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Speaker 1: The most prestigious restaurant guide in the world, the one

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Speaker 1: where a single star changes the restaurant's trajectory. Is recognizing

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis as a serious food city. This is not a

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Speaker 1: small thing for restaurants. This is decades of chefs and

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Speaker 1: restaurant tours and food culture builders getting the national validation

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Speaker 1: that they've earned. There is a catch, and we'll get

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Speaker 1: to that in just a second. So Michelin Guide is

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Speaker 1: coming to Indianapolis for the first time. It's part of

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Speaker 1: a new Great Lakes Regional Guide which includes Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Minneapolis,

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Speaker 1: and Pittsburgh. And you know those Michelin Stars, they are

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Speaker 1: one of the most prestigious awards in food. It could

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Speaker 1: bring national attention and tourism to Indie's food scene. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is how it works. You have anonymous inspectors. They're

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Speaker 1: already visiting restaurants right now. They come in and they

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Speaker 1: have a meal at the restaurant and they decide how

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Speaker 1: good the food and service and ambiance and vibe all

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Speaker 1: of it is, and then the restaurant can earn between

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Speaker 1: one and three Michelin Stars based on the quality. The

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Speaker 1: first selected Michelin restaurant will be announced in twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: Here's the catch. Well, okay, Visit Indy has been partnering

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Speaker 1: with Michelin for three years and they've been paying about

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars this last year to

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Speaker 1: help launch it. So you got to pay to play.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, isn't that truth with everything? But yeah,

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Speaker 2: these Michelin Stars for restaurants, this is a big deal.

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Speaker 2: If you ever watched the TV show The Bear Was,

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Speaker 2: that was a lot about this. He worked at a

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Speaker 2: Michelin star restaurant. It was very fancy. In case I

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Speaker 2: remember the scenes, He's like using tweezers to put little

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Speaker 2: bits of herbs on the meal plate and it's all

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Speaker 2: very you know, precise and fancy, and that's kind of

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Speaker 2: what it is. But in the foodie world, which by

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Speaker 2: the way, you know, the idea of traveling someplace just

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Speaker 2: to do a food tour in that state or that

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Speaker 2: city is becoming a bigger, bigger thing with people, and

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Speaker 2: so the type of restaurants that you have in your

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Speaker 2: town can really attract a lot of tourism. And so

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Speaker 2: the fact that now Indianapolis is being considered for Michelin

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Speaker 2: Star Restaurants is kind of a big deal because right

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Speaker 2: now it's pretty much only California, New York, Chicago, DC, Florida, Colorado,

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Speaker 2: and Texas for the most part. So the fact that

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Speaker 2: we're getting in on that game is kind of a

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Speaker 2: big deal and is going to highlight hopefully we'll get

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Speaker 2: a restaurant in the city of Indianapolis that will end

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Speaker 2: up getting at least one Michelin Star, and that's going

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Speaker 2: to be a big deal and highlight our restaurant scene

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Speaker 2: here in town.

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Speaker 1: Little boost reputation also attracts some visitors indies food scene

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Speaker 1: getting some national recognition. We played a Dave Portnoy pizza

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Speaker 1: review for you the other day.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he was in town for the Final four

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Speaker 2: and did some pizza review right right.

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Speaker 1: So now you've got INDI's food scene simultaneously at the

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Speaker 1: street level and as well as a high culture recognition

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Speaker 1: with the Michelin Star, all in the same month. So

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Speaker 1: that tells me that the Indianapolis food scene is genuinely

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Speaker 1: having a moment right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And look, I consider myself kind of a foodie,

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Speaker 2: although I'm a little bit of a weird foody because

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Speaker 2: I love junk food and fast food too, but I

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Speaker 2: also like, you know, the fancy foodie stuff. I've never

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Speaker 2: been to a Michelin Star restaurant. They're pretty tough to find,

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Speaker 2: in fact, there's only they're.

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Speaker 1: Even harder to get a reservation too.

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Speaker 2: Very difficult. In fact, as of right now, there are

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Speaker 2: only two hundred and seventy six restaurants in the United

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Speaker 2: States that have at least one Michelin Star. That's think

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Speaker 2: about the hundreds of thousands of restaurants all across the

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Speaker 2: fifty states in this country. There's only two hundred and

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Speaker 2: seventy six that currently have a Michelin Star. And by

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Speaker 2: the way, just because you get one doesn't mean you

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Speaker 2: keep it forever. You've got to re earn it all

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Speaker 2: the time. And so there's plenty of restaurants out there

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Speaker 2: that are former Michelin starred restaurants but don't currently have one.

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Speaker 1: Good for Indy getting some recognition. But let's not pretend

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Speaker 1: that this was purely organic. There's a involved Speaking of restaurants,

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Speaker 1: hoos yours tip extremely well at restaurants. New survey went

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Speaker 1: out and the fourth quarter of twenty twenty five, Indiana

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Speaker 1: diners among the best tippers in the Midwest, with the

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Speaker 1: average tip at twenty point six percent. The national average

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Speaker 1: is nineteen point two percent, So we're overtipping our neighbors.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and what's interesting about this is, you know, I'm

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Speaker 2: looking at the axios. Indianapolis has a story about this,

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Speaker 2: and they've got actually a really good map of all

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Speaker 2: fifty states and you can lay it all out there,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, you see a lot of other Midwest states

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Speaker 2: that are that are good tippers. Wisconsin, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 2: all very good tippers. What I found interesting on this

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Speaker 2: some of the worst tippers in.

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Speaker 3: The entire in the entire country. Yeah, California, California, what

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Speaker 3: it's supposed to be, you know, the liberal bastion of America, California,

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Speaker 3: the riches of California, tech billionaires in California, run by

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Speaker 3: Liberals and Democrats for decades and decades.

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Speaker 2: They're there for the working man, aren't they. The Democrats

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Speaker 2: are all about the working Yeah. No, you tip like

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Speaker 2: garbage in California. Absolutely terrible. One of the other terrible

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Speaker 2: tipping states was also another horrifically liberal state, in the

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Speaker 2: state of Washington, too. Both terrible.

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Speaker 1: So people can debate tip flation all you want, but

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Speaker 1: here in Indiana, we're putting our money literally where our

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Speaker 1: mouth is and generously tipping