The Restaurant Guys

The Cocktail Code | Paul MacDonald

November 3, 2026·32 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

Banter Can you teach hospitality or are you just teaching people to fake it? Mark and Francis discuss scripted service, sincerity, and a restaurant’s apparently AI-generated emails that promised a personal welcome the dining room failed to deliver. The Conversation Paul MacDonald of the Lovers Bar at Philadelphia’s Friday Saturday Sunday joins the Guys to explain how a cocktail experiment became a decade-long exploration of flavor and proportion. His Fibonacci cocktails use five ingredi...

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