José Andrés
speaker
675 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Feb
José Andrés’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's a lot of music. Now there's a lot of comedy. There's a lot of cool people here, a lot of food. There's a lot of good podcasts too. Yeah, yeah. There's a lot here. Many, many great podcasts come out of Austin now. It's a lot changed. That was one of the good things about the pandemic.
A bad thing happened and a lot of good results came out of it where people realized like they don't want to be places that have restrictive governments. And California had a very restrictive government and got a lot worse during the pandemic. But it's the same thing that we were talking about before about power and tyranny, absolute power.
That's crazy. That's an insane number.
Well, I don't know if that number... I know that number. Is it a number?
Yeah, it's a number. The official number? 70%.
Restaurants are one of the hardest business to keep. Right, which is why it's a huge percentage of restaurants closed in the first year. It's like 50%, right? Even a bigger one, I think it's 25%, something like that, that died in the first year or something like that. And only a very small percentage make it past five years.
Yeah, it's like 50% over three years or something I think was what I read.
So restaurant businesses are tough businesses.
Very hard, right? Very hard. Very hard. You want to give people economical prices, but you have overhead, you have staff, you have this, you have that.
And then everybody complains that you overcharge. Of course. But then we need to take care of the people and the employees. Yeah. Need to make a living. But we forget that the vast majority of the restaurants in America are owned by small business owners who many of them are working as hard as they can to make the restaurant successful. And we forget sometimes that, right?
That the business owner in a way is the employee too.
Well, it's another thing. People feel entitled to good restaurants. They don't appreciate the people that serve them. They don't appreciate the people that cook and the people that... you know, provide this experience where you can go to a nice place and you have a wonderful atmosphere and great service. You can really enjoy a meal and enjoy someone's art, which is really what it is.
Anthony Bourdain, that we mentioned before, obviously was a big spokesperson for all the restaurants. Sure. Especially the immigrants. Mm-hmm. Especially the people who farmed. He loves street food. More than everybody.
Yeah.
More than anybody you know. Yeah. More than anybody. But these are the complexities we live. Listen, sometimes it feels, and we saw it during the pandemic, that the people that feed America, the people that feed the world, sometimes it seems, and it's real very often, that they cannot feed themselves. Farmers in California. Farmers in Florida.
People working the farms, picking up okra, strawberries for you and I to enjoy. And they seem that they cannot feed themselves because how little they make. Yeah. And that's the conundrum that we need to be changing in the food industry.
It's a lack of understanding of the effort that's involved in feeding us. We're just accustomed to be able to go to the supermarket, this wealth of abundance. You know, it's almost... It's just a lack of perspective, lack of understanding of the effort that's involved in feeding all these people. And a lack of appreciation and real gratitude.
Gratitude towards these restaurants and these farms and these people that work so hard.
It takes a village to feed the world. To feed America and to feed the world, it takes a village. It's a lot of people. From the fishmongers... Listen, in Washington, D.C., I've been very lucky to be surrounded by Virginia and Maryland. Is that where you live most of the time? Bethesda. I'm a Marylander with an accent. Why did you choose that area? I think the area chose me.
I mean, it was a great school that my wife wanted to. Obviously, I moved to Washington, D.C. in 1993.
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