I thought David Chang was being too effusive cause she was a female chef. As in to show how supportive he is of women chef. But at the same time she was also doing a lot of self promotion about how great she was at cooking and how often people complimented her.
Thatās pretty much what I got from the interview too.
Okay listened to it again
I try to not influence myself too much with other peopleās work. Itās something as an artist, because I do think of us as artistsā¦ I really try to keep it separate from my creative process.
Because I like that somehow Iāve tapped into true inspiration in my brain when I create food and stuff and I really love that about myself that I donāt follow trends or do anythingā¦
lol barf
āBut thatās enough talking about me. Letās talk about you. What do you think about me?ā
Chang is seemingly always effusive toward his peers and friends after I listened to his podcast with Rene Redzepi, Jessica Largey, and Jeremy Fox.
Talking from personal experience unfortunately Iāve seen shit shows like this where we were losing 30K per month and this is a restaurant that was only 60 seats with much cheaper rent and overhead.
So thereās a possibility if they arenāt smart and depending on how much rent+tax+utilities+services it could be around 50K per month loss or 600K per year and thats before they have to pay their sales tax bill.
Thatās actually a lot less than I anticipated. The Russo brothers could sustain Simone forever.
Iām just estimating here it really depends on how lean they run it and how many people they keep on staff. Iād say if they run lean 50K is reasonable but if they keep everyone staffed then it could definitely jump to the 100K mark since labor is usually the largest expense.
But Simone is in Arts District. And Arts District rent isnāt exactly cheap. Even the mega-rich will consider cutting their losses when hemorrhaging becomes noticeable.
If their production offices are upstairs, $600k/year for a private event space/club house that doubles as a restaurant during its downtime aināt bad. Add on overall tax savings and losses would decrease further.
Iāve seen directors/producers blow more money on less.
I doubt Joe is concerned about profits from Simone. In fact, itās probably just the opposite.
#BecauseTaxWriteOff
The list of perks and write offs are long.
Ew, ew, ew. I feel like I need to take a shower after reading that article.
Even the mega-rich will consider cutting their losses when hemorrhaging becomes noticeable.
In the āregularā corporate world, yes. But some of the folks in the entertainment industry are presumably not good at managing their $ā¦
Theyāll let it bleed for as long as the tax issue is beneficial.
And look what happened Dave Beran is opening a larger 2nd restaurant after having started small.
Hope the next place will be better than Dialogue, which I thought was an immense disappointment, given his kitchen pedigree.
immense disappointment
What disappointed you? Iām curious since Iām still on the fence about going for the first time.
To be honest I dined at Next when they were doing the Alinea 2010-2015 menu and I thought it was quite terrible. And I havenāt been to dialogue but it looks to be more of the same modernist contrived food.
Forgot about this little nugget:
I made the services at manresa the perfect machine by the time I left I was bored with like how perfect everything went.