Two prominent New Orleans chefs described their struggles to stay afloat amid rising costs in an emotional CBS Evening News segment investigating the closure of thousands of restaurants nationwide.
The segment, published online this weekend, in part follows chef Eric Cook’s final shift at Gris Gris before the upscale Southern restaurant’s permanent closure in July, in the middle of the New Orleans’ slow summer season.
At the time, Cook said Gris Gris wasn’t doing enough business to survive and had never recovered to pre-pandemic levels…