Jodi Kantor
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And the reason they're such hot tickets, I mean, the food is amazing, but they've reengineered the fine dining model to work in a much better way.
They're able to, like, give paid time off to the people they employ.
They're able to give parental leave.
They're off two days a week.
Their lives are much saner.
They are held out as great hopes of people who can sort of fix the restaurant business.
But I talked to Arjav about the early part of his career.
And he talked about the unglamorous learning of craft.
So he became a waiter after college.
He had a college degree from a good school.
He wanted to be a lawyer or a policy person.
But he was undocumented.
And he couldn't get hired.
And he could only get hired in restaurants.
And so he resigned himself to waiting tables.
You know, he wiped up spills.
And he dealt with unhappy customers.
You know, all the hard stuff that waiters do.