12/06/12

The New "Normal:" Tsunami's Ben Smith on the restaurant industry

Note: This is the first entry in our new weekly blog, "Beyond the Bio," where we ask MBQ Power Players to write a post of their choosing about their industry. The Power Players category in the November/December 2012 MBQ is Restaurateurs, and we have asked Ben Smith, executive chef and owner of Tsunami restaurant, to take us on our maiden voyage. Check this space weekly for future installments of "Beyond the Bio." "Most restaurants fail. The sad ones are stillborn. The mad ones flourish within the bustle and excitement of fame, notoriety, the thrill of the new. But they rarely sustain the glow. They are balloons kept aloft by a restless crowd. Only the strange, the freaks of restaurant perfection, can sustain life beyond a few...

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