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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.

FILTERED TO: ANNIE'S FRIENDS (Cole, Desmond, Lev, Hal, Stella, Amalia, Phoebe, Eddie, Nik, Ro)

Are you guys gonna tell your parents???

What the FUCK is happening outside??

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.

It's that time of year again: Wednesday is the day you all were #blessed with my arrival into this world, so I'm going to make all of you host me for a change. Maybe I'll demand that some of you cook for me, that would be pretty hilarious.

The celebration starts at midnight Tuesday at Throwback, so be there or I'll...probably not notice, but if someone tells me I'll cut you off from ROOSTER goodies forever because I'm vindictive like that.

[ROOSTER CREW 🐓]

So I'm working Tues, but Gab's covering BOH for Weds and Thurs this week while I recover. We'll probably close early Tues if the house is dead so we can pregame before Throwback, and if you're not on the schedule for Weds, text me or Justin to see where we're at so you can come join up with us. Chances it'll either be my place or...I don't know, we ended up in either Astoria or Cobble Hill last year, I can't remember.

Kitchen: proud of you guys for handling the 49 orders of breadbowl bibimbop today. Fucking customers, man. Can't live with 'em.

Last item on the list: anyone interested in contributing to the @ROOSTER atagram? We set it up last night. Follow it. Tell all your friends to follow it.

Three years ago today, Justin Lo and I opened ROOSTER. Thanks to our hard work, our fucking fantastic staff, and the support of the community, we're lucky enough to still be going strong to this day.

So this is a notice that we'll be closing early tonight — 8 PM. Come in before then if you want to try our special celebratory cocktail.

[ROOSTER 🐓]

Anniversary party's tonight at the restaurant, so be there or we'll fire you.

Kidding. All staff are invited and we'll be feeding and liquoring you up, though, so you won't want to miss it. You can bring a guest or a date or whatever, but no more than one. Or two, if you're into threesomes, I guess.

That exploding taxi reminded me: we're still looking for a decent pyrokinetic who can control their powers to work in the kitchen at ROOSTER. The last guy could not sear for his life. Nobody wants blackened meat. I will not pay you to make blackened meat. You do not keep a job with blackened meat.

Also, I'm offering free meals to any teleporter volunteer who can get our employees to work in blizzards or bad weather or general subway fuckery. Stay safe everyone, etc, but also come to fucking work.

[ROOSTER CREW]

Family meal's gonna be lit on Friday, so if you want goodies, show up on time and say please.