The Unique Challenge of Reopening a Massive Restaurant Space

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Chef George Chen of China Live talks about pandemic pivots and reopening his 10,000 square foot restaurant in San Francisco. Get in touch with the hosts: Amanda Kludt (@kludt), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen (@danielgeneen), Producer, Eater [email protected] 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 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 I'm Amanda Clute editor-in-chief eater.
0:52.4	My name is Daniel Janine. I am a big-time producer at Eder.
0:56.8	Amanda, welcome to the program.
0:59.1	Why are you laughing me? No, I'm not. You laugh.
1:03.0	You're at... You're... You're... You... That was an accurate introduction to yourself.
1:07.0	So, uh, Daniel, what do we have this week on the show?
1:11.0	Oh, I think first you should introduce Simone as a guest on the show this week.
1:15.4	Yes so this week on the show you will hear some background noise from my daughter who is in
1:22.4	the room with me today because you know what
1:24.1	Daniel we're still working from home and what she keeps saying is I can't
1:27.5	wait for a vegan EMP exactly she cannot wait but Daniel what's up on the show today?
1:35.0	Well, this week we have George Chen,
1:38.0	who is the head honcho of China Live, a mega Chinese restaurant in in San Francisco with like
1:50.6	how many 14 different concepts inside?
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