The Hosts

Dave's musical career took off the moment he joined the Drum and Bugle Corps. Studying piano under the watchful eye of his mother, Rita, Dave learned quickly how to nudge the stove timer forward every time he heard his loving mum head for the bathroom. Thirty minutes turned into twenty if things went right for the young maestro.

Today, Dave is a self-described professional busker with around three hours of guitar and harmonica material in his back pocket, plus another three hours on piano. He reckons he's spent more hours enjoying the practice than counting it.

He picked up the guitar at the tender age of 20 and quickly became a party favourite with waiters and waitresses looking for the next best thing to karaoke, live. Dave's version was plenty of drinks, a DX7 keyboard, and a few spare mics for the girls to sing into — because girls love to sing live.

Bryan's story with Dave goes back the same fifty years — the two joined the Edmonton Drum and Bugle Corps together in 1974, alongside a third friend everyone knew as Rosenburger. It's been a running double act ever since.

Their business careers took off like a rocket under the guidance of Ernie Gerald, owner of the once-famous Ernie's Steak Pit, where both Bryan and Dave worked for over ten years. As a dishwasher at Ernie's, it took Bryan just two years to end up running the show at night — while Dave had his face in a pail of shrimp in the fridge, knowing full well his best buddy wouldn't fire him.

Bryan's career as a chef in Edmonton was built over the decades that followed: Head Chef for Northlands in Edmonton, owner of his own restaurant, Bailey's, and founder of Creative Quality Catering — the business Bryan Goulet is best known for today. He placed second in all of Canada as an apprentice in his second year, and has never been shy about stepping outside the box and doing things his own way.

Today Bryan brings the cooking tip segment to every episode of Hospitality Plus — plain, useful, and always something you can actually use at home that night. His steak sauce is famous among his Edmonton clientele, and his laugh is infectious among family and friends.