can mario batali's restaurant empire survive without him?n the cover, how generations z is changing online retail. the generation of people reaching adulthood in the second decade of the 21st century. in china, these kids are showing the rest of us how to live in a cashless world. jim ellis has that story. jim: this will be the largest demographic group since boomers. the same way boomers transformed the way we shopped after world war ii, we will probably see this route through the same. by the middle of next decade or maybe sooner, this will be the largest consumer group. there are so many of them. these are the children of gen x. they are different kinds of consumers but they have grown up in a world where mobile, internet shopping, where being able to talk back and forth to retailers and communicate and not just be on the receiving end of advertising, they have grown up with that. carol: before everybody starts googling, these are gen z. 1995 and after. jim: they are in the age range of roughly seven, eight up to 22. a lot of people say i

carol: what is fascinating, and let's go back to the partnership between mario batali and joe bastillonichrestaurants, different states. batali had some ownership. so now, joe is buying into that business, or buying him out? or so we think? kate: so we think. devin: well, we know what they have said and what they have said is basically joe's sister, she is stepping in basically to mario's ownership role so she and joe are going to basically have the majority position. all the restaurants, they will be running them. carol: in our podcast this week, jason kelly sat down with gj hart, the ceo of restaurant chain torchy's tacos. he developed california pizza kitchen and texas roadhouse into well-known brands. we asked him about his plans for torchy's. >> i saw the concept tried the , food, met the people, and i think about the opportunity around america and this is pretty special. i've seen lots of things. this is probably the biggest opportunity i have seen in a long time. not just nationally, but internationally. jason: why? texas roadhouse, i could go through, you've worked at so many big c

that was then, then fast-forward #metoo and that impacts mario batali. movement changed everything and it was like someone turned on the lights at the club. everything that was great and fun and he hated that might have gone on in upstairs dining room or something like that all of a sudden became things he would talk about on 60 minutes and file a police investigation on. when you put a spotlight on it, there was a lot going on. carol: i feel like it is a story that we see in many other industries where there is a media industry, people were known for having a history or doing certain things -- it just wasn't made public and all of a sudden, it was and that change things. kate: right, exactly. that is where devon's fantastic reporting skills came in. theust go back and read book "heat," there are clues and the way he behaves towards women. in the book, whether he is on tv drinking, if you read that book now, knowing what we know now, it is all there. just wasn't verbally harassing people, he was groping people. carol: it was pretty egregious, some of the

can mario batali's restaurant empire survive without him?