Part restaurant expansion. Part reality show. Almost all drama. When a restaurant opens, patrons see a brand spanking new sparkling facility and usually everyone is happy and having fun. But the buildup to that opening day is a different story completely, and Jonathan and Brianna Cowan remember some hard times when preparing to launch the Wooden Paddle restaurant in Lemont in 2017. “We looked back at when we built our Lemont location and that had extreme drama,” Jonathan said.