a bacon restaurant.

到培根餐廳。

Peter Sherman is a born-and-bred New Yorker

彼得-謝爾曼是一個土生土長的紐約人。

serving up everything bacon.

服務於一切培根。

- You know on a good week, we're going through at least

- 你知道，在一個好的一週，我們要通過至少一個

a thousand pounds of bacon.

一千磅的培根。

You know, we've probably spend a quarter million

你知道，我們大概已經花了25萬美金

dollars last year just on buying bacon.

去年僅在購買培根上就花費了美元。

Narrator: Peter trained at the International Culinary

旁白：Peter在國際烹飪學院受訓

Institute before working in several fine-dining restaurants.

學院，然後在幾家高級餐廳工作。

And after about 20 years, he was looking for a change.

而在20年後，他也在尋求改變。

He finally left his job at the Four Seasons Hotel

他終於辭去了四季酒店的工作。

to run Bar Bacon in 2014.

在2014年經營酒吧培根。

- The trajectory of my life and the food

- 我的生活軌跡和食物。

industry itself was going in a different direction.

行業本身也在朝著不同的方向發展。

The fine dining was failing, so I needed to sort of

精緻的餐飲是失敗的，所以我需要排序。

find my own path.

找到自己的路。

My objective was trying to find something that was sort of

我的目標是試圖找到一些東西，是那種

under-serviced, but still had a craving that could

服務不足，但仍有一種渴望，可以。

carry an entire menu.

攜帶整個菜單。

Narrator: Turns out, switching caviar for bacon paid off.

事實證明，把魚子醬換成培根是有好處的把魚子醬換成了培根，果然有收穫。

The restaurant brings in over $3 million in revenue

餐廳帶來300多萬元的收入

each year.

每年。

- When I opened this restaurant, I feared that all

- 當我開這家餐廳的時候，我擔心所有的人

of the talent that I had put forward,

的人才，我曾提出。

I was losing most of it.

我失去了大部分。

And now I'm limiting myself to just the

而現在我只把自己限制在了...

single ingredient of bacon.

單一成分的培根。

What I didn't realize, that I realize today,

我沒有意識到的，今天才意識到。

is that it opened more doors than it closed.

是它打開的門比關閉的門多。

Narrator: Now bacon is one of the oldest foods in the world.

旁白：現在培根是世界上最古老的食物之一。

Meaning thousands of years old.

意味著幾千年的歷史。

The first recipe for bacon dates back to 1500 BC

培根的第一個配方可以追溯到公元前1500年。

And yet people can't stop eating it.

但人們卻無法停止食用它。

- As much as the pundits like to say that we're

- 雖然專家們喜歡說，我們是

going through a fad or a trend.

經歷了一種時尚或潮流。

You know, bacon is trending.

你知道，培根是趨勢。

Bacon has never not trended.

培根從來沒有不趨勢。

I mean, it has only increased from the amount of

我的意思是，它只增加了從量的。

bacon that we have sold.

我們已經賣掉的培根。

We can't keep up with a demand that is always rising.

我們無法跟上一直上升的需求。

Narrator: Now the average American east about 18 pounds

旁白：現在美國人平均體重約為18磅

of bacon each year.

每年的培根。

But even with such high demand, Peter looks to keep

但即使在如此高的需求下，彼得還是希望能保持

his menu affordable.

他的菜單實惠。

So he's willing to pay a little extra if that means

所以他願意多付一點錢，如果這意味著...

keeping his prices consistent.

讓他的價格保持一致。

- We've taken hits here and there and when

- 我們在這裡和那裡受到了打擊，當

pork has spiked.

豬肉已經飆升。

It was more important that we sort of stayed true to a

更重要的是，我們有點保持真實的。

price point that was in that vein and in that line.

的價位，是在這個脈絡和線路中。

Narrator: Peter is always looking for new and creative

旁白：彼得總是在尋找新的和有創意的

ways to serve up bacon.

臘肉的食用方法。

And on this menu, customers may come across bacon twists

而在這份菜單上，顧客可能會看到培根扭扭樂

they've never seen before -

他們從未見過

like chocolate-covered bacon and bacon-wrapped hot dogs.

比如巧克力包裹的培根和培根包裹的熱狗。

- All I need to do is put bacon on the plate,

- 我只需要把培根放在盤子裡就可以了。

which allows me to live in every culture's cuisines.

這讓我可以生活在各種文化的美食中。