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Barry Soper: Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent on the Kiwi restaurants recognised by the Michelin Guide · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Barry Sopers, that's Alo Berry.
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  Speaker 3: Good afternoon, Heather.
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  Speaker 2: Right Michelin. How good was the Michelin Awards?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? I think they were great.
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  Speaker 2: The concept and who got awarded rather than the awards themselves.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Indeed, it's more than just the fourteen stars though
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  Speaker 3: that were handed out last night. More than a one
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  Speaker 3: hundred restaurants in New Zealand were globally recognized. And people
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  Speaker 3: may say, well, it's just one restaurant, guy, but it's
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  Speaker 3: the most prestigious guide in the world. Queenstown of course
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  Speaker 3: had singled out for that two star. We must go
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  Speaker 3: there at some stage. But thirty five establishments they were
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  Speaker 3: given a bib Gorman Distinction Award by Michelin. That's quite
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  Speaker 3: significant as well. And a further sixty restaurants in New
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  Speaker 3: Zealand have the title now of Michelin Recognized Restaurant, which
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  Speaker 3: is pretty big deal. I've got to say that. So
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  Speaker 3: the Minister of Tourism and Hospitality, Louise Upston, was making
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  Speaker 3: a fist of it in parliament to this afternoon debunking
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  Speaker 3: the notion, and rightly so, that the Michelin Guide is
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  Speaker 3: a preserve of the well held saying to be in
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  Speaker 3: it will give New Zealand not just prestige, but will
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  Speaker 3: further open the door to tourists.
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  Speaker 4: It's not just about fine dining. The Guide highlights everything
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  Speaker 4: from neighborhood favorites that Kiwis enjoy visiting regularly to world
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  Speaker 4: class dining experiences with a global reach. The Guide gives
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  Speaker 4: overseas tourists considering New Zealand one hundred and ten more
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  Speaker 4: reasons to put a visit to our shores on their
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  Speaker 4: booking list, keeping restaurants humming and the reservations coming. Unlike
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  Speaker 4: some in this house who yesterday questioned the value of
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  Speaker 4: the Michelan Guide, We've made this investment because we value
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  Speaker 4: the skill and expertise of hospitality workers like those recognized
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  Speaker 4: in the inaugural New Zealand Guide. Outside Chris Sipkin's disappointing negativity,
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  Speaker 4: overall commentary and reaction, there's these awards and the people
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  Speaker 4: who have earned them through hard graft has been overwhelmingly positive.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd say that. I'll tell you the bib Gorman
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  Speaker 3: distinction award. One restaurant that got one that i'd been
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  Speaker 3: going to for many, many years every time I go
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  Speaker 3: to Queenstown, which is my old stomping ground when I
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  Speaker 3: was young, is the Cow. It's basically pizzeria in Queenstown.
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  Speaker 3: Lovely old building it's in. And then the Michelin, hang on,
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  Speaker 3: you've missed that.
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  Speaker 2: You've missed the best part of the story. When did
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  Speaker 2: you first go to the Cow? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: When I was a lad and probably my late teens.
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  Speaker 2: You were sixteen years old when you went to the Cow. Probably,
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  Speaker 2: and you're still going to the Cow.
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  Speaker 3: I'm still going to the Cow.
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  Speaker 2: Brilliant.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, We'll never miss it when I go to Queenstown.
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  Speaker 3: And then michelin selected restaurants included another few that I've
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  Speaker 3: visited over the years, the Bullcott Street Bistro in Wellington,
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  Speaker 3: along with shed Fie Charlie Nobles and then here in Auckland,
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  Speaker 3: the lovely Onslow Restaurant. It's been a selected restaurant by Michelin.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I'm so happy for these people. All right,
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  Speaker 2: did the homelessness come up again?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Yes, And I've got to say Chris Lackson got
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  Speaker 3: sustained applause in Parliament this afternoon when he was responding
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  Speaker 3: to the never ending questions at the moment from the
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  Speaker 3: opposition benches about rough sleepers and homelessness. Chris Lackson accused
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  Speaker 3: Chris Hipkins of having a selective memory when it came
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  Speaker 3: to those who had fallen on hard times have listened
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  Speaker 3: to him, pushing back on the Labor leader.
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  Speaker 5: Why does his government thinks that it's something to celebrate
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  Speaker 5: that there are fewer people living in emergency accommodation and
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  Speaker 5: more people living in cars on the streets and garages
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  Speaker 5: in with me nowhere to call home.
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  Speaker 6: There you had nineteen thousand more people went on the
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  Speaker 6: social housing wait list under your government. You've got three
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  Speaker 6: four hundred kids in motels and you didn't care, And
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  Speaker 6: now you want to talk to me about homelessness. We
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  Speaker 6: do something on this side because we care about those people.
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  Speaker 6: We don't do petty stuff and petty politics like that side,
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  Speaker 6: shameful records.
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  Speaker 3: It was firing wow in parliament this afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: But can I say though I feel like that, I
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  Speaker 2: feel as if there is a pep in the National
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  Speaker 2: Party step for some reason.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I think there is and Certainly Chrystopher Lackson's being
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  Speaker 3: performing much better in the House. He's really done a
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  Speaker 3: lot more pushback than he has done in the past.
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  Speaker 3: He was very much into the long explanation, but now
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  Speaker 3: he's really cut and thrust back into the debate and
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  Speaker 3: that's what it should be about. And certainly he is
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  Speaker 3: the election draws near, he needs to be honest toes always.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, give me a quick rundown of what's gone on
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  Speaker 2: with the boy the sirens.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, this is incredible for some people. That car
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  Speaker 3: crushing legislation. Let's pass through its final reading in Parliament.
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  Speaker 3: The bill will in most cases courts will be required
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  Speaker 3: to seize and either sell or destroy a vehicle involved
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  Speaker 3: in street races and those who are fleeing police and
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  Speaker 3: in convoys. The fines will be increased, the police will
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  Speaker 3: be able to close off roads and the Transport Minister
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  Speaker 3: Chris Bishop remembered the out of control boy racer event.
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  Speaker 3: You'll remember it and live in last.
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  Speaker 7: Year, like one thousand people in two hundred cars filled
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  Speaker 7: Livin carrying out exactly this kind of antisocial behavior. The
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  Speaker 7: organizers of what was titled the Levin invasion say that
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  Speaker 7: boy racers just need somewhere to go. Well, my message
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  Speaker 7: to them is clear, go home, otherwise you'll be going
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  Speaker 7: to court and your vehicle will be going through the
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  Speaker 7: preferb of your crusher. New Zealanders have had enough and
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  Speaker 7: I'm proud that this government is taking action.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that is good, but it will be interesting to see,
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  Speaker 3: won't it. An old crusher Collins, you know, brought in
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  Speaker 3: the crushing legislation. Not a lot with crushed, So this.
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  Speaker 2: Is true as well. Thank you, Barry. Barry Sober, Senior
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  Speaker 2: political correspondent.
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