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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

    • Business
    • 4.9 • 140 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.

    Weesie Newton on how to truly step away from day to day operations

    Weesie Newton on how to truly step away from day to day operations

    Today you’re going to hear about how a first time restaurateur not only built a profitable business but also set it up so that she could move across the country for three years and have it operate seamlessly without her. It wasn’t all roses but Weesie Newton sits down today to share the path that led her to the restaurant industry, her departure from day to day operations, and what ultimately led her back to the business she loved. 



    For more information on Weesie and her restaurant, visit https://fleetlanding.net/.



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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 content:

    Yelp for Restaurants Podcasts

    Restaurant expert videos & webinars

    • 37 min
    Brandon Boudet on mastering second generation concepts

    Brandon Boudet on mastering second generation concepts

    It’s hard enough to open our own restaurant concepts. It takes a creative mind to reimagine someone else’s concept and breathe new life into a tired old restaurant. Today we sit down with Chef and restaurateur Brandon Boudet to discuss how on more than one occasion, he’s taken ownership of a money pit and transformed it into a cash cow. As it turns out, an old dog can learn a few new tricks. 



    For more information on the chef and his restaurants, visit https://www.littledoms.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 content:

    Yelp for Restaurants Podcasts

    Restaurant expert videos & webinars

    • 35 min
    Follow These Steps to Scale Your Restaurant

    Follow These Steps to Scale Your Restaurant

    Sign up for this next week's 5-Day Restaurant Profitability Challenge by visiting ⁠www.joshkopel.com⁠



    Here's a Preview of the Amazing Stuff You’ll Learn:

    Day 1: You’ll learn the 3 Keys to Profitability that scale your restaurant’s cash flow without increasing your expenses so that you can stop worrying about money. Day 2: You’ll learn how to Master Margins, giving you the tools you need to scale your per customer average spend and increase perceived value for your restaurant.Day 3: You’ll learn how to Scale Income by optimizing your floor plan and turn times, serving more guests better and faster.Day 4: You’ll learn how to Diversify Revenue by scaling Event and Catering business through our proven outbound strategy. Day 5: You’ll learn how to Scale Awareness and Customer Frequency creating a flood of new and repeat customers without spending one dollar on ads.

    Space is limited.

    Go to ⁠www.joshkopel.com⁠ to register today. 

    • 3 min
    Kassady Wiggins & Sammy Monsour on scoring a lucrative cookbook deal

    Kassady Wiggins & Sammy Monsour on scoring a lucrative cookbook deal

    The band is back together. Today, we sit down with my old partners in crime from my restaurant group, Executive Chef Sammy Monsour and Beverage Director Kassady Wiggins. We’re discussing how to score a lucrative cookbook deal, what we would do differently if we could start all over again, and how to create a company culture so amazing, employees flock back years after we exited.

    Check out their cookbook, Salt and Shore: Recipes from the Coastal South wherever books are sold.



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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 content:

    Yelp for Restaurants Podcasts

    Restaurant expert videos & webinars

    • 35 min
    Sujan Sarkar on elevating cultural cuisine for the masses

    Sujan Sarkar on elevating cultural cuisine for the masses

    What does it take to win a Michelin star in the midst of a global pandemic? It’s easy to look at Chef Sujan Sakar’s success today and see a charmed life but this is a man who has paid his dues. Sujan spent decades traveling the globe to hone his craft. Today we sit down to discuss how a broad education led him right back to the cuisine that he grew up with and his mission to innovate that cuisine for the world. 



    For more information on the chef and his restaurants, visit http://www.sujans.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 content:

    Yelp for Restaurants Podcasts

    Restaurant expert videos & webinars

    • 33 min
    Anthony Mangieri on the path from restaurants to the grocery aisle

    Anthony Mangieri on the path from restaurants to the grocery aisle

    It feels like it would be glamorous to be a pioneer of a new cuisine in a new city but rarely does that translate into success. It’s hard enough to sell something someone has heard of before. Today we sit down with the exception to the rule. Chef Anthony Mangieri is almost singularly responsible for the introduction of neapolitan pizza to New York. He’s built a reputation for himself while building awareness for his greatest passion. We discuss, what it took to inform the market, the evolution from chef to restaurateur, and the path from that restaurant to the local grocer’s freezer section. 



    For more information on the chef and his concepts, visit https://unapizza.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 content:

    Yelp for Restaurants Podcasts

    Restaurant expert videos & webinars

    • 40 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
140 Ratings

140 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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