Interview with Khanh Nguyen, March 3, 2023

Interview with Khanh Nguyen, March 3, 2023

2023-03-03

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Betsy Brody

Khanh Nguyen

5.4 Interview with Khanh Nguyen, March 3, 2023 2021oh002_di_022 01:50:41 ohdi Digging In di001 How Food, Culture, and Class Shaped Asian Dallas Becoming Texans, Becoming Americans This project is possible thanks to the support of a Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowship. Khanh Nguyen Betsy Brody mp3 oh_audio_dig_Nguyen_khanh_20230303.mp3 0 https://betsybrody.aviaryplatform.com/embed/media/187928 Aviary audio 0 Introduction 33 Arriving in the United States from Vietnam Boston;Boston University;Catholic University;Houston;Law School;Northeastern;refugees;sponsor;Texas;UT Austin;Vietnam;Virginia 157 Going to school in Boston/Language learning Boston;Camp Pendleton;Dalat;English;Fort Chaffee;French;language;refugee;sponsor;war 453 Going to law school at UT Austin ADHD;education;law;law school;Locke Lord;Locke Purnell Rain Harris;University of Texas;UT 646 Becoming an entrepreneur/Opening first restaurant ADD;ADHD;business;cooking;entrepreneur;law;software;technology 991 Creating the menu at Dalat cooking;Dalat;Doritos;food;fusion;pho;recipes;soup;Superbowl 1290 Dalat as a neighborhood restaurant/Connecting through food connection;customers;demographic;food;neighborhood restaurant;regulars 1512 Challenges of location Dalat;Dallas;Fitzhugh;Herrera's;Knox-Henderson;location;restaurant 1706 Advertising/Relationship to food media in Dallas advertising;Dalat;Dallas;food media;pizza;restaurant reviewer;reviews;sales;social media;Zalat 2187 Opening Zalat Pizza business model;cheese;crust;Dalat;gang;Papa John's;pepperoni;pho;pizza;sauce;Zalat 3226 Growth of Zalat Pizza/Stock options for employees benefits;business model;consistency;growth;labor;pizza;profit;quality;scale;stock options 3639 Balancing growth and consistency at Zalat Pizza business model;consistency;French Laundry;growth;pizza;pizza box;Pizza Sheriff;quality;Thomas keller 4452 Philosophy of building wealth for front line workers benefits;frontline;growth;labor;pizza;wealth;workers;Zalat 4819 Developing Uber Rush for delivery business model;delivery;logistics;pizza;Uber;Uber Rush 5342 Thoughts about " authenticity " Asian American;authenticity;culture;Doritos;food;foodies;pizza;social media;tradition;Vietnam;Vietnamese;Yelp 6174 " Mom and pop " restaurants/Lessons about growth and staffing chain;growth;labor;mom and pop;skills;staffing No transcript. All rights to the interviews, including but not restricted to legal title, copyrights and literary property rights, have been transferred to the Baylor University Institute for Oral History. audio Interviews may be reproduced with permission from the Baylor University Institute for Oral History. 0