Babak Bina didn’t just survive the restaurant industry. He bent an entire city around his vision.

After landing in Boston as an immigrant, washing dishes to stay alive, he spent the next 30 years building concepts that defined the city’s dining scene.

Babak talks about the moments operators never admit publicly:
– The lowest point where he almost walked away
– Flooding an entire dining room and owning the fallout
– Reinventing concepts while everyone else plays it safe
– Investing in people instead of chasing shiny ideas
– The pandemic moments that could’ve erased everything
– What immigrants understand about hospitality that others don’t
– The belief he holds that most operators will disagree with

The market is shifting again. The operators who grow from here will be the ones who think like Babak — conviction, adaptability, and brutal honesty.

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