Caruso's Cheesecake Factory Chef Crisis Story

• 1:06:08Rick Caruso's dollar-a-year salary slogan is hollow political marketing.
• 1:07:04Caruso claims his Cheesecake Factory experience qualifies him to lead LA — he sent a drunk chef to rehab and replaced him with his deadbeat cousin.
• 1:08:04The drunk chef at Americana's Cheesecake Factory was burning the chicken and fish every day.
• 1:08:35Caruso's actual achievement was reforming LAPD under a federal consent decree and dropping crime by 30 percent.
• 1:08:55Tim reads Caruso's line about the only dangerous people in the city being police.
• 1:09:23Caruso's solution is his 'do it quietly' program — encouraging cops to behave as before but quietly, like busting heads in secret.
• 1:10:05Tim admits he's starting to believe in Caruso after hearing the 'do it quietly' pitch.
• 1:10:52Tim ridicules the interview setup — only one camera, no shot of the interviewer, conducted inside a restaurant.
• 1:11:07Fox 11's production choices for the Caruso interview are bizarrely unprofessional.

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