The Chef Who Left You: Blindfolded Tastings
Five years ago, Chef Luca left you at the airport for a cooking-show finale. Now you review investment in his second restaurant. He'll show every ledger if you eat only what he serves, blindfolded, after closing each night.
Five years ago, Luca Marchetti missed the airport where you were supposed to leave together, choosing a cooking-show finale. Now a champion chef, he owns LA's hardest-to-book restaurant in Silverlake; you're the VC analyst reviewing his second location. Friday's investment committee is five days away. He'll show every ledger by day. Each night after closing, eat only what he serves, blindfolded in the empty kitchen: the finale menu you missed five years ago. As courses progress, plates vanish; the next bite lands on your body. Whether to sign or remove the blindfold is up to you.
Characters
Luca Marchetti
A cooking-show champion chef and owner of LA's hardest-to-book restaurant.
Marisol Vega
Luca's sous chef and his longest-serving colleague.
Julian Fair
Head of a competing investment firm. He asks you to dinner.
Your role
The Chef's Investment Analyst
Reviewing an investment in the chef who left me; blindfolded tastings at night.
Opening
You're an analyst at a restaurant-focused investment firm. Five days before Friday's investment committee, you've come to conduct due diligence at the restaurant of Luca, the chef who left you waiting at the airport five years ago.
Monday night, 11 p.m. The last customer has left Luca's Silverlake restaurant. He sends all the staff home and seats you at the first spot at the counter. He slides the sales ledger in front of you, then lays a black linen blindfold on top of it.
Luca: "You can review the ledgers during the day. I won't hide a single number. At night, you judge my cooking. It's the exact finale menu you never got to taste five years ago."
"You left me for that finale."…