What will happen to the Paris restaurants?
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Guy Griffin from Cafe Oberkampf and Cafe Mericourt joins the show to talk about the restaurant industry in Paris and how it'll cope during the lockdown... and then what'll come next.
He discusses his rethinking of the hospitality industry, the government's "chômage partiel" for staff members (part-time unemployment), and his plans to reopen.
And he says the days of sitting in a Paris cafe all day with one coffee and a cake may be over...
For the facts: The government has given May 11th as the end of lockdown, but that doesn't apply for cafes and restaurants, many of which have already been reworking their strategies for home delivery and click and collect options.
Oh yes, and a tromp-l'oeil is an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create an optical illusion.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, you're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. This is a show all about Paris, currently being recorded from my very small apartment in Montmart, but how could you complain? There aren't many places in the world. I'd rather be locked down than in the centre of Monmouth in Paris. But we'll talk about that a little bit later today. |
| 0:22.4 | Before we begin, I want to say this show is brought to you by the Patreon supporters and no one else. |
| 0:27.2 | The Patreon supporters who, thanks to their small monthly pledge, become members and help me do this as a career, really. |
| 0:34.4 | So thanks to all you guys who've signed up lately, patrion.com slash the |
| 0:37.8 | earful tower, loads of perks, including the audiobook every day. I'll talk about that at the |
| 0:41.8 | end of the episode. But particularly, I want to send this episode out to new subscribers, including |
| 0:47.9 | Megan Raw, thanks for signing up, and to email Johansson in Sweden, whose girlfriend says he's the coolest and kindest person I know I'm so lucky to be with him. |
| 0:57.9 | That's a very nice thing to say. More about all that. Well, not so much about Emil and his girlfriend, Sandra. |
| 1:03.2 | More about Patreon and the audiobook and all that kind of stuff at the end of the episode. |
| 1:07.8 | Let's talk about today's topic, which is Paris restaurants. And you're |
| 1:12.0 | going to hear the voice of a friend of the show and a friend of mine, Guy Griffin. He runs the |
| 1:16.8 | Cafe Oberconf and Café Merico. If you've been listening to this show for any period of time, |
| 1:22.1 | you'll have heard his voice on it. He was, well, we talk a little bit about our background together |
| 1:27.3 | in this episode, actually, |
| 1:28.9 | but he's been on a bunch of episodes. I've had events at his cafes, and he even took part in |
| 1:35.1 | the latest pub quiz in which he did pretty well, I've got to say. In fact, he hinted that in the |
| 1:40.5 | next pub quiz, he might write a section and offer a prize if you don't know what I'm |
| 1:44.5 | talking about every Saturday 8 p.m Paris pub quiz live on YouTube but that's not the topic it's |
| 1:50.3 | restaurants I was really interested in what's going to happen to the Paris restaurants as we |
| 1:55.7 | come out of this lockdown what's happening with them now and what the future will be like for them. |
| 2:01.6 | So I gave Guy a Zoom call down where he is in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, beautiful town in |
| 2:07.6 | the south of France, and we have a little bit of chat about it. |
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