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In restaurants, we have this beautiful opportunity or perhaps even a responsibility to create these magical worlds in a world that needs more magic.

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On this episode, Restaurant 2, or Wilgidera, talks about hospitality and what it's like to start a restaurant from scratch.

It was electrifyingly fun and exciting and well-exhausting and challenging.

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What do we want when we go to a restaurant? Good food, yes. Good service. Sure, that too.

But Restaurant Tour Wilgidera says it's more than that.

He believes that what people really crave is human warmth served through the medium of delicious food.

In other words, great hospitality.

Wilgidera has been part of the New York City restaurant scene for what seems like forever as general manager and then co-owner of the fabled 11 Madison Park

and co-owner of the trendy Nomad restaurants.

He is also the author of five books, the latest of which is a memoir of sorts titled Unreasonable Hospitality.

The remarkable power of giving people more than they expect.

He joins me today to talk about his life, his book, and his remarkable career.

Wilgidera, welcome to Design Matters.

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