Telly Justice & Camille Lindsley: Repel the Right People
08/28/2026
What if the customers you’re driving away are exactly why your restaurant works? Telly Justice and Camille Lindsley built HAGS into one of New York’s
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I Bought Dead Restaurant Domains for $5 Each and Outranked Everyone on Google in Two Weeks.
08/25/2026
Big SEO companies charge thousands a month for results that take six months. Dead restaurant domains cost $5 each and come with backlinks from Eater, the New York Times, and local bloggers. Permanent redirect to your site and you are on page one in two weeks. Plus schema hacking for LLMs, blogger outreach, and the earned media strategy that got three brands on KTLA every month.
Ashley Morris: Product-Market Fit Forgives Every Mistake
08/25/2026
What if the reason you survive your own mistakes has nothing to do with how smart you are, and everything to do with your product?
Nick Wong & Lisa Lee: We Opened at 40 on Purpose
08/21/2026
What if the smartest thing you can do for your restaurant is refuse to rush it? Nick Wong spent twenty years in kitchens like Momofuku
Nobody Is on Social Media to Find Their Next Restaurant. Here’s How to Make Them Find You Anyway.
08/18/2026
Social media is a low-intent platform. Nobody is scrolling Instagram looking for their next restaurant. The soap opera content framework tells three stories over six weeks: purpose, product, and people. Then a simple DM strategy converts engagement into 200 to 500 additional covers per month at a 20% conversion rate for zero dollars.
Ashley Morris: Product-Market Fit Forgives Every Mistake
08/25/2026
What if the reason you survive your own mistakes has nothing to do with how smart you are, and everything to do with your product?
Nick Wong & Lisa Lee: We Opened at 40 on Purpose
08/21/2026
What if the smartest thing you can do for your restaurant is refuse to rush it? Nick Wong spent twenty years in kitchens like Momofuku
Dave Shah & Camilla Caremoli: One Unforgettable Restaurant Beats Twenty
08/18/2026
What if the operators most likely to build something unforgettable are the ones who have never run a restaurant? Dave Shah and Camilla Caremoli had
Hamed Mazrouei: Thin Margins Are a Lie
08/14/2026
What if the thin margins crushing your restaurant aren’t the industry’s fault at all? Hamed Mazrouei came into restaurants as a total outsider. He built
Ryan Volberg: Double Revenue Without New Guests
08/11/2026
What if the new customers you keep chasing are the reason your restaurant isn’t growing? Ryan Volberg has spent more than two decades building the