Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRaise the Bar: Heidi Whitcomb's Mission to Bring Heart Back to Hospitality
Episode 620
Episode Summary
In this heartfelt episode of Restaurant Owners Uncorked, host Wil chats with Heidi Whitcomb a passionate and deeply committed independ…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Restaurants Save People: The Jeffrey Boland Story
Episode 619
Wil talks to Jeffrey Boland, Director of Operations at Mac’s Hospitality Group (home of Mac’s Speed Shop and South 48/Southbound concepts). Jeff shar…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Brewello: Simple Tech That Helps Independent Cafés Thrive
Episode 618
Wil sits down with Tim Wittman, a Denver-based developer and founder of Brewello, a white-label mobile app built for independent cafés and bakeries. …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Food That Feels as Good as It Tastes: The Village Juice & Kitchen Story with Lonnie Atkinson & Clyde Harris
Episode 617
Summary
On this Restaurant Owners Uncorked episode, Wil talks with Village Juice & Kitchen cofounders Clyde Harris and Lonnie Atkinson about building …
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Building Community, One Table at a Time: Ken Stemke, Main Street Social, Libertyville, IL
Episode 616
Wil welcomes guest Ken Stemke, owner of Main Street Social in Libertyville, IL, an upscale Italian-American restaurant with its own wine label. Ken t…
9 months ago
From Red Tape to Real Help: Emily Williams Knight of the Texas Restaurant Association on Fixing the Squeeze
Episode 615
Wil sits down with Emily Williams Knight, CEO of the Texas Restaurant Association (TRA), which represents 58,000 restaurants, 1.4M employees, and ne…
9 months ago
Built from Scratch: Chris Moran on How Bullet Grill House Became a Lake-Town Anchor
Episode 614
Wil sits down with Chris Moran, owner of Bullet Grill House in Point Blank, Texas—an hour north of Houston by Lake Livingston. Chris traces a winding…
9 months, 1 week ago
From Door Hangers to Franchise Owners: Edward & My’s Pizza Guys Playbook
Episode 613
Edward (26) and Myi (27) went from hanging door flyers and delivering pies in high school to owning two Pizza Guys franchises in California’s Inland …
9 months, 1 week ago
Discipline, Storytelling, Failure, and the Fibonacci Sequence: Inside Chef Sam Hart's Vision
Episode 612
Sam Hart's journey into hospitality is a story of resilience, risk-taking, and reinvention. After dropping out of college multiple times and living o…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Buying the Past, Serving the Future: Saving Legacy Restaurants, Anthony Hamilton, Icon Group Hospitality
Episode 611
Wil talks with Anthony Hamilton of Icon Group Hospitality about building people-first restaurant businesses that last. They riff on digital minimalis…
9 months, 2 weeks ago