Andrew Friedman
speaker
369 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 2 May
Andrew Friedman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I was at a restaurant recently.
It was a three-star Michelin restaurant.
And they had three different types of wine pairings that they could do for you, where they'd
They pick different wines for different courses of the meal.
And the highest level of experience was one where they would select and open bottles based on your taste and what was being served.
They would open bottles specifically for your table.
And the starting price for that experience was $2,000 per person.
And everybody who comes to that restaurant gets that spiel.
And I can guarantee you they're not having their sommelier, their wine expert,
take the time to not be working the room and tending to other people's needs and refilling their wine glasses, to give this presentation to every table if a certain percentage of guests weren't saying yes to that.
To me, one of the most fascinating jobs in a restaurant is dishwasher.
The dishwashers who come into kitchens here in the United States,
in their teenage years, because it's, you know, a job that a 15 or 16 year old can get.
And they unexpectedly fall in love with the kitchen.
They fall in love with the environment.
And some of the best chefs in this country, that's how they found the kitchen, you know, by accident, and they fell in love with the environment.
I think the amount of coordination that goes on in the kitchen would be surprising to people, you know, when you order a dish, like, for example, in the book, it's a strip loin with
a partially dehydrated tomato, a red wine reduction, and some sorrel leaves, there is not usually, unless it's a very simple dish, those dishes are not being produced by one cook.
Probably one cook is grilling or roasting or whatnot the meat, and another one is finishing the sauce.
Maybe one of them or a third person might be rewarming the dehydrated tomatoes.
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