So I have so many questions to ask you about so many things, but I'm gonna start out by asking

If we cannot talk about the cheesecake factory

You my happiest moments in life have occurred at that place the last birthday

I was able to celebrate in person with people. I was at the cheesecake factory

I understand that you used to work there when you were a college student briefly. I was a hostess. Oh

My goodness

This is chef and food star and internet personality

Solar a waitly and being a hostess there is tough. It is a difficult difficult job. Explain. Oh, it's just it's so busy the dining room is so big

I don't know if I've worked at a busier restaurant honestly

cheesecake factory and

So you may not know so love from her brief career at the cheesecake factory

But a lot of you probably do recognize so from a different kind of kitchen

Yeah, and even like the design aesthetic it is not at all pretty, but it's soothing. It's like this

bloated

decaying Italian Renaissance vibe. I don't know all of it. I just think is this cultural study in

excessive

Americana and it suits me every time

It's like our Colosseum when you walk into the cheesecake factory, you know the decor gold the fake marble

I

Feel like there was always like different shades of taupe

You're listening to it's been a minute from NPR. I'm Sam Sanders and my guest today is solar a waitly and

That kitchen that I was alluding to earlier was talking about Bonapetit's popular test kitchen video series

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