![]() While plenty of real-life restaurateurs will roll their eyes at the idea that Carmy somehow managed to get all of his building permits squared away in just a few weeks or that there weren’t massive delays in construction, The Bear still feels eminently accurate when it comes to the often crushing tedium of navigating the world of taxes, permits, and insurance. The whole issue of funding is wrapped up pretty quickly - maybe too quickly, in fact - and Carmy and Sydney set an admittedly aggressive timeline of just 12 weeks to get their new restaurant ready for the public. In what other show about the restaurant industry do we hear about the struggles of getting a fire suppression system to pass inspection? After only a little prodding, he agrees to bankroll the project, with one major caveat: If they can’t pay him back in 18 months, he’ll own the Original Beef building and sell it to recoup his losses. Carmy and Sydney head to visit Cicero (Oliver Platt), Carmy’s arguably shady uncle who gave Mikey the tomato-can money. ![]() His sister, Sugar (Abby Elliott), who is overseeing the project, quickly makes it clear that they need more cash. In just the first few minutes of Episode 1, Carmy has already racked up more than $100,000 in planned improvements and renovations, and he’s just getting started. The building formerly known as the Original Beef is also getting a major overhaul, with a look that better suits the forward-thinking restaurant Carmy and Sydney want to build. Prickly line cooks Tina (Liza Colón-Zayas) and Ebraheim (Edwin Lee Gibson) head off to culinary school to refine their skills, and pastry chef Marcus (Lionel Boyce) takes a trip to Copenhagen to stage at one of the temples of modernist cuisine alongside ( ridiculously hot) chef Luca (Will Poulter). Sous chef Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) is reading self-help books and trying to come into her own as a leader in the kitchen, while endlessly dreaming up dishes for the menu. The new season depicts a period of great transition for the restaurant, and everyone who works in it. Via the painstaking process of opening his restaurant, called the Bear, Carmy has the chance to finally live up to his potential as a chef, and maybe move past the trauma he experienced during his time in fine dining. Thanks to that tomato can fortune, in Season 2 Carmy can move past the Italian beef sandwiches and build the restaurant of his dreams. But as with a real-life restaurant, the Original Beef needs an infusion of money to stay open, and survives only thanks to a stash of tomato cans stuffed with cash left behind by Mikey. After Carmy revamps the menu, the Original Beef takes off. He’s returned to his hometown to run the Original Beef of Chicagoland, a lunch spot formerly owned by Mikey (Jon Bernthal), Carmy’s brother, who died by suicide. ![]() For those who don’t remember, here’s a quick recap: Carmy is a prodigy-level fine dining chef who is back in Chicago after working in some of the world’s most renowned kitchens. ![]() When we left Carmy at the end of Season 1, things were looking up. Now it’s back for Season 2, which finds Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White) and the gang preparing to take on the only thing more challenging than turning around your family’s failing restaurant: transforming that failing restaurant into a bona fide fine dining destination. Earning praise from critics and restaurant industry lifers alike, the show offered a fresh portrayal of the business, one that was both loving and unflinching. ![]() The Bear, a breakneck series about a chef who comes home to Chicago to take over his late brother’s Italian beef spot, was arguably television’s biggest surprise hit of 2022. *Minor spoilers for The Bear Season 2 below ![]()
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