Steve Jobs'' father boasts of having met "great tipper" son unknowingly
Submitted by Jamie Williamson on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 10:35
Washington, Oct 25 : Steve Jobs''s father has boasted that he had met the Apple chief executive at his restaurant, who he described as a "great tipper", without realising that he was talking about his son, Jobs disclosed before his death.
Jobs, who was adopted, was long thought to have never met his real father, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, a Syrian restaurateur and casino owner, who lived near the Apple''s headquarters in California.
Last week it emerged that in fact, after finding Joanne Schieble, his mother, and the novelist Mona Simpson, his sister, in the 1980s, Jobs also discovered he had already met Jandali at his restaurant.
Jobs' biographer Walter Isaacson has said that the former revealed he had met his father in his restaurant.
"When I was looking for my biological mother, obviously I was looking for my biological father at the same time. I learned a little bit about him, and I didn''t like what I learned," he told Walter Isaacson.
"It turns out he managed or owned a restaurant, and I was in the restaurant once or twice, and I remember meeting the owner, who was from Syria. I shook his hand, and he shook mine," The Telegraph quoted him, as saying.
However, Jobs chose not to meet him again, and instead sent Simpson to a cafe where Jandali had begun working after leaving the restaurant.
"I asked her to not tell him that we''d ever met, and not tell him anything about me," Jobs said.
"Mona goes to the coffee shop, meets this guy Jandali who''s running it, who says among other things when she asks, how sorry he is. Then he said that he had had another child. Mona said: ''What happened to him?'' and he said: ''Oh, I don''t know, we''ll never hear from him again''," Jobs told Isaacson.
Jandali then said that he wished Simpson could have seen him running his old Mediterranean restaurant, which he said was "one of the best in the Silicon Valley".
"Everyone used to eat there," he said. "Even Steve Jobs."
As Simpson stayed silent but "looked shocked", Jandali added: "Yeah, he was a great tipper!", according to Isaacson. (ANI)
