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The Dave Chang Show

Majordomo Pre-opening Diaries, Vol. 4 | The Dave Chang Show (Ep. 5)

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Food, Arts, Society & Culture

4.88.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Chef and Momofuku founder Dave Chang sits down with HBO and The Ringer’s Bill Simmons to discuss launching the Majordomo restaurant in Los Angeles (3:12), the reasons for its immediate success (20:55), and hit menu items (35:49). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Day of Changchou on the Ringer Podcast Network presented by Major

0:23.5

Doma Media.

0:24.7

This is volume 4 of the pre-opened diaries.

0:27.3

If you haven't listened to volumes 1, 2, 3, check it out on however you listen to

0:31.4

podcasts.

0:32.4

It's right there.

0:33.4

I think you'll enjoy them.

0:34.2

We recorded this episode about three months into the opening.

0:37.4

I just come back from the Olympics and I was getting situated again.

0:42.5

The restaurant was just getting reviewed.

0:44.9

National critics and local critics had reviewed us so we were gearing up for the critic review

0:49.2

process and that's a very scary, terrifying time.

0:54.0

But what was most difficult about this period was trying to get that momentum from the pre-opening

1:00.0

and pushing it towards the future.

1:02.3

You're like constantly improving, getting better and better and that's hard because everyone's

1:06.3

working so much.

1:07.8

We're also talking about actual menu items and the actual understanding of a restaurant.

1:13.6

I think for me, the most interesting part about this podcast is when I'm trying to say

1:18.6

trust me or just listen to me.

1:20.8

It's not for me telling the person that I know what I'm talking about.

1:24.9

For instance, I just came back from Toronto when we're reopening up the third floor of

1:28.8

a restaurant there.

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