Acknowledgements

Noodle Bar: Quino Baca, thank you for being instrumental in our survival early on and believing when no one else did. We wouldn’t be here without you. May the Brooklyn Star live long and prosper! Tim Maslow, Scott Garfinkel, Kevin Pemoulie, Johanna Ware, Pedro Dominguez, Eugene Lee, Zipa Acosta.

Ssäm Bar: Tien Ho will always have the last laugh. Josh Kleinman, Francis Derby, Sean Gray, Anacleto. Jude, Tex and Gabe, can’t believe how much you guys have grown. Cory Lane, for teaching us what service means.