How I Built Resilience: Vivian Ku, Restaurateur

Hey everyone and welcome to How I Built This Resilience Edition from NPR. I'm Guy Roz. Each week on Thursday, we invite entrepreneurs and other business leaders to come onto the show to talk about how they've been building resilience into their businesses this past year. And you can join us each Thursday at nine AM Pacific, twelve Eastern on the How I Built This Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube pages. to hear the conversation and ask questions as well. And today my conversation with Vivian Co, owner of the restaurants Pine and Crane, Joy and Today starts here is

Vivian is a first generation Taiwanese American, and she's opened three Taiwanese restaurants in Los Angeles. In the midst of the pandemic, with many restaurants closing, Vivian decided to open a breakfast pop up called Today Starts Here in LA's Chinatown. We talked about her childhood growing up on a farm and how she's leading three different restaurants during the pandemic. But first, I asked Vivian how she was doing in light of the recent shootings in Atlanta and the rise of violence against Asian Americans in the past year. I always when I hit something I don't understand.

Try to process it in a way where there's a silver lining. And I really had a hard time yesterday. I was like, there is no silver lining here. Um, you know, I couldn't really make sense of it. It felt like in a lot of ways we were Going backwards, like worse than when I was growing up. And

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