Mission district restaurateur Melody Stein owns Mozzeria with her husband, Russ Stein. She told her business-ownership dream story in the New York Times on Saturday:

My parents have owned restaurants in Hong Kong and San Francisco throughout my life. So it was reasonable that I dreamed of running my own someday. I wasn’t going to let the fact that I was born deaf deter me from realizing that dream.

Read the entire article here.