Ali Khan Lalani is one of my earlier clients. I met Ali at the Superpoint pop-up and teamed with him to open General Assembly in Toronto in 2017. He was already working on General Assembly and wanted to involve me with recipe development, the menu, the layout.
We agreed on a contract, he sent me the layout, and I immediately told him to stop construction. The kitchen needed a redesign. To his credit, Ali had faith in my ability to design a pizza kitchen. He listened, and we reworked the design to include a custom pizza table with a double-sided topping station going into the oven. When it’s busy, that thing cranks pizza out. It’s nuts.