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The Business of Being a Chef: David LeFevre of Simms Restaurants
Season 7 Episode 23
Celebrity Chef David LeFevre is a damn good chef and he's applauded nationally for that. But the chef is also a prolific businessman who's dedicated …
4 years, 6 months ago
An Old Restaurant with New Tricks: Matt Kirschner of Red Knapps Dairy Bar
Season 7 Episode 22
The young guns in are industry are full of new ideas. They're creating an entirely new business model for restaurants centered around media and the d…
4 years, 6 months ago
Scaling a Family Business: David Birzon of Snooze
Season 7 Episode 21
50 locations in 15 years. That's massive growth. Snooze is a restaurant born from the dreams of two brothers that became the mission of one of the be…
4 years, 6 months ago
A Bulletproof Business Model: Michael Dorf of City Winery
Season 7 Episode 20
People post pandemic want an experience. Have you heard that before? But what kind of experience do they want?
This isn't an industry where the marg…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Art of Selling Out: Alex Jacobs, Guto Araki and Joey Rubin of Biite Club
Season 7 Episode 19
It's a risk to get into this industry. It's a risk to open your own restaurant. And, for most of us, after we've taken those two big risks, our appet…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Prince of Portland: Celebrity Chef Gregory Gourdet
Season 7 Episode 18
When you open a restaurant you've investing in more than a business, you're investing in a community. As we change and evolve as individuals so do ou…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Robots Have Arrived: Benson Tsai of Stellar Pizza
Season 7 Episode 17
For years we've heard the tales of the days that robots would come to take our jobs. Well that day is today.
On this episode we're chatting with Bens…
4 years, 7 months ago
New Service Standards: Mike Connelly of Urban Plates
Season 7 Episode 16
We know that there's restaurant tech out there that can make our jobs easier. There's tech out there that makes our customer's job a bit easier too.
…4 years, 7 months ago
The Art of Recovery: Isaac Toups of Toups' Meatery
Season 7 Episode 15
The pandemic decimated our industry on a global scale and, for many of us, it was the first time that mother nature played a major role in the way we…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Evolution of Tourism: Rafat Ali of Skift
Season 7 Episode 14
We talk every week about the changes occurring in the restaurant industry. And that makes sense because we work in the restaurant industry. But few t…
4 years, 7 months ago