Humm: Only 10 of 300 staff volunteered for EMP's relief kitchen
Daniel Humm · How I Built Resilience: Live with Kyle Connaughton and Daniel Humm · May 28, 2020 · at 16:20
Chef Daniel Humm discusses the response from Eleven Madison Park's furloughed staff when attempting to convert the three-star Michelin restaurant into an emergency relief kitchen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“Well, really, I got 10 responses out of 300 people, which was quite, you know, that, that was a difficult part.”
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