Published on: March 8, 2017 at 8:45 AM

By Mike Kittrell

Salads are good for you. Sometimes they even put you on the path to the semifinals for “Best Chef: South” from the James Beard Foundation Awards.

That was the case for Bill Briand. He was working as a food runner at a restaurant when the salad guy walked out. Briand, then 18, jumped on the station and never looked back.

Bill Briand of Fisher’s Upstairs in Orange Beach a James Beard semifinalist from Alabama NewsCenter on Vimeo.

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