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Kim Alter: Control Is the Growth Strategy
Season 15 Episode 201
What if the smartest restaurant you could open wasn’t the biggest, busiest, or most celebrated, but the one you could control?
Kim Alter didn’t build …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
How to Build a Restaurant That Can Survive: Dan Simons of Founding Farmers
Season 15 Episode 200
Dan Simons had the systems. He had the corporate restaurant training. He had the operational discipline. And his first independent restaurant still f…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Peter Wright: Stop Chasing New Customers
Season 15 Episode 199
What if the biggest risk in scaling your restaurant isn’t the market, but the people you trust to grow it?
Peter Wright has spent decades inside brand…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
How to Build a Restaurant People Actually Want: Josh Halpern, Big Chicken & Craveworthy Brands
Season 15 Episode 198
Celebrity can create trial. It cannot create loyalty.
Josh Halpern helped take Big Chicken from 2 units to nearly 50, but in this conversation he is c…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
No Classics, No Apologies: Jenn Saesue & Chat Suansilphong on the Identity-First Strategy That Built Their Empire
Season 15 Episode 197
What if the fastest way to stand out in a crowded market is to say no to the one thing everyone expects?
Jenn Saesue and Chat Suansilphong didn’t just…
5 months ago
How to Build a Restaurant People Can Remember: Scott Snyder, Badass Coffee of Hawaii
Season 15 Episode 196
Most restaurant brands think their problem is sales. Scott Snyder thought he was walking into a franchise sales problem at Badass Coffee of Hawaii. W…
5 months ago
Your Best-Selling Dishes Might Be Killing Your Restaurant: Amanda Maneesilasan on Letting Go to Level Up
Season 15 Episode 195
What if the very thing you’re afraid to remove is what’s holding your restaurant back?
Amanda Maneesilasan didn’t plan to take over her family’s resta…
5 months, 1 week ago
Ditch the Storefront: Michael Russo on Going Where Customers Are, Failing with Discipline, and Building a Franchise That Scales
Season 15 Episode 194
What if the biggest mistake in your business model is having a fixed address?
Most operators spend their careers fighting for foot traffic. Michael Ru…
5 months, 1 week ago
Trends Fade, Essentials Don't: Koji Kanematsu on Patience, Painful Pivots, and Building a Concept That Lasts
Season 15 Episode 193
What if your biggest problem isn’t awareness—it’s that people try your food and don’t come back?
Koji Kanematsu set out to bring onigiri to the Americ…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Stop Planning, Start Serving: Matt Jozwiak on Turning Action into Impact and Scaling a New Restaurant Economy
Season 15 Episode 192
What if the real advantage isn’t better strategy… it’s faster action?
Matt Jozwiak, founder of Rethink Food, built a movement by rejecting perfection …
5 months, 2 weeks ago