Avert your gaze from the rabble on Wall Street to the real victims of the modern economy: highly successful restaurateurs. It's really difficult to manage a restaurant empire when you're getting sued for back pay and lost tips by your staff, says Joe Bastianich, who co-owns Eataly, Babbo, and Del Posto. "Money-hungry lawyers, through frivolous lawsuits, are shaking down the very foundation of Manhattan's restaurant industry," the money-hungry businessman tells the Post. "Someone in Albany needs to understand the agenda, what this is really costing the greatest restaurant city in the world." Despite this harshest of anti-business climates, restaurants in New York City grew by 42% in the last decade.
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Eataly Co-Owner Cries About "Money-Hungry Lawyers"
British Paper Calls Our Restaurants "Cramped, Obnoxious"
New York is undisputedly one of the restaurant capitals of the world. We may not have the best restaurant in the country (that title these days seems to go to Alinea or the French Laundry depending on which list you are studying) but we almost always fill out the rest of any top ten. For sheer number of great restaurants in one place we can't be beat. But don't tell to that Lauren Collins of the Guardian. In a screed today she makes every effort to paint our dining scene as a crowded, chaotic and unappetizing mess. "A dinner out in New York," she says, "even for those who intend to pay the bill in full, often offers all the relaxation of a rush-hour tube ride to the dentist's office."
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