On This Episode
- Alan and Travis, former colleagues of fine dining restaurants around Los Angeles, have blasted onto the pizza scene in LA with their pizza pop up, El Gato Negro Pizza and their latest brick and mortar spot, Bahr Cafe in downtown LA.
- The duo talks about how they use ChatGPT extensively for restaurant planning, including creating financial plans, business plans, invoices, and food cost calculations based on ingredient lists and local pricing.
- Their cafe concept will feature house-made pastries (including collaborations with Armenian bakers), specialty breakfast sandwiches with homemade sujuk (spiced sausage), and carefully developed coffee offerings.
- They’re operating with limited equipment (primarily a convection oven) and space constraints, requiring them to prep food at their shared home kitchen and transport it to the cafe.
