If so, expect lots of places getting busted.
Guy
Iām trying to get my head around this. So, assuming Covid is loose in Taiwan a chef splutters on the food heās preparing, itās taken to my table, and I catch Covid. Is that the logic?
And I thought not accepting mail from the UK had reached the peak.
No, dont expect that. Setting yourself up for dissapointment.
But do hope for cooks to be clean. Its not likely, but still hope.
RAW is closing down.
Chef AndrĆ© Chiang announces that he plans to close his Taipei Michelin Two Star restaurant RAW and turn it into a culinary academy that can train around 20 Michelin caliber chefs a year. RAWās final day as a restaurant will be December 31, 2024.
https://twitter.com/AngryTaiwanman/status/1817816116972102045
They hit the roof of how much money they can make as a restaurant and now will likely make a few times more what they made as a restaurant.
Iām so traumatized from being blasted by endless repetitions of that guyās toothpaste commercial that I could never consider eating at his restaurant. Maybe theyāll stop airing it now that the restaurant is closing? 
Is it time to start talking about the RAW diaspora?
If so, hereās one review of one example (link below). If you want some extra entertaining reading, check out this writerās take on RAW. 
Guy
Anyone in the food industry knows its better to supply the retailers than be one. Thatās the best advice a person can get before opening a restaraunt.
Plus RAW already had key staff leaving, poor publicly announced fda visits etc. Why bother with the stress for less money than running a culinary cram school? Sorry, academy. or some such fancy word.
Golden widsom: āIf you canāt do, teach.ā
I think thatās too strong, and I donāt even like RAW.
Changes in the labour laws made during the Tsai administration have placed new pressures on this industry, as least based on conversations Iāve had with some pretty talented owner / chefs in the capital. It appears the business model for these places has indeed relied on their workers working long hours (prep, business hours, clean up) or else the business doesnāt work. And you tell me how many talented young people in Taiwan are willing to jump in and do these kind of hours in the kitchenāitās hard as hell.
I wonder if the RAW announcement will end up being an outlier or the start of a larger trend.
Guy
Looks like one of those lardy daa places that give you an admittedly very tasty food but a tiny portion with a fig leaf on top to make it look fancy so you leave the restaurant still hungry and stop off for a McDonalds on the way home.
Whatās too strong? They (many restaraunts) rely on abuse. I thinks thats standard in good kitchens. The shitty kitchens rely on low quality grub marked up super high and a rotating door of ācooksā. Par for the course.
āIf you canāt do, teachā model seems pretty solid in many industries in my honest opinion. Raw had a good run. The boss run out of steam, now he wants to teach. They got busted with no masks and cockroaches and their main skilled chefs left. Nevermind their actual value as an eatery. I think itās basically an open and shut case. I donāt blame him for wanting to run a school and do TV commercials.
My point is that itās pretty clear RAW can do. Thatās what I think is not quite fair in your comment, especially as the labour regulatory environment has shifted.
Guy
Fair enough. Thatās true, everyone can do. Thatās a fact, and I agree.
Let me rephrase
āIf you donāt want to do, teachā
Doesnāt have the same ring to it, but certainly more accurate 
News article about his plan of kitchen buxiban.
It seems so farcical that any restaurant in Taiwan could be busted for this.
Well, I guess I will never experience this restaurant. I tried to make reservations some time ago but gave up. Iām sure it will be even more impossible to make reservations now that they are closing soon. Oh well.
wait i thought thereās like a 3 month waitlist to get a table. so, running a cram school can make more money than a fancy restaurant business model?
Waste of money anyways, biggest disappointment culinarily speaking on the island.
Just go to frassi next door, that was instead very good.
Yes. Easily and by a LOT.
Also: Far less work, almost no government regulation (= less work), a wham bam thank you maāam model. Less anxiety. Leaves WAY more time for other prospects, a restsraunt ties you down time wise.
Again, easily, and by a LOT! itās more profitable to be a cram school than an English academic. Itās more profitable to to supply cram schools rather Han be one. And so on
That looks great. Iām interested in trying it out.