From a New York Times restaurant review earlier this month, explaining why a chef decided to close a pop-up ramen shop that had been open after-hours inside a bagel store:
Last week, Joshua Smookler, Mu Ramen's chef and its owner, told me "the real reason" he had decamped from the bagel shop.
"I was scared of the government finding out what we were doing," he said, even though he believed it was legal...
Either Mr. Smookler is paranoid or would-be businessmen in New York City have a well-founded fear of excessive government regulation.
