#speirs is a nepo baby of the restaurant world

[pookielious]

Okay so more story building for the restaurant au !

I imagine this whole au taking place in a larger American city so I think it would take place in New Jersey but more specifically Jersey city !everyone's back stories are the same as the show ofc but for each of their own reasons they all end up in Jersey and at the restaurant

Nixon is the official owner on paper but dick winters is his co owner and probably co signed with Nixon, ofc all of it was his idea but he decided to drag his bestfriend along for the ride, out of the two of them dick is always there the most while nixon takes care of like paperwork and stuff for the business

Also this doesn't take place in the 1940s!! I imagine it taking place in the early 2000s maybe ?? I don't have a exact year in mind but it's like in the 2000s - 2010s era vaguely

Lip, Johnny and speirs where the first 3 to be hired because they kind of realized "oh we kind of need people to help us do this shit" both lip and speirs are assistant/executive managers since both of them are good at ehat they do in their own ways, speirs has been in the restaurant business for a while so there's rumors of how he used to treat his own staff before easy while lip is relatively new to managing people but he'd die for everyone he works with

Johnny is head chef because I feel like that's somehow really fitting for him, like I can imagine him being really nurturing to his line cooks and helping them figure out wth they're doing but he can turn around and be like Gordon Ramsey yelling left and right but just in general he's really well respected bt everyone