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

Chef Jamie Lynch still cooks. It was his skill in the kitchen that afforded him the opportunity to open his first restaurant. But that’s not how he scaled to five restaurants across two states. At some point we no longer work in a restaurant, we work in the restaurant business. In our conversation today, we chart his transition from esteemed chef to an acclaimed restaurateur.

For more information on the chef and his projects, visit https://www.chefjamielynch.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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For over a decade, I ran my restaurants the way I was taught to run other people's restaurants. I led my teams the way others had led me and I never questioned it. But what if you never got that education?

Andrew Dana owns more than half a dozen successful restaurants and he began his journey as a restaurateur with absolutely no operational experience. He just did what he thought was right and followed his gut instincts. Today we go through how an industry outsider is challenging the way we look at our restaurants and our industry.

For more information on Call Your Mother, visit https://www.callyourmotherdeli.com.

We all hope to be successful, but how many of us plan to be successful? Susan Sarich of SusieCakes took the time to plan every aspect of her restaurant. The research and development that went into her business plan resulted in the success she had after opening.

Having weathered two economic disasters and with dozens of locations under her belt, her plan seems bulletproof and, in today's episode, we walk through that plan step by step.

For more on SusieCakes Bakery, visit susiecakes.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

Ken Grossman is a craft brewing pioneer. In the late 1970's, he, along with about half a dozen other brewers, started the first craft breweries in the US. Over 40 years later, the other guys are no longer in business and Ken's company is worth over one billion dollars. Today, we discuss what it took to survive in those early days and the critical decisions he made that paved the way for him to become the king of craft brewing.

For more information on Sierra Nevada, visit https://sierranevada.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

Marketing is this big, intimidating thing for most of us. For many of us, marketing starts and stops with social media. For many more of us, we aspire to have the time needed to even get that far. That’s why I thought it would be incredibly valuable to chat with Kim Freer. Kim Freer is the Chief Marketing Officer of Wetzel’s Pretzels, an old brand innovating in very new ways. Today we discuss what marketing looks like in practical application–outside of social media–and how it can have a transformative impact on our restaurants.

For more information on Wetzel’s Pretzels, visit https://www.wetzels.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

Winning in a major market requires a very different approach than opening a restaurant in a secondary or tertiary market. That’s why I was so excited to chat with Michael Tipps. Michael and his company Invictus Hospitality do many different things, but the one thing they’re most known for is taking successful concepts from major markets and scaling them across the country. Perfecting that process has revealed universal truths to Michael and his team about what a formula for restaurant success look like and in this episode he runs us through that formula tip to tail.

That’s Michael Tipps. For more information on Invictus Hospitality, visit  https://www.invictushospitality.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