Patrick O'Shaughnessy

I'm thinking about that token and how so many of the lessons behind your stories are relationship, engagement, like your willingness to just freaking engage creativity and community.

With all those in mind, what happens in the backroom at Feeney?

How do you do this thing that you so clearly do, which is to sort of live in constant creative response to your environment?

The bagel story, like the turnaround time on some of these things that then become

legendary interesting fun amazing like they seem to start you seem to have like a very simple trigger to get going and try things what do you attribute that to or how would you encourage people to bake that into how they live because so much of what i see is like it takes people so long to get going in a business in their life how would you encourage people just to go

We talked about L'Oreal.

We talked about Feeney.

Talked a little bit about Missy Pasta.

We haven't talked about Missy.

What lessons stand out to you most from that restaurant, specifically independent of all the other ones?

building a brand how do you get out all the noise and keep it simple and know what works and be honest with what doesn't and don't do that if you think about all of the business lessons you've learned and approaching this with this great fresh mindset variable rent all these creative things that have made this thing go what have been the most surprising business lessons across the whole enterprise that you've learned so far

When I first watched Chef Table, I remember thinking to myself, like, this is the best possible marketing for a restaurant.

Because when you're let in on a story behind a thing and you see a passion that's driven the thing, there's nothing that can make you want to try that thing more than that.

And I feel like our conversation today has been that.

I imagine anyone listening, especially those in New York or traveling to New York, are going to be like, holy shit, like, I need to go try these places and take a bite of this story.

It's been such a total pleasure doing this with you.

I ask everyone the same traditional closing question.

What is the kindest thing that anyone's ever done for you?

I would say Maria, my wife.

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