Restaurant Unstoppable has published an interview with Ilma Lopez, co-owner of Chaval and Ugly Duckling.
“How do you know you’re winning? Because I’m happy…I don’t want to win against you, I want to win with what I have with me. So if whatever I’m doing today, it’s get me closer to where I want to be [then] I’m winning on my own…My intention is not to compete with anyone else.”
“I fell in love with the music in the kitchen. You hear the tickets…and you can close your eyes and you know how many pots have to hit the stove, that clinking…you hear everything, you hear the oven opening and you hear the the flame coming up…all those were perfect music. And you knew if all those sounds were in sync, you knew the service was going to be amazing.”