Andrew Friedman
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369 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 2 May
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and how restaurants track how dishes perform.
Well, this will sound very corny, but I believe it is true.
They don't want to do it any other way.
It's a very hard profession.
It's a very hard business.
They would love an easier way to go about it.
They simply don't believe in serving their guests inferior ingredients.
Well, the bar is huge.
The bar is huge.
I had a chance to interview a guy named Andy Bursch a few years ago, who for a long time, way back when, was the restaurant critic for Gourmet Magazine.
And he actually had been turned off to restaurants because he felt like they were so bar-driven.
that they were scarcely about the food.
I think that's a bit of an overstatement, but the markup on alcohol, even just the markup on wine, which I wouldn't consider the bar, I mean, that's something a lot of people order at the dinner table, is significant.
There are often certain dishes that are more profitable than others.
It could be different in different restaurants.
In a restaurant that doesn't make its own pasta, a pasta dish could cost,
just a couple of bucks and you might be able to charge $16 for it.
But if they make their own pasta, that's a significant commitment in terms of labor,
and in terms of the refrigeration kind of system and climate you need to keep it the way it needs to be maintained.
And that would be an entirely different story.
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