Christmas and New Year’s holiday. He spearheaded the launch of partner restaurants in Chicago (2000), Las Vegas (2004) and Washington, D.C. (2014). “Plenty of students who get into the family business cripple the business,” Beverley said. “He tripled the business. But all the time, he was maintaining the structure of the old place.” Sawitz isn’t sure precisely when he took command, in part because his mother UHPDLQV VR LQYROYHG ³7KHUH LV GH¿QLWHO\ a connection with Steve. We can almost read each other’s minds,” she said with a grin, “though he doesn’t always like what he’s reading.” Even with the growth, the take-out, the mail orders and the expansions, dinner time at the Miami Beach location remains Joe’s core business. Joe’s Stone Crab and its partners serve 2,000 pounds of stone crabs daily. Even 100 years later, the ma- jority of those crabs land on dinner tables on South Beach. “That’s our priority,” Sawitz said. “That’s our big show. That’s prime time.” Amazing days The Joe’s Stone Crab family wants celebri- ties to feel as at home as everyone else, so the family has resisted the temptation to document noteworthy visits with photos. *XHVWV ZLOO ¿QG QR ZDOO RI VWDUV DW -RH¶V no room memorializing the famous who have walked through the restaurant doors. All Sawitz has are his memories. Even years later, they amaze him. He has met Muhammad Ali, Coretta Scott King, Sandra Day O’Connor, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George H. W. Bush, Barack Obama, Paul McCartney, Don Shula, Dwyane Wade, Vince Lombardi, Jack Paar, Howard Cosell, Larry King, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Billy Joel, Emeril Lagasse, Tom Brokaw, Billy Crystal, Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Sharon Stone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Madonna, Ted Kennedy, Andy Garcia, Martha Stewart, Bob Griese, Michael Jordan, O.J. Simpson, Siegfried and Roy, Robert Wagner, Warren Burger, Al Gore, the HQWLUH 8QLYHUVLW\ RI 0LDPL IRRWEDOO WHDP under Larry Coker … … and too many others to list here. And stories. He has so many stories. He got a personal call in the mid-1990s from then-Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles, who explained that President Bill Clinton