Here is, essentially, almost the entire crew of Eddie's Cafe and groceries for the 2014 season. Well, excluding a few people who have already managed to leave.

These people became my family. We went through so much during this nearly one-third of a year. And I really don't want this program to end. I want to start all over again, from that very turning point when I arrived here and met the first part of my foreign family. Now it's hard to recall the first steps in the kitchen and the first acquaintances with those around me, but the funniest moments of this summer keep spinning endlessly in my head. There are many of them, and I have no doubt there will be more.

And, of course, the summer was memorable not only for work, but for these freaks. Yes, exactly, freaks. There are about 30 of us here, absolutely different, completely unlike each other, and crazy in our own way. Yes, it's never boring here, especially in the kitchen: laughter, music, and fun almost all day long. And in truth, we didn't live here in harmony and love. We endlessly teased each other all day, non-stop, but that was the essence of all these well-coordinated relationships in our team. No, not a team, a family. Yes, exactly. An international family of freaks. What could be sweeter?

To help you understand, 'freaks' is when one of the managers treated me so well that he offered for me to move to his native Illinois and arrange a fake marriage so I could get a green card and stay in the States. Even though he is absolutely traditionally oriented. We were just good friends.

P.S. And the bear below is, in fact, Eddie himself, after whom, apparently, the restaurant was named. (P.S. from 2017 - the restaurant was not named after him, but if I'm not mistaken, he was just the owner of Eddie back in the mid-20th century).