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Month: May 2024

Restaurant Business: Crafting a Legacy with Ari Weinzweig & Natalie Reitman-White

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Considering your legacy and the legacy of the business you’ve worked so hard to build is a worthwhile effort. Today we chat with Ari Weinzweig of Zingerman's Deli who, after breaking every rule in the book to build his $75M empire, is choosing to give it all away. We’re also joined by Natalie Reitman-White who helped him accomplish this noble goal. This conversation proves that a vision for a better tomorrow leads to a better today.

You can reach out to Ari directly using the email address ari@zingermans.com. For Ari’s educational blog, click here. For more information on Natalie and Perpetual Purpose Trusts, visit https://www.alternativeownershipadvisors.com/.

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Restaurant Marketing: Source Collab’s Perfect Partnership Creation

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First who, then what. Who is going to help this restaurant succeed followed by what do we need to do to make this restaurant succeed. Few decisions in life matter more than who we decide to partner with professionally.

Today we chat with the team from Source Collab. A restaurant group helmed by Chef Amber, Cindy and Beth, three women from different backgrounds that have come together to create something incredibly special.

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For more on Source Collab visit https://sourcecollab.com

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Restaurant Consultant: Crafting Beverage Brands with Brett Lawrence & Stephen Young

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Knowing how to cook doesn’t mean you can farm and building a beverage brand is very different from building a restaurant. So, I’ve brought in some experts. Brett Lawrence and Stephen Young have not only built a successful hard seltzer brand, they built a brewery and a beer company before that. In today’s episode we leverage their years of experience to determine the path of least resistance when building our own brands.

For more on Elephant Craft Seltzer visit https://elephantcraftseltzer.com

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Full Comp brought to you by Yelp for Restaurants: In July 2020, a few hundred employees formed Yelp for Restaurants. Our goal is to build tools that help restaurateurs do more with limited time.

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Restaurant Consulting: Elliott Bisnow’s Bold Planning Philosophy

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Do you run your restaurant or does your restaurant run your life. As entrepreneurs, we build these businesses with a singular goal in mind: freedom. But how many of us are really free?

Today we chat with Elliott Bisnow, co-founder of Summit and author of Make No Small Plans, a book about building a great business and a great life. In our conversation, Elliott breaks down the key decisions that led to his success so that we too can enjoy the freedom that we deserve.

Pick up your copy of Make No Small Plans wherever books are sold.

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Full Comp brought to you by Yelp for Restaurants: In July 2020, a few hundred employees formed Yelp for Restaurants. Our goal is to build tools that help restaurateurs do more with limited time.

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Restaurant Business Plan: Karl & Sarah Worley’s Blueprint

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Great restaurants stem from running great businesses and today we’re going to talk about the business of running restaurants. Our guides on this exploration of what a successful business plan looks like will be Karl and Sarah Worley, a married couple who turned their love of biscuits into a thriving restaurant brand.

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They’ve built their business on the back of foundational principles and bleeding edge management strategies that have revolutionized their lives and their restaurant. Today we unpack the tactics, tools and strategies they’ve used to scale Biscuit Love from a food truck into a regional brand.

For more on Biscuit Love visit https://www.biscuitlove.com

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Full Comp is brought to you by Yelp for Restaurants: In July 2020, a few hundred employees formed Yelp for Restaurants. Our goal is to build tools that help restaurateurs do more with limited time.

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Restaurant Business Plan: Susan Sarich’s Success Planning Tips

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We all hope to be successful, but how many of us plan to be successful? Susan Sarich of SusieCakes took the time to plan every aspect of her restaurant. The research and development that went into her business plan resulted in the success she had after opening.

Having weathered two economic disasters and with dozens of locations under her belt, her plan seems bulletproof and, in today’s episode, we walk through that plan step by step.

For more on SusieCakes Bakery, visit susiecakes.com.

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Full Comp is brought to you by Yelp for Restaurants: In July 2020, a few hundred employees formed Yelp for Restaurants. Our goal is to build tools that help restaurateurs do more with limited time.

We have a lot more content coming your way! Be sure to check out our other shows:

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Restaurant Consultant: Steven Salm’s Cool Vegan Food Movement

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What comes to mind when you hear the words “vegan food.” For many of us, it’s burlap clothing and plates made of cardboard, but Steven Salm is out to change that. Steven founded Planta, a vegan restaurant that transcends every boundary placed on that genre of food. The branding, the buildout, and the culinary program all speak to what it is: one of the most compelling restaurant concepts in the last 20 years–even for carnivores. In our conversation today, we unpack the strategy he developed and executed to bring veganism into the mainstream on a national level.

For more information on Planta, visit https://www.plantarestaurants.com/.

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Full Comp is brought to you by Yelp for Restaurants: In July 2020, a few hundred employees formed Yelp for Restaurants. Our goal is to build tools that help restaurateurs do more with limited time.

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Restaurant Business: Maximizing Your Wine Program with Greg Martellotto

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Creating and maintaining a great and profitable wine program at my restaurant proved an impossible task. Folks spend their lives working to understand the intricacies of wine and I don’t even drink wine. I know I’m not alone and, as we all begin the process of reopening, I wanted to bring in a friend and an expert to offer best practices.

Greg Martellotto is the guy. He’s got his own winery. He’s got his own direct to consumer wine business and he sells and works with some of the best restaurants in California. Today he unpacks how to conceptualize and execute a great and profitable wine program.

That’s Greg Martellotto. For more on Greg’s company go to www.martellotto.com

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Restaurant Profit Margin: Jenner Tomaska & Katrina Bravo of Esmé

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There’s a new breed of restaurateur and it’s pretty exciting to see. A younger generation bringing the best of the past together with a new vision of the future.

Today we chat with Chicago power couple Jenner Tomaska and Katria Bravo in the weeks before the opening of their new restaurant. These two cut their teeth in some of the best restaurants in the country and today they’re sharing the lessons from the past that helped them create the future of fine dining.

For more on Jenner Tomaska and Katria Bravo go to https://www.esmechicago.com

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Restaurant Business Plan Template: Chef Rob Rubba’s Sustainability Redefinition

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James Beard award-winning chef Rob Rubba seems to have it all: a blockbuster restaurant that’s great for the environment, a happy staff, and a work-life balance that most of us would kill for. None of this happened by accident. In today’s conversation, we sat down with the chef to discuss how he architected the life and career of his dreams through the intentional peeling away of everything that did not serve him, his team, or the environment.

That’s Chef Rob Rubba. For more information on the chef and his restaurant, visit https://www.oysteroysterdc.com/.

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Full Comp is brought to you by Yelp for Restaurants: In July 2020, a few hundred employees formed Yelp for Restaurants. Our goal is to build tools that help restaurateurs do more with limited time.

We have a lot more content coming your way! Be sure to check out our other content:

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Restaurant expert videos & webinars

Restaurant Business: Beyond Eggs – Ricky Richardson’s Success Story

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What does restaurant college look like? Where would you go if you wanted to learn how to create a sustainable business and a global restaurant brand? If you said TGI Fridays, today’s guest, Ricky Richardson would agree with you. Over his decades long career at TGI Fridays, Ricky learned the tactics, tools, and strategies that this massive company used to take over the globe. He then turned around and used that same blueprint to help scale Eggs Up Grill into a regional giant. Today, he shares that blueprint with us.

For more information on Eggs Up Grill, visit https://eggsupgrill.com/.

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Full Comp is brought to you by Yelp for Restaurants: In July 2020, a few hundred employees formed Yelp for Restaurants. Our goal is to build tools that help restaurateurs do more with limited time.

We have a lot more content coming your way! Be sure to check out our other shows:

Restaurant Marketing School

Restaurant expert videos & webinars

Restaurant Consulting: Sandra Noonan’s Sustainability Strategies

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Sandra Noonan is running a tech startup within the fast casual concept Just Salad. She works on the bleeding edge of sustainability, pushing towards a restaurant model that serves the needs of our planet as well as it serves her guests. It hasn’t been an easy road and today Sandra walks us through what’s worked, what hasn’t and what we can do to help usher in the future of sustainable living.

For more on Just Salad visit https://www.justsalad.com

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Full Comp is brought to you by Yelp for Restaurants: In July 2020, a few hundred employees formed Yelp for Restaurants. Our goal is to build tools that help restaurateurs do more with limited time.

We have a lot more content coming your way! Be sure to check out our other shows:

Restaurant Marketing School

Restaurant expert videos & webinars

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