Filmmaker Andrew Rossi and co-director Kate Novack open their entertaining documentary about the odds against making it in the New York City restaurant business with three bewildering facts: There are currently 18,000 restaurants in NYC; 1,000 new ones open annually; four out five of these new eateries fail within five years. And yet despite these overwhelming odds, wide-eyed idealists like transplanted Midwesterners John McCormick and Billy Phelps, best friends from Minnesota, risk nearly everything they have to make a go of it. They hope to create that special place that offers not only good food and an inviting environment, but popular enough to withstand the New ...
Released:
2004
Rated:
NR
Length:
82 mins