When he heard "restaurant," for example, he would picture an entrance, customers, a Romanian orchestra tuning up to play for them, and so on.
In the video the man threatens to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency responsible for deportations from the US, after hearing restaurant staff speaking to each other in Spanish.
Shortly after the election of President Trump, Jayaraman's group began to hear from restaurants and restaurant workers expressing concern about the president's immigration rhetoric.
Even so, Mr. Jahnke and bloggers like Deborah Smith of Point Pleasant, the owner and editor of Jersey Bites, frequently hear from restaurant owners or their publicists.
There comes a point in the year — it has just arrived — when LoIacono answers his phone and expects to hear a restaurant owner ask him about a cold-weather vestibule.
You expect to hear about restaurant kitchens in Charleston, New Orleans, or Memphis perfecting plates of the finest southern cuisine from hearty red beans and rice to stewed okra to crispy fried chicken.
"You could hear the restaurant ambient noise or the TV in the background, or if I was eating on the plane.
Goldstein fans still tuned into to Midnight Blue his Public Access television show to hear his restaurant reviews (one for Tony Roma's featured Goldstein vomiting on camera).
"We'd hear from restaurants that their customers wanted to buy our bread, and the restaurant would tell them it was from us," Hakimi says.
"You hear about restaurants where the linen guys were giving problems, or the carting guys, but we never had that kind of issue," Mr. Weprin said.
