“AI, I have no idea if the doomsayers are right, and I'm just not even thinking about that. What I'm thinking about is that we have a concept we call ABCD. … always be collecting dots so you can always be connecting dots. And the dots are pieces of information about people so that we can customize experiences, which is what I think hospitality is. And we have never had a greater dot collecting agency than AI. It's almost malpractice to not know who you're serving in the restaurant.”

…to help and grow your business. And I love it because it gives you a voice out there to talk about things that are important to you and why, you know, people that don't use leftovers use them. I mean, it's crazy waste. There's too many people starving. Don't waste food. So it gives you a voice. And

Danny, it's impossible, again, to ignore tech in restaurants, QR codes, touchscreen ordering, weird AI slop ads, marketing photos. How do you think about using things like AI or what Susan is doing for yourself and your restaurants? Well,

You use it in both those ways. I would agree with you about it knowing customers, including in regular retail. Now, Elizar, I think your biggest story that got tons of social media attention was a $60 loaf of rye bread that's being sold in this bakery. I read the hell out of that story and it was…

Well, thanks for reading. You know, that was a story that had already lived sort of a full cycle of internet virality by the time I got to it. And so when I went to New York, ate the bread, was trying to form sort of some thoughts about it. I mostly was just thinking about how to write a story that…

And the bread was good. And