Career. From 1994 to 2004, James Michael Tyler played Gunther on the sitcom Friends. Gunther was a coffee shop worker at Central Perk who had unrequited love for Rachel Green, played by Jennifer Aniston.
Q. Where is the cafe from friends?
New York
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Q. Who owns Central Perk in real life?
A lot of Friends fans are under the impression that Gunther actually owns Central Perk, but that isn’t actually the case. While he certainly puts in a lot of hours at the coffee shop, it is actually Terry who owns it, and he does make two appearances in the show.
Q. What was Central Perk before it was a coffee shop?
In The One with the Flashback we find out that the coffee house was a bar before it became Central Perk and the friends hung out there.
Q. How much would Joey’s apartment cost?
They decided that that the apartment would cost—drumroll please—$4,500 a month. That’s pretty bleak, especially considering that at the time of the pilot, the Friends characters were supposed to be normal, everyday twenty-somethings just trying to scrape by.
Q. Is Joey’s apartment real?
While Central Perk exists solely on a Los Angeles soundstage, the space that would house the corner-side café below the building where Monica, Rachel, Chandler, and Joey lived is very much real.
Q. How did Ross afford his apartment?
Ross was making enough money to cover living in a one bedroom apartment and also got a better job during the series. Monica illegally sublet her apartment from her grandmother and also took advantage of rent control. Chandler was in a reasonably well paid job (and like his future wife got promoted. )
Q. How much was Chandler’s money?
Chandler was the steadiest earner throughout the show, thanks to his comfortable role as a IT procurement manager, and saw his paycheck rise gradually from $50,000 per year to $100,000, before it dropped sharply in the final season when he became an advertising copywriter.
