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    digitalhospitality

    Explore "digitalhospitality" with insightful episodes like "842: Delivering the Digital Restaurant with Meredith Sandland", "814: Zack Oates Founder and CEO of Ovation" and "Ghost Kitchens - The Future of BBQ | Shawn P. Walchef | Cali Comfort BBQ" from podcasts like ""Restaurant Unstoppable with Eric Cacciatore", "Restaurant Unstoppable with Eric Cacciatore" and "The Smoking Hot Confessions BBQ Podcast"" and more!

    Episodes (3)

    842: Delivering the Digital Restaurant with Meredith Sandland

    842: Delivering the Digital Restaurant with Meredith Sandland

    Meredith Sandland Restaurant Unstoppable Podcast

    With excitement allow me to introduce to you today’s guest, Meredith Sandland. Prior to co-authoring Delivering the Digital Restaurant: Your Roadmap to the Future of Food, Meredith spent two decades in consulting, corporate strategy, and restaurant development. After Building 1,000+ restaurants the Chief Development Officer at Yum! Brands’ Taco Bell, Meredith observed that the on-demand economy was starting to affect restaurants. Meredith joined ghost kitchen start-up, Kitchen United as employee #4 to create their business model, raise initial capital, and serve as the public face of the Google Venture-backed disruptor.

    Check out the book: Delivering The Digital Restaurant: Your Roadmap To The Future Of Food by Meredith Sandland and Carl Osbourn

    Show notes…

    Calls to ACTION!!!

    Favorite success quote or mantra:

    • “If your actions inspire others to dream more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.”

    In today's lecture with Meredith Sandland we will discuss:

    Today's sponsor:

    Diageo Bar Academy equips bartenders, servers, managers, and hospitality professionals with the insights, stories, and tools to be better - raising the bar on industry standards. Diageo Bar Academy reaches a diverse audience, with backgrounds and skill levels of all ranges- providing them with skills, knowledge, and the techniques they need to improve their personal and professional lives.

    Diageo Bar Academy Restaurant Unstoppable Podcast

    7shifts is a modern labor management platform, designed by restaurateurs, for restaurateurs. Effectively labor management is more important than ever to ensure profitability and restaurant success. Trusted by over 400,000 restaurant professionals, 7shifts gives you the tools you need to streamline labor operations, communicate with your team, and retain your talent. Best of all 7shifts integrates with the POS and Payroll systems you already use and trust (like Toast!) turning labor into a competitive advantage for your business. Restaurant Unstoppable members get 3 months, absolutely free.

    MarginEdge is completely free for new customers until September. No setup fees. No integration fees. No commitment. Take your back office paperwork down to 2-3 minutes a day while creating real-time financial views to inform your path ahead.

    Contact info:

    You can buy the book right here!

    Get the book straight from the authors at www.deliveringthedigitalrestaurant.com

    Check out learn.delivery

    Thanks for listening!

    Thanks so much for joining today! Have some feedback you’d like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below!

    If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the top of the post.

    Also, please leave an honest review for the Restaurant Unstoppable Podcast on iTunes! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them.

    And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates.

    Huge thanks to Meredith Sandland for joining me for another awesome episode. Until next time!

     

    Restaurant Unstoppable is a free podcast. One of the ways I'm able to make it free is by earning a commission when sharing certain products with you. I've made it a core value to only share tools, resources, and services my guest mentors have recommend, first. If you're finding value in my podcast, please use my links!

    814: Zack Oates Founder and CEO of Ovation

    814: Zack Oates Founder and CEO of Ovation

    Zack Oates Restaurant Unstoppable Podcast

    With Excitement Allow me to introduce to you today's guest, Founder and CEO of Ovation, Zack Oates. Zack Oates is an author, husband, father, entrepreneur, and hot tub aficionado (but not in that order, necessarily). He was voted Top 100 Entrepreneurs, rang the NASDAQ bell, won the world’s biggest business competition, and started 3 companies. He went on over 1,000 dates before he got married and wrote a book, Dating Never Works...Until it Does. He currently is Founder and CEO of Ovation, an actionable guest feedback platform for restaurants that specializes in text communication.

    Check out Zack's previous episode right here!

    Show notes…

    Calls to ACTION!!!

    Favorite success quote or mantra:

    • "Choose to live an extraordinary life for an ordinary one will always waiting."

    In today's episode with Zack Oates we will discuss:

    • Growing up in the hospitality industry
    • Mormonism
    • Why Zack created Ovation
    • What Ovation can provide to your business

    Today's sponsor:

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    Ovation: Recently voted the #1 guest feedback platform in a nationwide RestaurantOwner.com survey, Ovation uses a SMS-based survey as a “digital table touch” that has redefined guest feedback. Through frictionless integrations with online ordering platforms and other tools, Ovation allows you to easily collect guest feedback, resolve concerns in real-time, get more 5-star reviews, and uncover insights to improve brand-wide.  As a listener of Restaurant Unstoppable, you’ll receive 2,000 FREE text messages - contact our team!

    Ovation Restaurant Unstoppable Podcast

    Restaurant365 is a cloud-based, all-in-one, restaurant-specific accounting and back-office platform that seamlessly integrates with POS systems, payroll providers, food and beverage vendors. It generates accurate real-time reporting and analysis in user-friendly dashboards, facilitating immediate, data-driven decision making. Restaurant365 eliminates manual, error-prone processes and is designed to help restaurant businesses grow with functionality that helps optimize labor costs, reduce food costs and increase revenue.

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    Contact info:

    Email: zack@ovationup.com

    www.ovationup.com/unstoppable

    Thanks for listening!

    Thanks so much for joining today! Have some feedback you’d like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below!

    If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the top of the post.

    Also, please leave an honest review for the Restaurant Unstoppable Podcast on iTunes! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them.

    And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates.

    Huge thanks to Zack Oates for joining me for another awesome episode. Until next time!

     

    Restaurant Unstoppable is a free podcast. One of the ways I'm able to make it free is by earning a commission when sharing certain products with you. I've made it a core value to only share tools, resources, and services my guest mentors have recommend, first. If you're finding value in my podcast, please use my links!

    Ghost Kitchens - The Future of BBQ | Shawn P. Walchef | Cali Comfort BBQ

    Ghost Kitchens - The Future of BBQ | Shawn P. Walchef | Cali Comfort BBQ

    Ghost Kitchens - it sounds like a great name for a horror movie, but they could just be the future of BBQ. Shawn P. Walchef, founder of iconic California BBQ joint Cali Comfort BBQ is our guest on this incredible episode of the Smoking Hot Confessions BBQ Podcast. 

    A serial entrepreneur, Shawn also happens to be one of the best BBQ Pitmasters not just in San Diego, but on the West Coast, and his barbecue smoked meat, including brisket burnt ends are the stuff of barbeque legend. But that’s not it. He also loves digital media and fully believes that investing in digital technologies is essential to the longevity of barbeque businesses. His first foray into digital media was the award winning Behind the Smoke Podcast with friend and colleague Derek Marso. That show won Best Audio Series at the NBBQA Conference in 2019. At that point, Shawn founded Cali BBQ Media and the Behind the Smoke BBQ Podcast became the Digital Hospitality podcast. Then the world changed, and Shawn doubled down on the power of digital technology and has literally transformed Cali Comfort BBQ into something new and ready for the new world. 

    In this Episode of the Smoking Hot Confessions BBQ Podcast, Shawn and I get into:

    • His newest smoker, a Traeger (4:55)
    • The $5,000,001 business pitch to Amazon (7:51)
    • How Cali Comfort BBQ was founded (18:40)
    • The story of the Behind the Smoke Podcast and how it evolved into the Digital Hospitality Podcast (27:08)
    • How to set up a Ghost Kitchen (41:27)
    • Tips for Business Pitching (49:54)

    Barbe Con is coming soon - stay tuned for the confirmation of the date in July. 

    New to BBQ? Grab your free copy of our eBook 'The Beginners Guide to Real BBQ' at our website now:

    https://smokinghotconfessions.com 

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