"Tao Group Hospitality, which is entering a partnership with Katz and Rodriguez, is described as one of the biggest restaurant groups in the country — the global group, which sold to Mohari earlier this year, has roughly 30 properties in New York City among 70 worldwide — and its original Midtown Tao opened in 2000 as the group’s first pan-Asian “clubstaurant.” Company COO Paul Goldstein expressed enthusiasm for the collaboration and framed it as bringing Katz and Rodriguez’s hands-on culinary expertise to Tao’s veteran hospitality platform." - Emma Orlow