What's happening, brother? How are you? Good to have you. I have enjoyed your restaurant many times. My favorite steak restaurant in all of Los Angeles. Thank you.

It's one of the reasons why I wanted to bring you in here because this is a really crazy time for restaurants and I mean that's basically that that's the gist of it. This is a crazy time.

It's it's bananas it's absolutely crazy trying to just get a handle on it. It's just

overwhelming so for me it's just head down and cook try to help people you know that are in need and

uh... and then we'll figure it out later

well i know you've been doing a lot of cooking for first responders and for hospitals

and what what have you been doing with your time now that this is

Well, it really first started where basically everything just everybody was just staring at each other and saying what is going on what's happening and I had I

didn't lay off any of my employees and it's all happening everybody else is closing up

shop and you know I'm just overwhelmed as a business owner, what am I going to do?

And I actually had my GM come up to me and, you know, because I'm trying to figure it out.

Everybody's asking what's going to happen?

My GM came up to me and says, hey,

listen, you know, we're with you. We know you didn't create the coronavirus. You know,

you do what you have to do and we know your heart's in the right place.

And I was just like, I just like kind of just let out of breath and I'm like, okay, well I appreciate

you saying that and then I was just head down, business with it and we had a cut back 90% of the

staff and we were just like just cook didn't know who we're gonna who's gonna buy it or anything it's just

crazy so would you just tell everybody it's the steakhouse is called APL and it's in

LA in what is that like the theater district what is that called

yeah it's in the heart of Hollywood Hollywood and Vine yeah and it's right

next to the Pentages theater which we and what's ironic was it was literally

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