SongSoo Kim is looking ahead, clear-eyed. “Certainly, I think,” she says, “there’s a lot of work to do. For sure.” Kim is the head of sourcing and development for the most influential restaurant company nobody’s ever heard of, Super 8. Not famous, Super 8, but its restaurants are London A-listers, and easily up there with the city’s best: Mountain, Brat, Kiln, Smoking Goat. A cast-iron critical reputation, and two Michelin stars from five restaurants (Brat has a sister in Climpson’s Arch).
But Kim isn’t talking food or service or suppliers — she’s on sexism in hospitality. A little over a month since 70 female chefs signed an open letter decrying gender discrimination in the workplace, how does she think her company is doing?
