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If you haven't seen yet, ROOSTER is officially closed for repairs for the next couple of weeks. Some racist assholes came by, vandalized the dining room, and set it on fire. So yeah, just in case anyone needed a reminder that xenophobia is alive and well, no kimchi pierogi and soju for you for a while.

[🐓 ROOSTER EMPLOYEES]

We're going to try to provide some pay in the meantime, but feel free to try to moonlight elsewhere if you need the money until we can get the doors open again. This really sucks, and we're sorry about the situation. You shouldn't worry about feeling unsafe or anything here, though. These people were cowards who didn't come until well after close, and it looks like they got spooked and ran before they could get to the back anyway. We promise that this isn't a front for closing, either: we're definitely going to come back stronger and better than before when this is all over.

BOH: I want to use some of this downtime to work on the menu. The restaurant's pretty toxic right now, so I'll host some nights at my place to use the kitchen for experimentation. Lmk when you're free.

[DORA]

Hey, you know anything about a guy named Oscar Summers? He's part of the fucking cult, and I could use some dirt. As a favor.

[FILTERED TO ROOSTER 🐓]

So Justin and I have been talking, and we think there's a huge opportunity here, now that atavists are out of the bag and all. So we're gonna do it. We have a possible feature lined up with a reporter right now, and we want to publicly announce ROOSTER as the first atavist restaurant. Jump on that chance while it's hot. Show people atavists do more than just blow up Times Square, et cetera.

It means Justin and I are outing ourselves to the public, obviously — but that puts you guys all in a situation, which is why we're bringing it to you. None of you have to be public. We can claim that not all of our employees are atavists, but some are, since people like Nik obviously jumped on that grenade already. If you don't want to even be involved with us now that we're doing this, that's also fine. Now's your chance to step out, and we'll see what we can do to compensate you, plus you're always welcome to hit us up for letters of recommendation.

But if you do want to be part of this, we could be the first place where you can openly and comfortably use your power. We could set a gold standard for atavists everywhere.

What do you guys think?

[CAMILA]

We're doing it. Justin said yeah.

If you don't already have plans for tomorrow's solar eclipse, you should be heading to ROOSTER to join us. We've "temporarily gained access" to the roof and we're planning on celebrating with special cocktails and small dishes — try the The End Of The World As We Know It (soju, St. Germaine, souls of the damned $6) or Tequila Eclipse Of The Heart (tequila, passionfruit, black lava salt rim, $7) to go along with our charred squid ink beetroot & water chestnut salad or the black sesame songpyeon.

[ROOSTER]

Turns out the whole P:A-nosing-around-in-our-business thing had nothing to do with anything we're actually doing around here, so you don't have to worry about that shit anymore. Justin and I dealt with it.

[...] Thanks to everyone who pulled their weight and more the past couple of weeks. This summer has been fucking insane. Keep it up. We'll do staff drinks tonight.

[CAMILA]

You should've seen the look the Korean laundry lady gave me when I picked up my laundry this morning. Apparently some of your underwear got mixed in with my clothes.