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Apr 2021

38m 8s

The Future of Restaurants, Take-Out, and...

TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee

About this episode

Youngme , Mihir , and Felix discuss the future of food delivery, ghost kitchens, virtual restaurant brands, and more.

Recent picks, and recommended reading/websites:

Ice Cream Makers
My Mister (Netflix)
Nomadland (Jessica Bruder)

You can visit our website at HarvardAfterHours.com. You can email your comments and ideas for future episodes to: harvardafterhours@gmail.com. You can follow Youngme, Mihir, Rebecca, and Rawi on Twitter at: @YoungmeMoon, @DesaiMihirA, @RebeccaReCap, and @RawiAbdelal.

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