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Go Small to Get Big: Ed Szymanski & Patricia Howard of Dame
Season 5 Episode 3
How many articles have you read about "the restaurant of the future?" It conjures visions of robot cooks and digital menus but no one really talks ab…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Future of Farm to Table: Loren and Lisa Poncia of Stemple Creek Ranch
Season 5 Episode 2
Change is in the air. We've felt it coming for years and we see it happening before our eyes in this moment. Today's buzzwords were the dreams of inn…
5 years, 3 months ago
Leaning in to the Life You Want: Celebrity Chef Claudette Zepeda of Vaga Restaurant & Bar
Season 5 Episode 1
We've all been burned. A bad business plan, a bad business partner, a global pandemic...
What happens next is what defines our lives and our careers.…
5 years, 3 months ago
Beverage Trends Mirroring Social Trends: Sahra Nguyen of Nguyen Coffee Supply
Season 4 Episode 32
Layers. Great storytelling has tons of them. As restaurateurs we create these layers through food, beverage and ambiance to draw our guests into our …
5 years, 3 months ago
Mastering Delegation & The Blueprint for Excellence: Cameron Herold of the COO Alliance
Season 4 Episode 31
Cameron Herold has built three companies valued at $100M each. His superpower is getting shit done. He's an operator of the highest caliber that is r…
5 years, 3 months ago
Moving Towards Sustainability: Anthony Myint of Zero Foodprint
Season 4 Episode 30
April of 2020 was going to be a magical month for my restaurant. We had spent over a year working towards carbon neutrality and that was the month we…
5 years, 3 months ago
Turning a $3000 Investment Into a Billion Dollar Company: Ken Grossman, founder of Sierra Nevada Brewing
Season 4 Episode 29
Ken Grossman is a craft brewing pioneer. In the late 1970's, he, along with about half a dozen other brewers, started the first craft breweries in th…
5 years, 3 months ago
Doubling Down on Industry Fundamentals : Dustin Valette of The Matheson
Season 4 Episode 28
Go big or go home. Remember those days? It seems a lot of folks have changed their minds. Restaurants with small footprints small menus are popping u…
5 years, 3 months ago
Scaling Core Values: John Cappasola, CEO of Del Taco
Season 4 Episode 27
As a business, creating and living by core values is a full time job. It's a choice that changes the very genetic code of our restaurants. When done …
5 years, 3 months ago
Single Location to International Brand: Mark Kelegian of Randy's Donuts
Season 4 Episode 26
For 50 years, Randy's Donuts has been a Los Angeles staple. The iconic giant donut seated above the restaurant can be seen for miles and on the big s…
5 years, 3 months ago