Sullivan's Island Winter-Spring 2019-20

29 www.SullivansIslandMagazine.co m | www.SullivansIslandHomes.co m ww .SullivansIslandMagazine.com | ww .SullivansIslandHomes.com 29 I t was in the 1990s on a camping trip that Joe Fischbein , a Charlestonian-turned-Colorado- snowboard-bum, blurted to his friends around a campfire that he was going to open a restaurant. But opening a restaurant isn’t so easy when you have no experience, so he started as a dishwasher. He worked his way up the ranks of a few local restaurants before going in with his friend on a one-off restaurant called Five Loaves Café downtown. “It was $43,000 to buy the owner out of his half. To me, you might as well have said a million dollars,” Fischbein recalled. Today, Fischbein’s partner has moved away, and Fischbein is at the helm of seven restaurants in the Glowfisch Hospitality Group. With his wife and daughter, Fischbein lives on Sullivan’s Island on family property that his grandfather bought in the 1940s. Instead of snowboarding, he now loves paddle boarding and golf carting the island with his family. We Are Sullivan’s Island Photo by Jess Wood.