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That was delayed for six months because of the pandemic, so that happened in June 2021.Īnd then there were three deals that happened during the pandemic that we really couldn’t say no to. We opened a freestanding Mah-Ze-Dahr bakery in the Amazon neighborhood of National Landing, which is their new East Coast headquarters.

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We figured it was baseball season, people were allowed to go outside and watch a game, and the Nats had won the World Series in 2019. And then, Gatsby’s opening in April 2021 was just a year delay. We worked out a deal with our landlord to open something, and it was probably better to split those two openings as opposed to have them at the same time next door to each other. Mah-Ze-Dahr finally opened in September of last year. Clearly April of last year was the wrong time. Given the fact that we all thought we were going to die and/or go bankrupt, we had to put a hold on Gatsby’s opening until it made sense to open.

And we had Gatsby and Mah-Ze-Dahr, which are next door to each other, that were supposed to open in April. When the pandemic hit in March of 2020, we had four restaurants open. The group grew steadily since its founding, but also became an uncommon success story during the pandemic-doubling in size to a dozen locations since lockdown. With his partner Michael Reginbogin, Jason Berry cofounded Knead Hospitality + Design in Washington DC in 2014.