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

Doma Media.

This is volume 4 of the pre-opened diaries.

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

podcasts.

It's right there.

I think you'll enjoy them.

We recorded this episode about three months into the opening.

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

The restaurant was just getting reviewed.

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

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

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

and pushing it towards the future.

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

working so much.

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

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

trust me or just listen to me.

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

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

a restaurant there.

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