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This book is adapted from the blog run by 박정우 the owner of a small italian-korean fusion restaurant that opened just at the start of the covid outbreak. It's comprised of about 88 anecdotes each 2-3 pages long about customers he had or things that happened during the first couple of years of his restaurant being open.
The restaurant went from virtually no foot-traffic for a year to becoming a local hit, and the author shares his outlook that it's not about maximising covers, but about the quality of the experience that diners have in their restaurant.
The language was very simple and there were a lot of observations of people and interpersonal relationship which I find valuable in language learning. It's something key to day to day life but usually quite inaccessable for language learners.
Having said that this was a bit tiresome to read for me. There isn't a narrative thrust and it feels like it drags on too much. I read it all for the sake of language learning but I think it would have been much more comfortable just to have skimmed through and stopped once I'd gotten my fill.