Caper covers the inside story of the restaurant business.
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There was a time when restaurant ads were worth framing. Emma Orlow goes behind the scenes, speaking with the designers, editors, and owners who defined an era overflowing with restaurant advertisements.
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$20,000 a month, a mansion, flying private—being a private chef has its perks, but a life of your own isn’t one of them. Read the confessions of a private chef, as told to Chris Crowley.
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Tomorrow is 30 years since Tracy Westmoreland opened Siberia, the dive bar in a Midtown subway station. A year ago, he resurrected it in the Columbus Circle subway. Annie Armstrong sat down with him to discuss the state of drinking in New York.
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Hearing a lot about younger chefs working at high end restaurants for six months or a year then going to private cheffing for better pay and less hours. Is social media convincing everyone to leave the line?
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Chris Crowley wrote about what the private chef boom means for restaurants: caper.media/p/early-career-y…
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Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary and Thomas Straker’s SoHo restaurant have a few things in common. Both are impossible to get into.
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Could an Automat work in today’s restaurant climate? Here, Emma Orlow explores the rebirth of Horn & Hardart, the company that brought the first Automat to the U.S. in 1902.
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Jon Neidich’s Golden Age Hospitality is ringing in its golden age, with new leases across the city and new hires from Simon Kim and Stephen Starr’s restaurant groups. Annie Armstrong maps Golden Age’s growth in the hospitality scene.
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The reservations platform Ande, which has raised $52 million, is betting that a corporate-only marketplace can fill restaurants’ empty private dining rooms.
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Tech companies are vying to be part of the restaurant pop-up boom. Many of today’s most interesting pop-ups, like Piscator and Ăn Xôi, use Hotplate, a platform for pop-up owners to sell their food drops and communicate directly with customers.
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A new book tells the story of 50 years of London restaurants, including critic A.A. Gill’s legendary feud with Gordon Ramsay, a reminder of what we lost when influencers took over the dining room.
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Read about what superagent Ari Emanuel's new memoir reveals about Hollywood power dining.
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Sebastien Silvestri, the CEO of Dinex, Daniel Boulud’s restaurant group, believes hospitality is still built the same way it always has been: By showing up. Read about how the Dinex CEO got into the restaurant business.
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Did your bot get you banned from Resy? As reservation platforms are getting swarmed by AI agents, and users are getting banned, one startup is promising a solution. But is it really better? Read about the AI bot arms race from Chris Crowley.
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True Crime dominates podcast charts. A new podcast, Outlaw’s Digest, promises to deliver one just for the food obsessed.
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A new team, an old name, an iconic space. Ariel Arce and Max Katzenberg are reviving the Upper West Side’s beloved Café des Artistes.
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A Miró from a Paris flea market, a Calder from an Alabama yard sale, and a family portrait watching over it all—inside Chez Fifi, the Foulquer brothers’ tribute to their mother
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Mashama Bailey may be opening a new restaurant in New York City. Union Square Events applied to manage the restaurant at the forthcoming Canyon Museum on the Lower East Side with a “James Beard winning chef.”
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Donohue’s found a new owner. Jon Neidich’s Golden Age Hospitality has taken over the legendary institution 3 months after it closed.
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Opening restaurants, and the grueling hours and bad habits that come with it, made Caper’s Chef in Residence Ryan Bartlow gain weight every time. A shot in his love handle fixed the problem—until it created a new one.
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Are El Califa de León’s $19 tacos New York's most expensive? While everyone's griping about the price, what Chris Crowley really wants to talk about are skyrocketing beef prices.
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