How a Brand New Restaurant Is Surviving Lockdown

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Chef Helen Nguyen's first restaurant, Saigon Social, was on track to open in the middle of March right when the reduced capacity mandates were rolling out. Since then, her operation has become part delivery only business, part charity hub, and she has no idea how long she can keep it going. Eve Batey also joins the show to talk about a lawsuit facing the major delivery companies. Follow Helen on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/miss_hailan/?hl=en Click for more information on Frontline: https://www.frontlinefoods.org/ Hosts: Amanda Kludt (@kludt), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen (@danielgeneen), Producer, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom. Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here. Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: [email protected] About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the world through the lens of food, telling stories via audio, television, digital video, and publications in 24 cities across the US and UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Disney was a motion picture studio in a sea of Hollywood studios doing something nobody else was doing.
0:09.0	Disney's business is memory making. Disney's business is tradition.
0:15.0	But here's the thing about kingdoms.
0:17.0	They don't last forever.
0:18.0	To survive, Disney had to grow.
0:21.0	But has that tremendous growth eroded what made Disney, Disney.
0:24.3	And I don't know the world cares that this is a Disney movie anymore. I'm Joe
0:29.6	Italian. I'm hosting Land of the Giants, the Disney Telepa, from Bulcher on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:35.0	Follow Land of the Giants wherever you listen to hear new episodes every Wednesday. Hi everyone and welcome to Eaters Digest to show about all things food and dining.
0:51.0	I'm Amanda Clute, editor and chief of Eater. And I'm Daniel Janine. I am a producer at Eater and
0:55.9	Amanda this week on the show. We are talking to chef Helen Wynne. She just, oh well,
1:01.2	I don't even know what to say she has a restaurant
1:04.1	Saigon social which she's been testing for a long time she's been doing pop-ups
1:09.6	and you know an amazing in New York City and she's had you know issues opening
1:16.7	it for the past 11 months with gas with everything you can imagine going
1:21.0	wrong with an opening she finally was ready to open it.
1:24.2	And of course, it's like it was,
1:28.0	the final thing that went wrong was coronavirus.
1:30.6	But she has been cooking over the last few weeks for her community, for
1:36.3	hospitals. It sounds incredibly exhausting. I think that's what we keep hearing again and
1:42.3	again and again from
1:43.2	restaurateurs around the country who are doing this hard work and you know trying to
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