They do offer a vegetarian substitution, but you never know what you’ll get there either. And while I am fine with vegetarian fare in general, I’m not blowing $175 on a vegetarian meal.
Now to be fair most of their menus look great to me - I’m not that picky. The only thing I’m not keen on in that list would be the salmon carpaccio appetizer that was served yesterday. And I wouldn’t hate that - I just don’t dig salmon much and would never voluntarily order it myself.
But perusing old menus I have very occasionally run across one where I’ve thought I would have been kinda unhappy. At that price range I’m risk-averse.
Orange Is The New Black caused a kerfuffle when it campaigned in the Emmy comedy categories (so much so that they changed the rules, at least temporarily).
That’s what it was.
Looking online, that would’ve been in 2014. Season 1 of OITNB. While that was a great show (and season), they would’ve been up against Breaking Bad, Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones, House of Cards, Mad Men and True Detective. I don’t know that season 1 of OITNB would have posed a threat to the final half of the final season of Breaking Bad. Even without Breaking Bad in the mix, that still some pretty strong competition.
In the comedy category, they were up against Modern Family, Veep, Louie, Silicon Valley and The Big Bang Theory. Modern Family won.
I was talking to my sister about this and mentioned that I’m of the opinion that a show should be judged based on the category it’s in. Somewhere in the discussion she said “You don’t think The Bear is a good show?” to which I replied “Is it the funniest show you’ve seen all year?”.
Did the show just invent this weird idea of “haunting”? They certainly spent a LOT of screentime on it, and it all just fell fairly flat.
I’m also totally uninterested in the Uncle-financing side of things, particularly after the genuinely ridiculous deal they reached at the end of last season (or was it season 1?), which has been entirely ignored this season.
As I recall, the deal was that they 18 months to pay back uncle, and if they didn’t, he suddenly owned the entire restaurant. Which makes no sense financially or in terms of the incentives that it generates. Wouldn’t he then have an incentive to tank the restaurant so they wouldn’t be able to pay it back?
Overall, I thought season 3 was a disappointment. Too much time with unstructured flashbacks, tone poems, and hauntings. Not enough time with the main characters actually trying to resolve their issues.
That said, it’s still a hell of a lot of fun to watch a lot of the time.
That’s the same incentive you have to stop paying your mortgage.
Presumably Carmy want’s to keep the restaurant. Plus, we don’t know the details. It’s likely that if it comes to that, Carmy would owe him $300k less whatever he [Cicero] can sell the building/equipment/business for.
…if he was only interested in the money, probably.
Butt the show makes it clear that its not about the money.
That they couldn’t resolve their issues was the point of this season. More specifically, that Carmy is the reason why the Bear is failing. The final episode of season two showed that, without Carmy, the team was electric. But as soon as Carmy was back, he dragged everyone back down. The phone conversation between Richie and Jess highlighted this point. What was the secret to Jess’s success? She surrounded herself with non-toxic people. Carmy is toxic, and is holding everyone else back.
I guess I’m not 100% sure on what happens if you miss mortgage payments, but I assume that if you pay back 99% of your mortgage and then miss one payment you don’t suddenly lose the house and own none of it.
Furthermore, if I have some deal where if I don’t make sufficient money, everything I own suddenly devolves to the bank, then I don’t treat the bank as if they’re my partner in the business.
More than just missing a single payment. But lets say you stop paying altogether and the bank forecloses on it. In short, they’ll take your house and sell it. Whatever they don’t recover, you’ll still owe. If they sell it for more than the remaining balance, they’ll return that to you.
If The Bear isn’t able to pay off the $800,000 debt within 18 months time, Cicero gets the entire lot The Bear sits on. Cicero estimates the lot is worth “maybe” 2 million dollars. This is a deal Cicero can’t pass up.
So it seems their deal is that Carmy pays back the loan in 18 months or Cicero takes the restaurant. Based on Cicero estimating the lot $2,000,000 and Carmy being desperate, I believe that the plan is if Carmy doesn’t pay back the loan in 18 months, he can, in fact, just walk away from it. But this isn’t normal, this is loan shark territory. This is like someone loaning you $1000 and holding your $10,000 car as collateral. If you don’t repay the money in time, they keep your car.
But, with that, he doesn’t have to tank the business. Cicero’s had his eye on it (the lot) since the beginning. Any time Carmy wants to hand him the keys, he’ll take them.
Interestingly, he actually has a slight incentive to stick it out now. If that’s right, that he can walk away from all of this, there’s no reason for him not to burn through the rest of the money trying to make it work. Of course, on the other hand, if walking away from it means keeping all the money he’s sitting on, then his best bet is to get out as soon as he realizes he’s not going to cross the finish line.
I don’t know if this represents Uncle Jimmy, but I think some who invest in restaurants do so because they like the idea of it; they like the creativity, the prestige, the fine food, the fact that they can always get a table at the hot restaurant.
I think in this case he was helping out family (well, “family”, I don’t think he’s related). I don’t know that we’ll ever learn the details of Michael and Cicero’s agreement, but I’d guess it’s similar to what he’s doing with Carmy. He loaned Michael some money because he wants to help him out of a jam, but he also sees an opportunity to acquire the property for 15¢ on the dollar if Michael can’t pay him back. From Cicero’s point of view, he can’t lose. Either he gets his money back and Michael owes him a big favor, or he flips the property and makes a big profit on the sale.
I do think it’s worth noting that if Michael had paid him back (or Carmy does at some point), he’ll be happy that he was able to help. That is, I don’t think acquiring the lot was a motivation for loaning the money. He’ll take advantage of the situation if it comes to that, but I think he just wanted, and was able, to help out.
Yeah the idea that a business - and especially a restaurant - could go from 0 to profitable to having 800k of profit in 18 months is laughable. It’s so far beyond believable that it’s insane, so you have to just ignore it.
I think you’re talking about Carmy tanking the business. I’m talking about Uncle tanking the business (ie, sabotaging it). That said, everyone does seem to agree that the financial side of it just plain makes no sense. So… whatever.
Got it, that changes things. Cicero could tank the business to get Carmy out sooner, but you have to keep in mind, now that he’s one of the partners, when/if the business starts turning a profit, he’ll get a percentage of it.
So if the restaurant fails, he bought it for $800k and can sell it for $2,000,000. Even if he can only sell it for $1,000,000, that still a nice chunk of change.
If the restaurant does well, he gets his $800k back AND a share of the profits.
I could be wrong, but I think Cicero putting some pressure on Sydney to sign the partnership agreement is because he thinks she’ll help the place do well.
Agreed on Unc’s motivation. In the parking lot convo with Carmy, he expresses he “wished he had done more” to help Mikey, Sugar and Carmy. So as much as he wants the financial benefits of a highly successful restaurant, he also wants to support getting a win for Carmy and Sugar, and a nice memorial for Mikey.
Okay, the Bear has gotten 23 Emmy awards- for being a comedy. Now, I will admit not getting Hulu but I watched a couple episodes. Well acted, but not a comedy at all.