Johnny Lee with Pearl River Deli
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English - December 09, 2020 10:00 - 41 minutes - 47.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsSociety & Culture management hospitality business entrepreneurship new york city marketing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Johnny Lee is the Chef/Owner of Pearl River Deli. Lee is a Los Angeles native whose humble beginnings started at McDonalds to working front of house as a waiter and restaurant manager at a Chinese restaurant in Colorado. His love for the hospitality business grew from these experiences and led him back to LA at the time when food trucks were booming. We fast-forward to Lee running the kitchens at Sticky Rice and Alvin Cailan's Eggslut in Grand Central Market before finally creating his own pop-up; which was so successful at the peak of the pandemic that it evolved into his brick and mortar restaurant located in the Far East Plaza in Chinatown. Lee also shares with us his dream of having a sustainable restaurant.