BB-INT017 — André Silva

Recruited through a service-industry contact — André tends bar four nights a week and picks up occasional line-cook shifts, so his "lunch" is 1am and his food radar is entirely late-night. He asked to meet after his shift, hence the 10:45pm diner slot; he showed up still half in work mode, energetic, immediately started talking food before I'd turned the... Thanks for meeting so late. Tell me how you first got onto BorderBlend. Bro, okay — so this is a whole story. [laughs] A coworker of mine, Deshawn, we close the bar together, right, and one night like — 1:15, 1:30, we're both starving, dead on our feet, and he goes "nah forget the pizza, come with me." And I'm like where are we going, and he just — [waves hand] — walks me four blocks and there's this truck. BorderBlend. Little...