A restaurant in New York City has presented its diners with the most expensive French fries in the world.
The restaurant Serendipity 3 It already holds the world records for the most expensive hamburger ($ 295) and the most expensive ice cream ($ 1,000), but this dish would be incomplete if it were not for the most expensive fries in the world: just $ 200. Since last July 13 the Guinness World Records gave them the official qualifier.
Called “Creme de la Creme French Fries” the dish starts out as Chipperbec potatoes. They are blanched in vinegar and champagne. They are then fried in pure goose fat, not oil, and not once but twice, so they are crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside, the CNN review details.
The secret of these exotic fries is that they are esprinkled with edible gold and garnished with salt and truffle oil, served on a glass plate with an orchid, thinly sliced truffles and a Mornay cheese sauce. The sauce is also infused with truffles, a rare seasonal mushroom.
According to the executive chef of the company, Frederick Schoen-Kiewert, “the truffle is the main star “.
Serendipity, like many restaurants, closed its doors during the pandemic, forcing Calderone and Schoen-Kiewert in a fancy way to announce their return.
“It’s been a hard year and a half for everyone, and now we have to have fun”, Calderone said.
And despite being the most expensive fries in the world, there is already an eight to ten week waiting list to try them.
New challenges for restaurants
Since not all restaurants in the Big Apple can present dishes as exquisite as the most expensive French fries in the world, many will have to adjust to new city requirements.
New York City will become the first major US city to impose a vaccination requirement for eating indoors, leaving restaurant operators in the five boroughs with a host of new challenges to face.
Due to the increase in new cases of Covid-19 related to the delta variant, the city is requiring a test of at least one dose of the vaccine for a number of indoor activities, including restaurants, gyms and attending shows. .
Employees of these premises are also required to be vaccinated. After a few weeks of transition, the application is scheduled to begin on September 13.
As more vaccination mandates come in from towns and restaurants themselves, OpenTable, de Booking Holdings, has launched a feature that allows restaurants to show customers their Covid virus vaccination requirements. The reservation service also plans to publish a national list of restaurants that require proof of vaccination.
Inevitably, the New York mandate will have a learning curve. But restaurants are also waiting for more detailed guidance from city officials, such as the amount of information they must collect and record from customers.
The workforce has been a constant challenge for the sector, which needs all the workers it can get. Restaurants have resorted to raising wages and offering retention bonuses to attract new workers, but the unemployment rate for food and beverage outlets remained at 8.4% nationwide in July, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Restaurant operators will also see some benefits from the vaccination mandate, as well as stemming the tide of new Covid cases. On the one hand, it could limit the number of workers who declare themselves ill because they have tested positive for COVID-19.
Source CNN and CNBC
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