*Both men eventually wriggled free of their problems. Veyrat talked the bankers into renegotiating his loans, opened a second restaurant in the mountains, and went on to very successfully remake himself as the most expensive restaurateur in France. Gagnaire got a bit of financial banking, set up the Hotel Balzac in Paris (just off the Champs Elysées, in the center of Expense Account Heaven), and thrived there.