“2017 may be remembered as one of Chicago’s worst dining years…”
“…That is, unless 2018 proves to be even more challenging.”
“It’s the trickiest landscape we’ve ever seen out there,” said Rob Katz, who with Kevin Boehm heads up the Boka Restaurant Group, which owns such highly successful restaurants as Boka, GT Fish & Oyster, Girl & the Goat and many more, including the recently opened Somerset and Bellmore. “We do think it’s going to be a bumpy couple of years.”
“If I were starting today, rather than in 1971, God, it would have been a lot harder,” said Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises founder Rich Melman. “It’s different now. I feel bad for people starting out.”