The Restaurant From The Future

Planet Money

NPR

Business, News

4.6 • 29.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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With over 5.5 million workers unemployed or furloughed, no other industry has been hit harder than restaurants. Yet one guy is thinking about expanding. Huh? | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:08.9	When I pulled up in front of his restaurant, Yang-Zao came out to meet me in the street.
0:13.3	Hey.
0:14.3	How's it going?
0:15.3	Good, good.
0:16.3	How are you?
0:17.3	I'm all right.
0:18.3	Nice to meet you.
0:19.3	Yeah, I think you're coming.
0:20.3	Yeah, I was like, where am I going to park?
0:21.3	Yeah.
0:22.3	I was late because I had spent 25 minutes driving around trying to find legal parking.
0:27.2	Yang, hopefully, was like, it's fine, just park in front of the restaurant.
0:31.6	Even though the science says otherwise, Yang gave me permission because there was no
0:36.0	one else around to say no.
0:38.6	Recently, he's become kind of like the boss of West 41st Street in Manhattan.
0:43.2	Yang-Zao is, in fact, a boss.
0:45.8	He's the CEO of Jun-Z.
0:47.9	It's a small chain of Chinese food restaurants that serve not fast food, not casual dining,
0:53.1	but the offspring of those two things, known as fast casual.
0:57.0	When I walked up to the door, I wasn't sure if he was letting customers in.
1:00.0	You let people in or no?
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