Tag: Restaurant Consultant

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 margins allow for a lot of trial and error so I reached out to Michael Dorf, the founder of City Winery.

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Michael has created the perfect experience for his target market blending an elevated food menu with an in house winery and live entertainment. It’s exactly what his customers want and today he’s going to unpack how you can use the same formula to find out exactly what your customers want.

For more on City Winery visit https://www.citywinery.com/

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Today we speak with Mindy Segal, James Beard award winner and successful restaurateur about her own personal revelations and the massive impact it had on her life, her business and her team.

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For more her restaurant go to https://www.mindysbakery.com

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Who taught you how to be a great restaurateur? Was that person truly great in their role? Were you a truly great student in that season of your life?

Today we chat with Mario Del Pero, an objectively great restaurateur and entrepreneur who took the initiative to learn from great restaurateurs. In our conversation, he walks us along the path that led Mendocino Farms to 42 locations and the amazing opportunities that have come after that massive success.

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For more on Mendocino Farms or Dom Food Group click the links in the show notes.

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Where do you go to learn? A podcast is great but it’s far from collaborative and certainly not an immersive experience, despite my best efforts. My answer to that question is a no brainer: The MAD Academy.

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And today we speak with it’s executive director Melina Shannon-DiPietro who’s working to fill in the gaps between what we know and what we need to know to truly thrive as an industry.

That’s Melina Shannon-DiPietro. For more on MAD and the MAD Academy visit https://madfeed.co

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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 best operators this industry has ever seen.

Meet David Birzon, the CEO of Snooze, who took a good business and scaled it into a great company. In our conversation we talk about what it takes to scale a concept centered around community, sustainability and profitability.

For more on Snooze visit https://www.snoozeeatery.com

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I know you want to become a better restaurateur. That’s why you tune in every week. And I hope this helps but there are countless resources out there at our disposal.

Today we chat with one of the best restaurateurs I know, Maddie Alfano. In our conversation, she unpacks how she got so damn good at becoming great so that you and I can level up too.

For more on her restaurant visit https://mariasitaliankitchen.com

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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 our communities and few places more beautifully illustrate this capacity to change more than Portland, Oregon.

Today’s we chat with, Portland’s adopted son, Celebrity Chef Gregory Gourdet. Instead of staking his claim in his hometown of New York or following the trends out to Los Angeles, Gregory has chosen to walk a more complicated path, using this talent and his food to help mend together a community that is still struggling to become the best version of itself.

For more on the chef visit https://www.gregorygourdet.com

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Michael Mina is the best in the biz. He’s mastered excellence at scale. What’s equally impressive is that he’s done it alongside his partner Patric Yumul for the last 20 years.

Think about how much our industry has changed in the last 20 years. Today, the three of us reflect back on their decades long partnership together and look forward to the next chapter of their partnership.

For more on the Mina Group go to https://www.michaelmina.net

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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 Benson Tsai an engineer turned restaurateur who took top talent from SpaceX and leveraged their genius to create an autonomous pizzeria.

Today we discuss the jobs his robots are taking and the opportunities that presents for all of us.

For more on Stellar Pizza visit https://www.eatstellarpizza.com

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You are in for a treat today. The conversation you’re about to hear was one of the most educational experiences I’ve had since starting the show. T.K. Pillan is not of our industry but that has resulted in him creating a blockbuster concept by taking a different approach to restaurant operations and marketing.

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Today he unpacks the strategies he used to scale Veggie Grill nationally.

For more on Veggie Grill go to https://veggiegrill.com

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So you’ve been thinking about it. You keep staring at that vat of hot sauce that you make from scratch every week and you’re wondering how well it would do at your local grocery store.

Today we’re talking with my buddy Billy Bosch of Iconic Protein who can offer some useful insight. Billy has taken the consumer packaged goods market by storm and in our conversation today he unpacks the process of going from an idea to the shelves of the most notable stores in the country.

For more on his products visit https://www.drinkiconic.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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