In 2013, Wey opened his first restaurant, Revolver, a venue that hosted pop-up dinners with chefs across the metropolitan Detroit area.[5] The restaurant hosted its final dinner in March 2020 and the co-owner, Peter Dalinowski, confirmed its official closure in October 2020.[6]
As a chef, Wey is widely known for hosting pop-up dinners that provoke social and political conversations. At Saartj, his lunch stall at the Roux Carre market in New Orleans, Wey charged white diners two and a half times as much as black diners and other people of color; the number was chosen based on the city's black-white income gap and diners were told the profits would be redistributed to people of color.[7] The concept was similar to a pop-up he hosted in Nashville, Tennessee, "H*t Chicken Sh*t", where Wey served the city's popular dish, hot chicken and used a tiered pricing structure to provoke conversation about gentrification in North Nashville. Black attendees dined for free while white diners were charged up to $1000 for a portion of a meal or could make a donation of a deed to a local property for a complete meal,[1] The event raised more than $50,000 towards affordable housing in the city.[8] In addition to hosting dinners about Blackness and racism in the United States, Wey has hosted dinners to encourage attendees to interrogate US immigration laws and the experience of undocumented immigrants.[9]
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