Vivian Ku

Chef and Owner, Pine & Crane · 1 appearance on the record.

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Vivian Ku is a chef and restaurateur who established the Los Angeles Taiwanese eateries Pine & Crane and Joy. Her menus reflect her family's Taiwanese culinary background and incorporate produce sourced directly from her family's farm in Bakersfield, California.

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1 prediction · 1 assertion · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertion are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

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Prediction Held up

Ku predicts ghost kitchens will capture larger restaurant industry market share

“I think ghost kitchens were already part of the industry before this happened, and I think will be a bigger part of the industry.”

Vivian Ku Mar 25, 2021 ▶ 16:45 How I Built Resilience: Vivian Ku, Restaurateur

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What they said5 Episodes1

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Prediction Held up

Ku predicts ghost kitchens will capture larger restaurant industry market share

“I think ghost kitchens were already part of the industry before this happened, and I think will be a bigger part of the industry.”

Vivian Ku Mar 25, 2021 ▶ 16:45 How I Built Resilience: Vivian Ku, Restaurateur

Opinion

Ku: Pandemic real estate vacancies create prime restaurant opening opportunities

“I think, sadly, there might be a lot of inventory available on the market, so it is a good time to start a place”

Vivian Ku Mar 25, 2021 ▶ 18:58 How I Built Resilience: Vivian Ku, Restaurateur

Insight

Ku: Taiwanese food is organically designed to appeal to the masses

“I'll always like to say that Taiwanese food is organically designed to appeal to the masses because of the way, you know, history and migration, you know, with all food kind of like shaped its, Culinary history and where it's going.”

Vivian Ku Mar 25, 2021 ▶ 4:03 How I Built Resilience: Vivian Ku, Restaurateur

Disclosure

Ku borrowed from family and her partner to launch first restaurant

“I had borrowed money from my parents, my aunts, my boyfriend at the time, who's now my husband.”

Vivian Ku Mar 25, 2021 ▶ 9:46 How I Built Resilience: Vivian Ku, Restaurateur

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Ku: Breakfast-only restaurant pop-ups are unprofitable on morning service alone

“It's definitely not profitable on running breakfast alone, so we'll have to figure out something there in the longer term.”

Vivian Ku Mar 25, 2021 ▶ 16:39 How I Built Resilience: Vivian Ku, Restaurateur

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
How I Built Resilience: Vivian Ku, Restaurateur	Mar 25, 2021	14m

Vivian Ku

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