Worker of the Week cooks for 78 hours a week

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FALLBROOK – Gomez Leon is a chef at Fallbrook Café, located at 739 East Mission Road. Leon has been with the restaurant since 2005. He moved from Guanajuato Mexico 2000 and then to Fallbrook in 2005. He is currently traveling from Los Angeles where his family lives to Fallbrook 2 to 3 times a week and stays over in Fallbrook the other days. He loves working for the restaurant so much “it’s worth the trip,” he said. He works six days a week, 13 hour days. He has been cooking for a total of 35 years and loves it to no end. He’s hoping to someday open an Italian or Mediterranean restaurant here in Fallbrook or in La Jolla. His desires are to spend quality time while he is home with his wife Josefa and his children, Diana, who is 22, and Brando who is 20. When he has time off, he enjoys going to horse and cattle rodeos shows and plays soccer.