Gustave Laclair is Naomi's jovial, cheerful father who enjoys cooking, fine wine and making sure his family is happy. He originally came to The United States on a college study abroad program in the early seventies and thus he began his journey of wanting to one day become a famous chef.  However, fate had other plans as he met a woman by the name of Nevah King during his senior year of college. They fell madly in love and during Nevah's final year of college he proposed to her and married her a few months before their first daughter Naomi was born.  As time went on Gustave opened his own restaurant and has employed his wife and daughters as workers. 

He is very protective over all his daughters and doesn't think that any man they bring home will ever be good enough for them. He worries more about Naomi than Judy and Karen due to her being the oldest.  he does, however, allow the girls to grow up at their own pace but still spoils them much to his wife's dismay.