C.J.: Marriage is making restaurant savant Steve Schussler much more mild

Restaurant creator Steve Schussler has a Donald Trump business story that is a showstopper!

However, telling the Trump story — I've been sworn to secrecy — is inconsistent with Schussler's new low-key style.

The restaurant showman has gone so sub rosa that I had to read on Facebook about his recent marriage to Sunhi Ryan, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Schussler Creative.

"I told the rabbi 'I can't believe it actually happened' and the rabbi said I can't believe it either," said the wife, who will be known as Sunhi Ryan Schussler. "That is the line of the century, to have a rabbi [in this case Marcia Zimmerman] say that," smiled Steve.

The word can't isn't in Schussler's vocabulary, and neither has relaxation been a favorite term of the man who sleeps about five hours a night. Learning to fully relax has became a new part of Schussler's demeanor, which underwent a change earlier this year after an executive checkup at the Mayo Clinic. This trip to Mayo was excellent for Schussler's health and might also be good for business, as he made a most unexpected connection. The details of the start of a possible new business relationship are pretty funny. You'll get the full picture from the version on startribune.com, as I had to harshly edit Schussler's retelling of the encounter in the video.

After Schussler's sobering Mayo examination in Rochester, he was given serious pause about the health of his mom, Gloria, who lives in Mexico. Things are looking great for the mother who probably never imagined her committed-bachelor son becoming a married man.

Q: You got married!

Q: I wouldn't have bet money on that, same way I wouldn't have put money on the USA electing a black guy president or that a woman will be elected in 2016.

A: You're very funny. It took me 61 years to find the right woman; a great lady. We've been together 13 years. And in untypically Steve Schussler style, I wanted to make certain that we did it for the sake of us getting married and not necessarily for [the] bigger-than-life [celebration]. So we were kind of low-key about it. We postponed the wedding from last year, as many people know, especially the 325 people we invited. We thought the best way to get married was to not make an announcement. We got married with no fanfare. Very happy.

Q: How's my friend, your mom?

A: Interestingly enough, she's 83 years old. She needed a kidney transplant. She refused to get dialysis. She was promised a kidney by somebody and they went through all the tests and passed and [the donor's] family talked her out of it. So my mother was destined for not so great things and all of a sudden a friend of hers, who is 70 years old, became a match and a donor. Last week, my mother got a kidney transplant. She is out of the hospital in Mexico where she lives. My 83-year-old mother might live another 15 years. THAT is amazing.

Q: How did you get "Wheel of Fortune" down to your restaurant The Boathouse in Disney Springs?

Q: Have you ever met anyone interesting while you were having a colonoscopy, I say, leading the witness?

A: Oh my God. What a place to visualize meeting someone. The most incredible experience I've ever had as I went to Mayo Clinic to get what they call "an executive checkup" and while I'm in this room waiting for colonoscopy [he met a businessman from Abu Dhabi].

Q: What's going on in Shanghai?

A: Well, we opened up this past June in Shanghai, China, at Disneytown, which is equivalent to Orlando's Disney Springs. The shopping, the entertainment, lots of restaurants, soon to have the boats and the dock and it's our second Boathouse. Very, very excited to be at Disney's new theme park in Shanghai. It's an honor.