Tesla Diner chef exits, staff hints at new full-service format

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The chef and co-operator behind Tesla Diner, one of the city’s most notable and polarizing new restaurants, is exiting the project.Staff told the L.A.

Times that the combination electric-vehicle charging station and diner will also shift to a full-service restaurant model soon.The first restaurant from electric-vehicle company Tesla debuted at the border of Hollywood and West Hollywood in July, drawing throngs of fans as well as protesters for months.Its chef, Eric Greenspan, headed the kitchen with a menu of American classics such as milkshakes, tuna melts, burgers and Wagyu-chili hot dogs.

Food Guests can charge their Teslas while getting ‘epic bacon’ and tuna melts carhopped to their vehicles, and other unique quirks we learned at the opening of Elon Musk’s new Tesla Diner in Hollywood.But the New School American Cheese founder and former Foundry chef, who also helped launch Mr.Beast Burger and the Weight Watchers cafe, said he is no longer tied to the diner and that his departure was in the works for more than one month.“I am leaving the Tesla Diner project to focus on the opening of Mish, my long-desired Jewish deli,” Greenspan wrote in a text message.

“Projects like Mish and the Tesla Diner require a sharpness of focus and attention, and my focus and attention is now squarely on Mish.”Representatives of Tesla could not be reached for comment.Greenspan faced backlash for his involvement when his ties to Tesla Diner were confirmed in March.One of the few remaining comments on his Instagram from the time references “the Swasticar restaurant.” California He will be the chef de cuisine at the diner set to open on Santa Monica Boulevard with a drive-in movie theater, a post on X by a self-identified Tesla investor said.In July, when the diner opened, the chef posted a video to his personal Instagram; the caption read, “Tesla Diner now open.

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