The Tesla Diner which should open in Hollywood will be managed by Eric Greenspan, a longtime Los Angeles chief, announced a Tesla investor this week.
Greenspan will be the chef of the new restaurant who will open on Santa Monica Boulevard, who will offer a cinema behind the wheel and 75 compressor V4 stands, according to an article on X of Sawyer Merritt, an investor of Tesla self-identified.
Greenspan refused to comment or confirm his involvement in the project, saying to Times: “I’m not sure there is a lot to speak.”
But Elon Musk de Tesla seemed to confirm the hiring, responding to Merritt on X: “It will be cool.”
Greenspan, a former Cordon Bleu and a veteran of the patina, was launched on the culinary scene of Los Angeles with his Californian-French restaurant The Foundry in 2007. He opened several restaurants and finally founded Alt / Grub / Faction, a collection of ghost kitchens, or restaurants in name that only deliver food to an online client. He also developed a new American Cheese school, a product currently served on burgers and sandwiches in Los Angeles.
“Greenspan is a charismatic man, with a great low-hand presence and a strong personality who can distract you (is it a tactic of diversion?) Of his considerable intelligence,” wrote Amy Scortes, former editor of the food section of La Times.
Greenspan is frequently catering consultant, lending a culinary sense to projects such as the Weight Watchers Cafe and Mr. Beast Burger. Whether Greenspan will serve as chief of the Tesla diner or consultant – simply advise aspects of the menu – has not yet been seen.
Another possible link with the restaurant, reported by the New York Times, is the influential restaurateur Bill Chait, with a William Chait listed as director of Zero2one LLC, a company cited on recent employment items for the Tesla Diner.
Chait helped model the city’s landscape through its operations in Bestia, Republic, The Rose and others via Sprout Restaurant Group, which he left in 2015.
More recently, Chait has contributed to Fanny’s to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, at Tartine, the First Born of Zozo La Brea and a new restaurant in Chinatown.
Chait and Greenspan are not the only ones to do news this week linked to Tesla Diner.
In a separate article in the New York Times, which interviewed the project leaders, the chief -owner of the Republic, Walter Manzke, said that it was “exciting” and noted that his wife – the co -owner of the Republic and the awarded pastry chief James Beard Margarita Manzke – agree.
“She told me the other day that she wanted to buy a Tesla, so that I could tell you what side she is,” said Manzke.
The Manzkes have been faced with an immediate backlash and, in an Instagram publication deleted since, wrote that the declaration was never supposed to be political.
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