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Chef Andrew Gruel

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Family | Sandwiches | Restaurant Owner 🍕 🇺🇸 - TV Host | Fmr. Judge on Food Network | Co-Host SoCal Restaurant Show | @calicofishhouse

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Great question. Liquor sales are down about 8% year on year. Guess what is up? Corkage fees AND we have had multiple issues with guests bringing their own booze in flasks to add to drinks. Not that we don't make a strong drink, they order water with lemon and sugar then add to…

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Your taste is yours, no shame if you like it. A little hot sauce on steak tastes good because the pepper amps the flavors up. It’s basically black pepper on steroids. As for marinating in buffalo sauce, it will add some extra flavor - it won’t tenderize the steak and wouldn’t…

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We add it into the general cost of doing biz. I think the larger convo is when it starts to become something people take advantage of. In this economy, we’ve seen things that we never thought would happen. Little old ladies taking full rolls of toilet paper in their purse, people…

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Got some new videos coming out soon. Here's a quick steak sandwich presented by my young sous chefs. It's a bit messy, so you may want to watch it wearing a bib. And yes, they just woke up, hence the pajamas.

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Keep in mind, this case is going to the Supreme Court, most likely in June; however, after a limited injunction, they are back at it, working diligently with the various social media companies to censor, censor, censor. All on the back of pineapple pizza.

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Charging extra for sauce is always the age old debate. Our sauces cost about $.32 per ounce. We serve 3 oz of sauce. That’s roughly $1. Technically if I was hitting 25% food cost I should charge $4 for extra sauce. If it’s Togo that’s another .25 for packaging so $5. We don’t…

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They are asking for “living wage” - in this area of Maryland it’s $26 per hour. Apple should have just paid that; now they are going to have a union store and it will be closed within a year. Why doesn’t Apple want to pay up? They have been preaching about this for years.

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Funny thing, when I tell them they can't park in our parking lot, as it's for guests only and I will lose business, their response is, 'So, what am I supposed to do? Where am I supposed to park?'. Last year I had a guy tell me he would come back and shoot me when I told him to…

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Huge street festival across from the restaurant. Every one of our parking spots is being taken by non-guests. Now the guests can't park. Is it reasonable to put vaseline on everyone's car handles? Or just go with the clarified butter?

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