Like many restaurateurs, Dirt Candy owner and chef Amanda Cohen has twisted and turned her way through the pandemic, making countless pivots to keep up with safety precautions and ever-changing government regulations in light of the public health crisis. But the veteran chef says that, over time, the constant barrage of changes that forced her to rethink every bit of the business — including raising the price of her lauded, vegetable-focused five course tasting menu to paying higher wages for her staff — resulted in unexpected payoffs.
In a long profile published in Bloomberg today, Cohen discloses that “the late-2021 version of Dirt Candy is more profitable than it’s been at any point in its 13-year history,” according to the report. Group reservations are more popular now, and customers are coming in and spending more money than they have in the past. “We’re doing Friday night numbers every day of the week,” Cohen tells Bloomberg. Additionally, raising wages allowed Cohen to more easily attract and retain staff while the industry underwent historic labor shortages.
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