The Exchanges

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Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85

Q in hospitals and old age homes, and We've got a bunch of questions coming in for you. This is, um, Aaron Tell, um, on Facebook. He asks, how did you pivot your business away from, like, tasting menus to takeaway so quickly? And can takeaway A sustain your, your business? Is that enough? And I, I suspect the answer's no. And also, can locals, local people afford the takeaway menu?

A You know, uh, first off, I mean, just to pivot, I mean, I think we've got a lot of creative chefs here. We've got a lot of great products, and we, You know, we just started cooking the way that we like to cook and the way that we like to eat, you know, ourselves. And, you know, ultimately, no, the business cannot sustain on, you know, takeaway. But between that and, you know, everything that we're doing, you know, we're, we're, we're sort of getting by. And I have this amazing partner named Tony Greenberg, who's just working away, just making sure that everything is set and straight and, you know, keeping the business going and moving forward so that I can really focus on Uh, on the culinary side and, and, and everything that we're, um, you know, that we're doing operationally, uh, in terms of affordability, we really wanted to make the takeaway, you know, menu be affordable, not say, well, we are this three Michelin star restaurant, so we should do this really expensive thing. It just seemed like it was not what we wanted to do and not what guests want, you know, wanted. So, you know, our menus are anywhere between 75 to generally a hundred dollars, but that's for four people. So, You know, it's like, it comes out to 20, 25 dollars, you know, a person, and we just, the idea was not to make money. The idea was to, you know, was to cook, to keep people employed, to do something …

AI assessment note: “ultimately, no, the business cannot sustain on, you know, takeaway.”

Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q So Kyle, once it was clear that you would not be open for business, um, you basically kind of reconstituted some of your staff and went back into the kitchen and tell me what you're doing. What's going on?

A You know, first and foremost, you know, for us, it's about hospitality and we just want to cook and take care of people. It's, um, it's not so much even about the artistry of what we do. It's about a sense of wanting, uh, of a deep sense of hospitality and wanting to take care of people, um, So, you know, when in times like this, when it's sort of apparent that you're not going to be able to take care of your guests in the way that you normally, you know, do, you, you look for other ways that you can, you can take care of people. And because of the fires, um, and because of, uh, the, you know, the huge turmoil that's created in wine country, we had an amazing organization called Sonoma Family Meal that was literally born out of the sort of melee of the fires and all of us trying to get food to those who needed it. You know, we've got a farm full of produce. I've got a restaurant full of food. You know, I've got a team that just wants to, you know, to cook. Um, you know, how about this idea? I'll start reaching out to friends of the restaurant and wineries and investors and great guests that we have and, and see if, um, if they can start funding Sonoma family meal and we'll start preparing food and I'll put everyone to work. Uh, we'll start cooking. And then we started the takeout Um, at night in those meals and cooking for, you know, for families here at, you know, at home who …

AI assessment note: “we had an amazing organization called Sonoma Family Meal... we'll start preparing food”

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