Mario Batali owns Eataly. He’s a left wing lowlife, who groped and forced employees to have sex with him.
He also lost a $5.5mm lawsuit for stealing tips from his servers. I wouldn’t recommend his overpriced crap holes.
First of all, you couldn’t put a gun to my head and make me eat at a place serving italian food called “eataly”
Not when I grew up with home made pasta and pizza.
There MUST be a place in every neighborhood where the owners have even 2nd or 3rd generations descendants making the food.
I have 20 within a 4 square mile radius. But then this is Staten Island.
And even then it’s nothing like what’s made in Italy or Sicily.
It’s been Americanized like all foreign foods.
Which means made fattening :)
But I still enjoy it a lot.
Our pizzas are like lasagna compared to Italy’s.
Also Eataly in NYC is wildly expensive. I mean, does one really need imported ricotta?
Do what you want, I cannot chose MOST businesses based on the ownership. I’ll go, you stay home.