https://crystal.kitchen/tag/expansion/ Recent content in Expansion on adventures of an omnomnomnivore in NYC Hugo en-US Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:26:19 -0500 https://crystal.kitchen/2012/12/06/how-to-build-a-restaurant-empire/ Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:26:19 -0500 https://crystal.kitchen/2012/12/06/how-to-build-a-restaurant-empire/ <p><a href="https://crystal.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/img_4168.jpg"><img src="https://crystal.kitchen/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/img_4168.jpg" alt=""></a></p> <p>So you’ve created a wildly successful restaurant, and you’re just beginning to have some semblance of stability and free time again. Is it time to expand and build another location? At last night’s <a href="http://culintro.com/events/68/">Culintro panel on restaurant expansion</a>, three prominent chefs tackled that question and more. <a href="http://www.missionchinesefood.com/">Danny Bowien</a> (Mission Chinese), <a href="http://www.pokpokny.com">Andy Ricker</a> (Pok Pok) and <a href="http://www.altamareagroup.com/">Michael White</a> (Marea, Ai Fiori, Osteria Morini, Nicoletta) collectively shared their insights and mused on why anyone would decide to “go do the hardest thing in the world—open a restaurant in New York.”</p>