Episode 3: Carl Ehlenz, Owner of Betty's Pies

In 1983 Betty Lessard, founder and owner of Betty’s Pies sold her business and retired. Little did she know that fifteen years later the phone would ring and Carl Ehlenz, the newest owner of Betty’s Pies would be calling to find out what happened to her famous lost pie recipes.  

At closing, in 1998 Ehlenz was finalizing the paperwork for Betty’s Pies, which included the building, land, and restaurant assets. Ehlenz casually asked the seller, "Do you have the pie recipes?" the seller said she had her recipes but didn’t have Betty's original recipes. Ehlenz started to panic as he discovered that over the previous fifteen years, the recipes had changed. Ehlenz’s and his business partner, Marti Sieber, tracked down Lessard’s phone number and within five minutes Lessard had pulled up to introduce herself.  

That encounter started a relationship that lasted more than fifteen years.