Episode Details

In this episode of 87:60, BJ Kito sits down with Andy Pforzheimer, founder and former CEO of bartaco and Barcelona Wine Bar, to talk about his journey from working in a restaurant to building two businesses from the ground up. Andy discusses his experience with successfully scaling restaurants, what he thinks makes a “decent human being,” and the business fallacy that is quantity over quality. His original plan didn’t include expansion and happened naturally as the restaurant refined their model by focusing on a specific, well-executed concept. The conversation explores the value of fostering a viable work environment, recognizing your business demographic, and the issue with transactionalizing hospitality.