Stephen Starr learned how to hustle on the Atlantic City boardwalk. Now, he's back.

The Atlantic City boardwalk hums with trams transporting tourists to and from buzzing casinos and the historic Steel Pier.

But for restaurateur Stephen Starr, this stretch of wooden planks is more than a backdrop for a family summer vacation. It's where he learned how to do business.

Starr worked three summers as a teenager in one of the boardwalk shops, thrusting anything he could — T-shirts, trinkets — into tourists' clamoring hands.

"I learned everything about business from being on that boardwalk," he said. "You saw the best and the worst of people, the best and worst of yourself. And we worked 14 hours a day, six days a week."

Now, the James Beard Award-winning restaurateur who helped turn Philadelphia into a dining destination is going back to his roots by conceptualizing two new