Big Appetite

Patrick/26/Sarasota
Joe Seidensticker/29/Sarasota

The entrepreneurial tussle, when executives struggle with delegation, has the Seidensticker brothers in a death-lock grip.

The brothers, Joe and Patrick, are co-owners and managers of Libby's Cafe + Bar, a popular restaurant in the Hillview neighborhood of Sarasota. They run the restaurant in conjunction with their father, longtime restaurateur Steve Seidensticker; their sister, Lisa Seidensticker; and business partner Jeff Greco. Joe Seidensticker, 29, and Patrick Seidensticker, 26, are the faces, and daily decision makers of the operation. Those are roles they have grown into since 2008, when the Seidenstickers bought and renovated the former Fred's Restaurant.