{"id":605978,"date":"2026-09-20T06:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/605978\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T06:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T06:34:11","slug":"simon-gault-reveals-plans-for-a-deli-and-family-style-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/605978\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Gault reveals plans for a deli and family style restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019m totally in the hands of the council, it might be six months or more to get a resource consent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">Gault\u2019s career has included working in restaurants overseas and in Aotearoa, cooking for billionaire Larry Ellison on his superyacht and judging five seasons of MasterChef New Zealand. He says he left the restaurant business because it wasn\u2019t conducive to family life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI had a 1-year-old and I was like, this is just, you know, I want to be remembered as a dad, not the guy that was always in the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI used to have a nanny and I would get my daughter up in the morning, get her off to school, then I\u2019d go to work, cook lunch, drive home. I live way out south and I\u2019d get her dinner, early into bed, leave the nanny to it, go to work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAnd I\u2019d finish work at 12 o\u2019clock at night \u2026 One day I just said, enough\u2019s enough. This is just ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSo I hung my boots up and that was 13 years ago. And now I\u2019ve got a daughter who\u2019s saying, oh, I\u2019d love to be a waitress in a restaurant, Dad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m totally in the hands of the council, it might be six months or more to get a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[95,58930,156,2109,2082,171782,111,139,69,2171,2539,1517,6037,2791],"class_list":["post-605978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-and","tag-deli","tag-entertainment","tag-family","tag-for","tag-gault","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-plans","tag-restaurant","tag-reveals","tag-simon","tag-style"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}