The Cutting Onions Podcast

Bobby Shaw
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On the Cutting Onions Podcast, restaurant executives Bobby Shaw and Myles Gift celebrate leaders and organizations that build strong people cultures that develop other leaders. Bobby and Myles interview leaders who have built amazing cultures in their organizations through developing great leaders who produce amazing results, the right way.

  1. 5d ago

    121. Bobby & Myles talk Success vs. Significance

    In today's episode of The Cutting Onions Podcast, Myles and I shift the conversation from Success = what you accomplish for yourself to Significance = the positive impact you have on others. Here is some of what we tackle in this episode:  The Sustainability Gap: Success without significance often leads to burnout and rapid decline in the hospitality industry. Leaders focused solely on personal success fail to build the culture and infrastructure required for long-term growth.The Significance Sacrifice: True significance requires being intentional enough to develop people who may eventually become better than you. We also discuss: Leadership Legacy Through PeopleYour greatest career accomplishments have very little to do with yourselfLegacy only lives beyond you if it’s built into other people Building Future Leaders, Not FollowersDevelop leadership capacity, not dependencyCelebrate leaders who develop people better than themselves; make it a cultural honorHolding People Back vs. Empowering ThemLesson: don’t let your need to feel indispensable block someone else’s growth Giving Freedom Without Losing AccountabilityDeveloping people takes more time than just giving someone the answersUndermanagement and overmanagement: both are failures in leadership This was a fun conversation, and we hope you find it inspiring and helpful as you think about your leadership legacy through the people you have developed throughout your career.

  2. Oct 23

    120. Building a Restaurant Company: The Grit, Growth, and Leadership Behind the Brand with Teneshia Murray Butler

    On this episode of The Cutting Onions Podcast, Myles and I are excited to share our conversation with Teneshia Murray Butler, an entrepreneur and restaurateur making a lot of noise in the Atlanta restaurant scene. She is the owner of T's Brunch Bar and T's Burger Bar. But that is just the start of Teneshia's story. What makes Teneshia's story so interesting isn't just the restaurants she's built. She's spent more than two decades as an entrepreneur, building businesses across multiple industries, navigating growth challenges, and creating restaurant concepts people genuinely get excited about. She's also passionate about mentoring other entrepreneurs and giving back to the communities that support her businesses. And we're going to get into all of it today. This was an incredibly fun and inspiring conversation, and we can't wait for you to hear it!

    120. Building a Restaurant Company: The Grit, Growth, and Leadership Behind the Brand with Teneshia Murray Butler

  3. Oct 11

    119. The Real Cost of Leadership Silence

    Have you ever stopped to think about how much damage a conversation that never happens can do? Not something someone said. Not a bad decision someone made. But something that needed to be said, and wasn't. In this episode of The Cutting Onions Podcast, Myles and I dig into a leadership challenge that we believe has quietly destroyed more trust, damaged more cultures, and driven away more talented people than most of us would care to admit. We're talking about the real cost of leadership silence. Check out this episode wherever you consume your podcast content.

  4. Oct 4

    118. Bobby & Myles talk about C-Store vs. QSR competition

    What if one of the biggest threats to the quick-service restaurant industry isn’t another restaurant at all?   Welcome back to The Cutting Onions Podcast. Today, Myles Gift and I are talking about something that I think restaurant operators need to be paying a lot more attention to: the evolution of the convenience store.   The timing of this conversation was pretty incredible. For the last year Myles has been an executive for a premium C-Store company, and he and I have been talking about this very topic for a while. This week, Nation's Restaurant News published an excellent article highlighting new Technomic, Inc. research around C-stores and their growing competition with QSR, which we use as a springboard for this conversation.   And the numbers are pretty eye-opening.   Today’s convenience store isn’t just a place to get gas, a bag of chips, and a fountain drink. These companies are investing in kitchens, chefs, equipment, digital ordering, menu innovation, and, maybe most importantly, the guest experience.   And here’s the big question we get into today:   If a customer can get fresh, quality food quickly and conveniently somewhere else, does it really matter whether that place calls itself a restaurant?   We talk about Casey’s selling tens of millions of pizzas, why C-stores may actually understand the human ordering experience better than some restaurant brands, and what restaurant leaders can learn from an industry that already owns millions of customer visits every single day.   We hope you enjoy this conversation. You can find this episode wherever you consume your podcast content.

  5. Sep 28

    117. Tim Robinson talks about Leadership, Career Lessons, and Being Present

    On this episode of The Cutting Onions Podcast, Myles and I sit down with my longtime friend and former Freebirds colleague, Tim Robinson.   I’ve known Tim since 2013, and we worked closely together across Operations and Finance during my time at Freebirds. His career has taken him through restaurant operations, professional sports, finance, supply chain, procurement, and FP&A, and he brings a rare ability to understand both the four walls and the numbers behind the business.   Today, Tim serves as Director of Procurement and Director of FP&A for Swensons Drive-Ins. In this episode, we talk about leadership, culture, career lessons, being present, baseball, and what Tim has learned from a career spent seeing the restaurant business from just about every angle.  I promise, you don't want to miss this episode.

    117. Tim Robinson talks about Leadership, Career Lessons, and Being Present

  6. Sep 18

    116. Leadership, Vulnerability, Failure, and the Stories We Don't Tell.

    We live in a world where everybody is building in public. We're sharing our accomplishments, our wins, our new businesses, and our successes. And that is great to do, of course.   But we have been asking ourselves this question: Why are we so comfortable building in public, but we fail in private?   Most leaders, including us, have failed, and in some cases spectacularly so. But rarely do leaders share that story.   Which got us thinking. Are we doing a disservice to the people coming up behind us by only sharing the highlight reel?   So today, we want to talk about failure, vulnerability, and why maybe the stories we're most uncomfortable telling are the stories somebody else needs to hear.

  7. Aug 20

    115. Aaron Anderson, franchisor of Sunrise Social joins us today to talk about his unique point of view as a Franchisee and a Franchisor.

    Welcome back to The Cutting Onions Podcast.Today’s conversation is one Myles and I have really been looking forward to because our guest has experienced the restaurant business from almost every angle.Aaron Anderson has been a franchisee, a multi-unit restaurant operator, a concept creator, an entrepreneur and now a franchisor.He’s operated brands including Rita’s Italian Ice and The Original Hot Dog Factory, experimented with ghost kitchens, created Brunchaholics, and ultimately evolved that concept into Sunrise Social.And we think what makes Aaron’s story especially interesting is that he didn’t just study franchising from the outside.He lived it first as the person buying into someone else’s system, and now he’s sitting on the other side of the table building one of his own.So today we’re going to talk about restaurants, entrepreneurship, scaling, franchising, leadership, and mistakes, and what it really takes to turn a great concept into a great company.We loved this conversation with Aaron and know you will too.You can enjoy this episode wherever you listen to podcasts.

    115. Aaron Anderson, franchisor of Sunrise Social joins us today to talk about his unique point of view as a Franchisee and a Franchisor.

  8. Aug 14

    114. Carlo D'Amore, Founder of Live In Theatre, Talks about the Importance of Play and the Power of Story

    Welcome back to The Cutting Onions Podcast. Myles and I are so excited to present this conversation with Carlo D’Amore.Carlo is an actor, playwright, director, producer, experience designer, and the founder/creative director of Live In Theater (LIT). His professional theater career spans more than three decades and includes Broadway appearances in Summer and Smoke and Latinologues, as well as Off-Broadway, regional theater, film, and television work.We spent a great deal of time in this episode talking about the importance of play and the power of storytelling and how that works in the theater, but also how that impacts the hospitality world in powerful ways. There are more similarities than you might think.Storytelling isn't merely something Carlo does professionally. There is a very personal connection between story, identity, truth, performance, and survival in his life.We loved this conversation know you will too.

    114. Carlo D'Amore, Founder of Live In Theatre, Talks about the Importance of Play and the Power of Story
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On the Cutting Onions Podcast, restaurant executives Bobby Shaw and Myles Gift celebrate leaders and organizations that build strong people cultures that develop other leaders. Bobby and Myles interview leaders who have built amazing cultures in their organizations through developing great leaders who produce amazing results, the right way.

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  • Creator
    Bobby Shaw
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    122
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Copyright Bobby Shaw
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    The Cutting Onions Podcast