My job is calming everybody else down. I wish I knew how to calm myself. Four flies now. This is a clean restaurant, but once you let fruit flies in, they multiply in the air, they just grow up out of the sugar. The bartenders left without wiping the bottle tips.
Alcohol is sugar, it smells stale, and it attracts fruit flies.
We charge a lot for our drinks. Neil is not a survivor, he's a resurrectionist who has risen time after time from the commercial dead. Neil Stein created and abandoned Mimi Says, Philly's first real Sinful Suburban Supper Club. He helped create and abandoned Marabella's, which remade the informal Italian restaurant from glorified pizza parlor to homemade pastaria. He created and abandoned Pomodoro, a high-priced restaurant on the Ben Franklin Parkway.