For the kitchen-less, restaurants remained open — For the kitchen-less, restaurants remained open It is impossible to know if restaurants will reopen without knowing why they opened, why they stayed open during the 1918 flu pandemic, why they exist at all. Our world is round and so is time more of a circle than a straight line…

Why Amazon Can’t Get it Right — What does it mean to be competitive when you create customers who can’t be satisfied and workers who are invisible? The thing that disturbed me most about Jeff Bezos’ statement before Congress last week is not what might have disturbed most, but as a sales person (I work in food…

In fetishizing the heat of the kitchen, the circus continues to sell bread — In fetishizing the heat of the kitchen, the circus continues to sell bread If a restaurant can afford to hire a PR company, does it need the press? Maybe only in the state of competition that is New York City or Los Angeles. …

The only things deterred are tax and good will — The only things deterred are tax and good will “A tax is a levy collected for general government services. A fee is levy collected to provide a service that benefits the group of people from which the money is collected. A penalty is a levy collected with the express aim…

The power of prevention, if only we bought it — The power of prevention, if only we bought it Too often it is only in times like this that health departments receive the funding they actually need. In so many ways, NYC’s 2020–2021 budget has not met this moment. While the city covers 92% of the NYPD’s close to $6…

In the absence of guidelines, restaurants are left to write their own — In the absence of guidelines, restaurants are left to write their own A person without a mask is an egg without a shell. This will mean something to cooks who spend their days saving us from bad eggs. We, the people, are an unpasteurized yolk. One crack of a mask…