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The chef and owner of a place to eat, David Burke, the blow that his places have suffered to eat in reaction to closures and restrictions by coronavirus.
Those of us in the restaurant industry in New Jersey, New York and beyond are surprised at what we’ve never experienced before: total silence and nowhere to go.
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My control team and I are heartbroken. We’ve shut down and fired almost all of our employees. My places in New Jersey still make takeaway – WINDOWS Restaurant – Lounge, David Burke Orange Lawn and Drifthouse through David Burke – but that’s just a ray of hope.
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That’s not actually our activities. But it helps keep our managers and chefs busy and allows us to stay in touch with our customers. We’re grateful for that. My New York sites are absolutely closed.
None of us can see what the overall effect will be like.
In New Jersey alone it’s a $12 billion industry. There is so much uncertainty because nothing like this has ever happened before in our lifetime.
I don’t know what this means for my business, which was soaring and it seemed like the sky was the limit.
Then we pandemic. It happened so fast.
But this isn’t the first time I’ve had to get out of the misfortune. While painful and humiliating, I have learned that as leaders, commercial housing owners, and employers, we will have to remain optimistic; we’ll have to stay calm or hell will break loose.
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We want our groups to know that we are there for the long term.And we want to communicate, communicate, communicate.
However, I am positive and admit that I am concerned.
It’s time to channel our youngest, fearless self. We have to do what we need to do to get things right. It’s going to take a lot of work. So we have to use our workload as a badge of honor.
In difficult times, he helped me look to the afterlife for answers or encouragement.
How have we ever completed what we have in America?
It was a little more than 200 years ago when our patriots defied the most powerful country in the world, and won to begin the United States of America as we know it today.
What we want to do now is deepen our hearts, be creative, inventive, resilient, imaginative like our ancestors.
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We’ll have to pay attention and fulfill what our government tells us to do.
I also look at my own beyond to find answers. What did we do when it came time to start the dinner service and the sick dishwasher, the underwater grill manager, the manager resigned and the bathrooms were clogged?
We dug and we did it.
It’s time to channel our youngest, fearless self. We have to do what we need to do to get things right. It’s going to take a lot of work.
So we have our workload as a badge of honor.
But before we were given to work, this was unprecedented, our compulsory license, forced us to press the pause button.
It’s time to take a safe haven at home, spend time with our loved ones and friends. It is a moment of reflection, reloading and making plans for the future.
I’m going to start writing my new cookbook and my newspaper recipes; I will be my neighbors and remain open to charities; and I work with my team in all the feeding systems we can, when the time comes, for the hospital and health professionals.
And I’m going to take the time to smell the flowers, as they say, and look for the good looks everywhere.
Recently, I had a chance to do just that. I run in the yard, something I rarely have time to do, when I heard a single bird create so much music, it’s extraordinary.
I surprised through this solitary bird in the leafless trees. This bird sang a song like no one else.
It was a song of hope, I thought. No hate, no worries and no finger singing. Anyway, the sun will shine and this bird will be there. Then let’s go.
My mentor, chef Charlie Palmer of the River Café, once said that he hired wise jersey children because they had wise attitudes and may accept many.
While I take my free time, listening to this little bird make all this music, I’m going to channel this wise kid and be in a position to do whatever it takes to get back to that kitchen, get back to the sturdy and global loopy of restaurants.
We’re going to find a way to break or recreate and reinvent ourselves. We’ll be back as safe as the sun shines.
So I urge you to take that time to pay attention to birds and bees, eat healthy foods, exercise, fulfill all the responsibilities of your to-do list that you will never have time to do. And lend a hand to those who want it.
In fact, I might faint and buy my new feathered friend a bird bath. I think I’d like to keep this songbird close to me for a while, to be vigilant.
Director David Burke’s fame as a rock star is firmly based on his mastery of French technique, New World innovation, his mental eye and his disjointed and endless attitude. With a tsunami of awards and credits to develop his culinary talent, Chef Burke is considered a pioneer of American cuisine, named executive chef of the legendary River Café at the age of 26, a feat in itself.
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