What It Was Really Like to Work Inside the Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich Restaurant Empire

Kim Reed was helping homebound elderly patients as a social worker in the early 2000s when she picked up a part-time hostess job at Babbo, the Greenwich Village restaurant at the center of what was Mario Batali’s restaurant empire. She created the nightly seating chart, which meant juggling requests from celebrities as well as from friends of Batali and his business partner, Joe Bastianich. It turned into a full-time, all-consuming job, first at Babbo and then at Del Posto as Bastianich’s executive assistant. She left the company after Batali was accused of sexual misconduct by several women in 2017. (In… Read Full Article