Keeping a Restaurant Alive with Tony Bezsylko

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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What does it take to keep a restaurant alive in the time of coronavirus? In March, restaurants across the country closed their doors in order to combat the spread of Covid-19. Left behind is an industry that is largely made up of small business owners scrambling to figure out how they can stay afloat. This week, Tony Bezsylko, co-owner of the local Chicago restaurant Cellar Door Provisions, sits down to talk about his passion for baking, how he started his own restaurant, and how he and his partners are managing to keep their restaurant alive in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. Cellar Door Provisions Is the Perfect Restaurant That is Positive It Could Be Better (Bon Appetit)

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0:00.0	I thought I could deliver the news really well to the staff.
0:04.0	And then when I got to the point where I had to say that like we were going to be close,
0:08.3	I just started like crying.
0:10.2	Because the whole idea behind the restaurant was just it's a place to go.
0:15.8	It's a good place to go.
0:17.8	And yeah, the food's weird.
0:20.2	Sometimes it's amazing and your thing.
0:21.9	Sometimes it's not amazing and not your thing.
0:23.8	And sometimes the people are, you know, amazing and your thing.
0:27.9	Sometimes not, but it's like a good overall a good place to go.
0:31.0	Like, you know, you like it there.
0:33.0	The idea of it just being empty was just like, it took it out of me.
0:37.4	Because the place just, and talking about it now, I mean, the place is just not supposed
0:41.1	to be empty.
0:42.9	Hello and welcome to Wise Is Happening with me, your host Chris Hayes.
0:54.6	Once again, in the quarantine closet now in September coming up on month six, we're
0:59.8	about to hit the six month quarantine period, COVID life disruption.
1:05.2	Maybe going to be back in the studio at some point in a few weeks, but still still doing
1:09.1	it here.
1:10.1	And, you know, fall is making, I think a lot of us think about like the concept of back
1:15.5	to normal because the fall time tends to be a transition time.
1:19.5	It also tends to be like a natural time in the rhythms of our lives from the time that
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