Sorry to be the grammar police but it's spelled restaurateur. For some weird reason there is no "n".

I had a chance to eat there in mid 2000s, it was a very unique experience. Chatted with the sons and the old man was napping in the entryway, you had to step over his outstretched legs to enter and exit.

I had pancakes with Mac-n-Cheese and bacon and maple syrup and other accoutrements.

Hold it tight, it's out of print!

I just tracked down a copy of this DVD last week! Thanks for posting this so I can send it to friends.

RIP Kenny Shopsin :(

Here's a passage from a New Yorker piece on him. The man was clearly the best kind of a menace and at the same time living the dream of anyone that's ever worked in a restaurant.

>"One evening, when the place was nearly full, I saw a party of four come in the door; a couple of them may have been wearing neckties, which wouldn’t have been a plus in a restaurant whose waitress used to wear a T-shirt that said “Die Yuppie Scum.” Kenny took a quick glance from the kitchen and said, “No, we’re closed.” After a brief try at appealing the decision, the party left, and the waitress pulled the security gate partway down to discourage other latecomers.

>”It’s only eight o’clock,” I said to Kenny.

>”They were nothing but strangers,” he said.

>”I think those are usually called customers,” I said. “They come here, you give them food, they give you money. It’s known as the restaurant business.”

>Kenny shrugged. “Fuck ‘em,” he said."

Fucking legend.

Eager to rewatch. Now.

Me too. I still make post modern pancakes a couple times a year.

This documentary is excellent! I have been working in restaurants for years, and I picked up so many tricks from watching this. For instance- you can drill out the jets in a gas stove to increase the gas flow… Or how about set a spatula over the burner- until it is red hot, then dust a pancake in sugar and use the red hot spatula to caramelize the sugar.

I remember this one from back in the day. Good flick

blisters on my sister!

the small bakeries and boulangeries are all getting crushed by utility prices and are going out of business, it's like a fire burned through it. the French social system is getting hollowed out until it's as bad as the US. People used to be a priority there, there was a real safety net. Now it's just the same neoliberal vampire bullshit, and Macron is a hitman.

You will always be a five top!!!!

Saw this about 16 years ago. For some reason or other I think about it almost every day.

I need to watch this. I also miss that place.

I miss Shopsin's dearly.

So what. We get to hear their phone conversations. They're French, and the French have a different word for EVERYTHING.

Out if curiosity, what does it mean to be French

Is it entitled “Not Doing Enough”

Real, but purposely chosen. For every conversation in this movie, Macron had 1,000 others about the subject you didn’t get to listen to

French propaganda. Nice.

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exactly. Macron is at war with what it means to be French, to be France.

How can this be fake? These are recordings of the presidents and some of the behind the scenes talk. For sure not all of it is shown, but I think at least what is shown is real footage, not faked AI stuff.

Lol fuck Macron