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Donald Valle
Donald Valle was an American restaurateur who owned and managed the eponymously named Valle's Steak House, from 1933 until his death in 1977.
== Early Years ==
Valle was born in Lettomanoppello, Italy in 1908 and immigrated to the United States from Italy in 1912.〔Kneeland, Paul (September 18, 1977) (69 years old) "Donald Valle, Of Steak House Chain" ''The Boston Globe'', page 73〕 His family settled in Portland, Maine. A year after their move, Valle’s father was killed working on a road construction project in Maine.〔"Valle’s at Portland is Largest Steak House” (September 21, 1952) ''The Boston Sunday Globe'', page A21〕
As a young man, Valle delivered newspapers and shined shoes after school. He graduated from high school in 1927. A local attorney, impressed with his work ethic, paid for Valle's attendance at the Hebron Academy where Valle starred as halfback on the school’s football team.〔 After leaving school, Valle worked in the insurance business and although he was successful, was more interested in starting his own business. His opportunity arose when Franklin Delano Roosevelt became president and repealed Prohibition.〔 In 1933, Valle purchased a small 12 seat café in Portland that had obtained a beer and wine license. Valle quickly built up a clientele and earned enough money to expand. His ability to sell reasonably priced steak dinners in his café convinced him to open a full service restaurant in Portland, not far from his café. Valle’s business philosophy was to sell high quality dinners to the average person.
”I was convinced that by keeping the margin of profit down, I could make up the difference by volume business. I knew the public still liked a good meal at a fair price and that’s what I tried to offer.”〔
Valle’s continued success allowed him to purchase a nightclub in Scarborough, Maine, in 1936 and convert that into his second restaurant.〔Haskell, David (October 17, 1969) "Shined Shoes, Now a Millionaire" ''Cumberland Evening Times'', page 10〕
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