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🎙️Ep. 17 Brick and Mortar Restaurant | Expanding into franchising - Hellman’s Kitchen Veteran Foodie Podcast

🇺🇸In this episode I hosted Carrie, Marine Veteran who runs Rally Point Grille with her Marine Vet husband.

We talk about:

✅ Building a community for Veterans at her restaurant
✅ The process of franchising
✅ How leveraging your resources will make you successful in business 

Website: www.rallypointgrille.com
Instagram: @semperfibar15

🇺🇸 Hellman’s Kitchen Veteran Foodie Podcast is led by U.S. Coast Guard Veteran Steven Hellman. The mission is to educate Military connected food & beverage business owners by spotlighting other entrepreneurs who share their experience/advice. 

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Thank you to Let’s Chow for sponsoring this podcast episode.

Did you realize a staggering 24% of Military families face food insecurity? This is why Let's Chow has united myself, Stronghold Pantry, and comedian @ashgutermuth to address this serious problem. Through our partnership we are teaching Military families how to make affordable, healthy dinners at home. We are proud to promote culinary education, financial empowerment, and community engagement for our nation’s veterans, service members, and their families. 

💰 For just $4 you can "Pay it Four-ward" by donating at www.LetsChow.org and pay for someone's meal. It takes just $4 to prepare a hot, restaurant quality style meal for someone in need and that meal also provides 15 training minutes to the veterans and military spouses in the training program. 

Guest Chef Danny Ganem of Miami's Fiola dishes it all. His quest to be the best he can be, as a father, chef, and mentor, leaves no stone unturned. Focused and methodical, Ganem is slowly paving the way to a brighter future.

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This episode begins with a background on Ben's journey into professional kitchens. Joe and Ben discuss the crème brulee dish Ben created at the Dancing Marlin. They then move on to Ben's time at Band of Bohemia, his first fine-dining experience in Chicago. From Band of Bohemia, Ben moved on to Boka during the pandemic, and realizing where he wanted to take his career, left to join the staff at Gadabout last fall. Ben shares his thoughts on working in fine-dining and what lessons he learned from his time there; the guys also discuss spring produce in the midwest like ramps and asparagus. They pivot to talking about the most recent trend in the restaurant industry of pickled and fermented everything. Ben ends talking about his favorite meal to make for his wife and where he hopes to take his career in the future.

An honest and candid look at some of the Miami restaurants we visited this February:

Stubborn Seed
Forte by Chef Adrianne
Chotto Mate
Nossa Omakase
Perl
Caviar Russe
Ariete
Orno

Once again, the hubs and dining partner-in-crime, Lawrence, joins me as co-host for this developing Miami restaurant review series.

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Racial inequity can be found across industries in America, but hospitality is a particular microcosm where power imbalances, lack of HR support, and attitudes towards service professionals can make for particularly challenging dynamics for BIPOC staff. In this episode, host Kiki Louya hears from Raeghn Draper, founder of the Chicago Hospitality Accountable Actions Database (CHAAD), about the chain of events set off by a racist diner. Mavis-Jay Sanders, Director of Culinary Development and Education at Drive Change weighs in on the intersecting challenges faced by Queer people of color; she also shares insights into how restaurants can create supportive and equitable working environments for all.

Learn more about Raeghn Draper and on CHAAD’s website. To explore the resources provided by Drive Change and Mavis-Jay Sanders, go to drivechangenyc.org.

You can explore additional resources mentioned below:

Hospitality for Social Justice

High Road Restaurants

Adding Racial Equity to the Menu: An Equity Toolkit  

To learn more about RWCF’s work and donate to the cause, visit www.restaurantworkerscf.org.

Carlos Luciano created our episode artwork.

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In an industry with a culture of hustling, difficult hours, low hourly pay, and little-to-no health coverage, mental health challenges run rampant. But there are a few committed individuals and organizations that offer support and models of change to the hospitality industry and its workers. They’re tackling addiction support and destigmatizing the need for mental health counseling. In this episode, host Kiki Louya hears from Chef Brother Luck who shares his own struggles with mental illness at a time when his career was at its peak. Kristina Magro, co-founder of Support Staff sits down for a conversation about the work that needs to be done to empower industry professionals, from back of house to management, to make necessary changes for workers mental health.

Learn more about Brother Luck in this essay published through the James Beard Foundation. To explore the work that Kristina Magro and her team at Support Staff do, check out pleasehustleresponsibly.org. 

You can explore additional resources mentioned below:

CHOW

Ben’s Friends

Heard

Restaurant After Hours

To learn more about RWCF’s work and donate to the cause, visit www.restaurantworkerscf.org.

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Andy Atkins and Cody Driggers from the Bad Luck Burger Club super secret pop-up in Nashville join the show to share more about their burger business with YOU!

Both Andy and Cody are griddle masters, slinging the best smash patty burgers in Music City. The duo has a fun story and let's us peek behind the curtain of their super secret club (it's actually not a secret and you should be a part of it if you live in Central Tennessee)

We talk about how they got their start cooking on flat top griddles, how the curated a brand that has just exploded in Nashville and what their future plans are for Bad Luck Burgers.

This was a fun one... enjoy!

This episode of THE Underground Source of El Paso, TX features Javier Martinez and Jorge Morales - co-owners of Cheezus - El Paso's house of exotic grilled cheese sandwiches! They talk about starting Cheezus and evolving the biz from a popular food truck and pop up to a cool spot in downtown on 210 N. Stanton. You'll have intense Cheezus cravings once this interview is over!

 Follow Cheezus on Instagram - @cheezus_915 -

 This episode produced by M. De Santiago, R. 'Sucio' Chacon and G. Armendariz. Hosted by R. 'Sucio' Chacon. Intro/outro music by J. 'DreamPill' Castro. Cover photograph is the Cheezus god mural found inside Cheezus! Rated CHLL.

Michelin rated restaurateur, Josh Kopel of Preux & Proper in Los Angeles and host of the FULL COMP podcast, recently joined the Wicked Tasty Podcast for a wide-ranging interview centered around lessons he has learned from the industries brightest minds like Jon Taffer, Andrew Zimmern & Jet Tila, pandemic pivots that have worked, and the importance of running a culture first, data driven restaurant. 

Since the last time we saw you, the world turned upside down with the arrival of COVID-19. As Virginia restaurants either close or adapt to social distancing, Robey and Scott focused this week's podcast on the people who continued to run their restaurants with the hope of providing for both their restaurant families and the communities in which they serve.

This week's guests include:

Lee Gregory - Alewife

Jessica Bufford - Toast

Donnie Glass - Grisette

Michael Smith - Laura Lee's

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Chris Stang is the co-founder and CEO of The Infatuation, a restaurant recommendation website and messaging service based in New York. They are most known for publishing restaurant reviews and guides, and as creators of the hashtag #EEEEEATS. In 2018, the company acquired the Zagat rating company from Google.

Chris grew up in Denver and found his way into the music industry after a stint in college radio, working in promotion and marketing for 12 years at Atlantic Records alongside massive acts such as Skrillex, Coldplay, Matchbox Twenty, Bruno Mars, and Santigold.

In 2009, he had an idea to launch a food blog with his now partner, Andrew Steinthal. After some early growth, they both decided to leave their corporate jobs in the midst of their careers to dive into the world of startups. Since then, they’ve grown a loyal community in over 20 cities worldwide and raised millions of dollars in funding (most recently, a $30 million round from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo).

In this episode, Pat and Posh hung out with Chris during one of his trips to LA to learn about his upbringing, experience working in the music industry, the early days of launching The Infatuation, and how he’s been able to manage the company’s massive growth. Chris also shares why they acquired Zagat, the parallels between music and business, the lessons he’s learned as a founder and leader, the next wave of innovation in the food industry, and what’s coming next from The Infatuation and Zagat.

Fun fact: The Infatuation was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2014 for writing a review of a fake restaurant called Underfinger!

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In this episode, Pat and Posh hang with the co-founder and CEO of Tender Greens, Erik Oberholtzer, at their HQ to learn the story of how the executive chef turned restaurateur successfully launched and grew a chef-led food concept that never existed before at the intersection of fine dining and quick-serve.

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