Close call.
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“Probably the night a 30-foot track light swung down from the ceiling at Union Square Cafe like a guillotine, putting a four-inch gash in the wall … just two inches from a guest’s face. That was just a couple of weeks after we opened. Those two inches could have ended the guest’s life and my career before it began.” — The Union Square Hospitality Group founder, when asked about close calls, says he had a really bad night a few decades back. [Food Arts, Related]
