304 episodes

Coming to grips with over 100,000 restaurants shuttered...It's time to fix what's broken.

Created in partnership with Yelp for Restaurants, FULL COMP is a weekly show exploring the past & future of the hospitality industry. Provocative & actionable, the show aims to ask the tough questions, supplying listeners with the tools & resources needed to thrive post-pandemic.

The host, Michelin-rated restaurateur Josh Kopel, challenges conventional wisdom by hosting both hospitality professionals & thought leaders from outside of the industry, offering a new perspective on an old business.

FULL COMP: The Voice of the Restaurant Industry Revolution Josh Kopel

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    • 4.9 • 147 Ratings

Coming to grips with over 100,000 restaurants shuttered...It's time to fix what's broken.

Created in partnership with Yelp for Restaurants, FULL COMP is a weekly show exploring the past & future of the hospitality industry. Provocative & actionable, the show aims to ask the tough questions, supplying listeners with the tools & resources needed to thrive post-pandemic.

The host, Michelin-rated restaurateur Josh Kopel, challenges conventional wisdom by hosting both hospitality professionals & thought leaders from outside of the industry, offering a new perspective on an old business.

    Ricky Richardson on selling more than eggs

    Ricky Richardson on selling more than eggs

    What does restaurant college look like? Where would you go if you wanted to learn how to create a sustainable business and a global restaurant brand? If you said TGI Fridays, today’s guest, Ricky Richardson would agree with you. Over his decades long career at TGI Fridays, Ricky learned the tactics, tools, and strategies that this massive company used to take over the globe. He then turned around and used that same blueprint to help scale Eggs Up Grill into a regional giant. Today, he shares that blueprint with us. 

    For more information on Eggs Up Grill, visit https://eggsupgrill.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.

    We have a lot more content coming your way! Be sure to check out our other shows:

    Restaurant Marketing School

    Restaurant expert videos & webinars

    • 36 min
    Paul McEnany on your 2023 restaurant marketing strategy

    Paul McEnany on your 2023 restaurant marketing strategy

    Marketing is hard. It’s hard because it’s nondescript and it’s a moving target. Restaurant marketing looked different in 2020 than it does in 2023. But there are experts in the field and we’re chatting with one today. Meet Paul McEnany. Paul is the founder of Plein Air, a marketing agency that specializes in helping great restaurant brands grow. Today he unpacks the same gameplan he gives the big guys, so that we can use it too.

    For more information on Plein Air, visit https://www.itspleinair.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.

    We have a lot more content coming your way! Be sure to check out our other shows:

    Restaurant Marketing School

    Restaurant expert videos & webinars

    • 37 min
    Tyler Simmons turning waste into profit

    Tyler Simmons turning waste into profit

    Tyler Simmons wants to sell your trash. Our industry is famous for the amount of waste we create and Tyler is here to help. Today we’re talking about Too Good To Go, a company dedicated to eliminating food waste by elevating trash to treasure through innovative marketing and powerful tech tools. In an industry desperate for reasonable solutions to foundation problems, this just might be one. 

    For more information on Too Good to Go, visit https://toogoodtogo.com/en-us/.

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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.

    We have a lot more content coming your way! Be sure to check out our other shows:

    Restaurant Marketing School

    Restaurant expert videos & webinars

    • 30 min
    Steven Salm on making vegan food cool

    Steven Salm on making vegan food cool

    What comes to mind when you hear the words “vegan food.” For many of us, it’s burlap clothing and plates made of cardboard, but Steven Salm is out to change that. Steven founded Planta, a vegan restaurant that transcends every boundary placed on that genre of food. The branding, the buildout, and the culinary program all speak to what it is: one of the most compelling restaurant concepts in the last 20 years–even for carnivores. In our conversation today, we unpack the strategy he developed and executed to bring veganism into the mainstream on a national level.

    For more information on Planta, visit https://www.plantarestaurants.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.

    We have a lot more content coming your way! Be sure to check out our other shows:

    Restaurant Marketing School

    Restaurant expert videos & webinars

    • 37 min
    Cyrus Batchan on becoming a better restaurateur

    Cyrus Batchan on becoming a better restaurateur

    Before Cyrus Batchan became a bar owner and a Michelin-rated restaurateur, he was a lawyer and that’s what drew me to this conversation. How many nights have you laid awake wondering if tomorrow was the day you were going to get sued? We’ve all consulted with lawyers in the past but I wanted to see how a lawyer-turned-restaurateur would go about setting himself up for success and limiting his liability. Today we chat with Cyrus about the things to do and the things we should avoid in an effort to become a better restaurateur.

    For more on his latest project, visit https://www.camphor.la/.

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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.

    We have a lot more content coming your way! Be sure to check out our other shows:

    Restaurant Marketing School

    Restaurant expert videos & webinars

    • 35 min
    Jack McGarry on becoming the best and the aftermath of excellence

    Jack McGarry on becoming the best and the aftermath of excellence

    Jack McGarry has achieved the accolades most of us dream about. He’s been awarded the best bartender in the world and his NY bar, The Dead Rabbit, was awarded the distinction of Best Bar in the World, a few years after that. But that’s not the end of Jack’s story. Since hitting the top, Jack has redefined excellence through the lens of bar ownership and has spent the last several years working to become the best owner he can be. Today, we discuss what that looks like in theory and how it manifests itself in practical application.

    For more information on The Dead Rabbit, visit https://thedeadrabbit.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.

    We have a lot more content coming your way! Be sure to check out our other shows:

    Restaurant Marketing School

    Restaurant expert videos & webinars

    • 38 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
147 Ratings

147 Ratings

ASobering ,

Entertaining, insightful, and actionable! 🔥

Whether you’re well established as a restauranteur or just getting started carving out a profitable niche that’s ready to grow, this is a must-listen podcast for you! Josh does an incredible job leading conversations that cover a huge breadth of topics related to the ins and outs of building a thriving business you can be proud of with leaders who’ve actually experienced success themselves. Highly recommend listening and subscribing!

Cosmicnic6 ,

Today’s episode needs fixed!!

Hey Josh, listen to your podcast daily! Today’s most recent show needs edited badly. The clips run over each other so everyone is talking at the same time and then long silent pauses! Other than that, this podcast is great!!
Love it. Great guest, very pertinent info.

chicknmax ,

Josh!!

Josh you are just awesome! Thanks so much for a fun interview! Keep the faith! Stay safe! Max

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