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The Bear Recap: Take Us There, Bear
Carmy’s “non-negotiables” aren’t a bad list of goals, but as demands, it’s asking way too much.
But it also does that through an early montage paying tribute to Chicago’s rich, high-low food service industry, where thousands of people (sometimes literally) grind out long days at places like the Vienna Beef factory, Kasia’s Pierogies, Chiu Quon Bakery, Lasalle Flowers, Jim’s Original, and in the bowels of the city’s many hotels. Carmy shouldn’t expect the staff to embrace literally everything on the list from day one, no questions asked, but I think if he had, like Syd, tried to present these as just goals to work toward, even a week at a time, then he could have been more successful. Four servers quit The Bear on night one because they couldn’t deal with the mania of the kitchen, but Richie seems to want to amp it up even more, pushing Carmy (and, one would assume, Sugar) to their breaking points.
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