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Good Food

Are restaurants over?

The restaurant business has always been like those circus funhouse mirrors. What the diner sees is distorted -- not the reality that owners deal with.

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By Evan Kleiman • Mar 7, 2020 • 56m Listen

The restaurant business has always been like those circus funhouse mirrors. What the diner sees is distorted -- not the reality that owners deal with. Due to a wave of food delivery services and elaborate hot bars in grocery stores, traditional restaurants are having to look at their bottom lines and bob and weave with the times. We also talk about the link between the Academy Award-winning film Parasite and fried chicken, and drinking all things French.

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