I'd graduated high school. I wasn't going to college. This was it. There was no plan B.

It was music or nothing?

No plan B.

Dorothea Bon Jovi, John Bon Jovi. This is your new place.

Welcome, J.BJ Kitchen.

People know you for your rock and roll.

Do you want rock and roll to be your legacy?

Or do you kind of want this to be your legacy?

Oh no, I, you know, it's all encompassing.

I mean, what we do philanthropically, it's not stereotypical rock and roll star stuff, you know.

It's not.

It's not.

And I didn't care about that.

This has nothing to do with that.

But I tell people oftentimes when we're able to do this and volunteer in our restaurants or if you come and volunteer, you'll feel the same kind of high.

And I'm not exaggerated. When you leave a restaurant that you do when I get off working,

because truthfully you leave buzzing about what you've done for the day.

We opened our first Soul Kitchen 10 years ago in Red Bank, New Jersey, after Superstorm Sandy,

and the second one in Tom's River,

because those were the people most impacted by it.

Now what we realize is that there were kids in colleges that were hungry.

The sole kitchens are a community restaurant where the model is you pay it forward.

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