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Harry Cheadle

Harry Cheadle

Sep 17, 2026

7:43
What more could you want? Happy birthday.
7:52
Hey, Brandy, this is Harry Cheadle.
7:55
The place where you should go for your birthday is Rainier Restaurant, which is a Vietnamese restaurant in the South End.
8:02
And it is famous, like it is like nationally famous.
8:05
I think Anthony Bourdain ate there for its giant fried catfish, which is really flaky skin.
8:11
And I believe you can make little like rolls out of the fish.
8:16
And it is a great place for like big celebrations because they have that catfish.
5:47
The Normie has a copa and burrata and hot honey.
5:51
Yes.
5:51
So it's like meaty.
5:52
It's cheesy.
5:53
It's spicy.
5:54
It's sweet.
5:54
It's great.

9 MINS LATER

14:31
They're switching it up.
5:03
And I'm curious what you all have seen about this and how you're thinking about it.
5:08
I think what you're referring to is the restaurant group that owns it, Sea Creatures, put out like a big statement talking about we instituted this change to a service charge model because we were in like some financial trouble.
5:21
And these workers are striking and they're saying really nasty things about us online.
5:25
Here is like what our workers make.
5:29
And they posted like, you know, anonymized compensation from 2025 of some of their workers.
5:34
And it was like one bartender was made like $90,000.
5:37
dollars in a year and I think the implication is like we're taking care of our employees like our compensation is like good for the service industry trying to put some numbers to that but also like as someone who's been part of a union before like you're allowed to join a union and unionize and strike even if like you have like good wages, even if you're not like at the poverty line.
10:47
Harry, what has stood out to you about this?

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