A year after their move, Valle's father was killed working on a road construction project in Maine.

[2] In 1933, Valle purchased a small 12-seat café in Portland's Woodfords Corner that had obtained a beer and wine license.

"[2]Valle's continued success allowed him to purchase a nightclub in Scarborough, Maine, in 1936 and convert that into his second restaurant.

The restaurant chain employed 1,300 people and had also created and issued over 6,000 of its own credit cards.

[6] Negotiations collapsed, however, as Valle was not satisfied with the level of control that Campbell was planning to exercise over the company after the merger.

Once, when taking a group of restaurant owners through one of his steak houses, Valle pointed out how trim his workers were because they stayed so busy.

[8] At the time of his death, Valle was living in North Miami, Florida and was on a business trip in the Boston area.