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Forty Restaurants, One Neighborhood, and a Life Drew Nieporent Has No Regrets About
🎙️ From McDonald's Griddle to Nobu: The Rise of Drew Nieporent
In this episode, Drew Nieporent, founder of Myriad Restaurant Group, traces a path from a McDonald's grill at 17 to co-founding Nobu with Robert De Niro and Nobu Matsuhisa. He walks through opening Montrachet with a $16 menu that earned three stars, building six restaurants on one Tribeca block, and facing a stroke, kidney cancer, and leukemia within the same year.
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Started at McDonald's at 17 as the quarter-pound grill man
Opened Montrachet in 1985, three stars on a sixteen dollar menu
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