TASTE bite-size: You can still open in New York

[upbeat music] In America, the, the best food city is Los Angeles by far-

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in terms of like just diversity of cuisine and, and really cool, um, neighborhoods that have like really like concentrated like five or six restaurants.

Like, like it may be in the South Bay and be like Oaxacan cuisine, it might be Koreatown, it might be Little Japan.

Um, but definitely New York is the best restaurant city in America.

I think we as, uh, as New Yorkers, we understand, um, some of the major tenets of hospitality and restaurants.

So like great cuisine, great space, like that, like has mood and vibe.

Uh, you know, of course, like having service that makes sense.

I think we're very impatient when service does not make sense as New Yorkers, and, and restaurant and operators, restaurants operators will be told that very quickly.

We have history too, obviously.

Now, a lot of history has gone away in the past decade, so that's one thing that we don't have anymore.

Plenty of classic places have gone away, but we have-- We know this is where pizza was basically invented.

You know, we have an incredible Chinatown in three boroughs.

We have Koreatown.

But then you look at places like London that I think in terms of creativity, because of costs of, of, of, of operation, operating costs, they-- it's, it's, there's more creativity happening in London.

It's obvious.

You know, you look at menus in New York, and you're seeing like a seared fish in a, in a, um, you know, a hard seared fish in a, in a, like a herby sauce.

You're seeing like, you know, steak, steak for one, steak for two.

You're seeing a lot of the same things, whole fish perhaps, like depending on the cuisine, and of course, chicken.

You're seeing lots of roast chicken.

So like, there's just like a lot of like uniformity with the menu structures in New York that you're probably not seeing as much in, in London.

New York is not the only city.

I mean, San Francisco, but op- OpEx costs are, are massive as well, and that's mostly because of real estate.

You know, our, our...