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Article: Steve Marshall: president, The Marshall Associates Inc.: Oakland, Calif.(Consultant All-Stars)
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- Foodservice Equipment & Supplies
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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In part because foodservice design consulting is such a new profession, few practitioners have had the opportunity to grow up in the business. One exception is Steve Marshall, who was able to observe his parents developing a prototypical example of a design consultancy, Bert Marshall & Elizabeth Marshall Inc., from his earliest childhood.
"My dad began designing kitchens, laundries and laboratories for architects in Los Angeles and San Francisco in the mid-1950s, making him one of the first to make a living in this field," observed Marshall, who was born in 1946 in Santa Maria, Calif. "By the time I was 10, dad had started his own firm with mom as business manager ...