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The Original Spearfish Breakfast House
Bob Godich has seen it all. The Arizona native, former fire department worker, and long-time chef says he attended “the school of hard knocks.”
not before receiving the sign he had prayed for.
“One of my former customers and dear friend Jeff Seward reached out to me right before we left and said, ‘I’d like to help invest in a restaurant in Spearfish if you would be open to it,’” remembered Godich. After spending the month of December with family, Godich returned to Spearfish, started the process of getting an LLC, and obtained the keys to the new restaurant space on January 1, 2023. “We walked into a building that was totally blank— nothing in it except holes in the walls, no kitchen or anything,” he said.
Growing up without a mother, Godich learned how to cook from a young age and hasn’t stopped since.
Managing the Eagle Bar and Steakhouse in Deadwood and the Aladdin Café in Aladdin, WY are just two of Godich’s ventures in the last five years.
After leaving the Aladdin Café in November 2022, Godich thought about retiring.
“I told God, ‘Show me a sign. Either I retire or I start another restaurant,’” he said.
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With the holidays approaching, Godich and his wife, Laurie , left to visit their grandson in Phoenix, but
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