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Restaurant Misfits
Welcome to our podcast, “Restaurant Misfits”, where we’ll discuss all things related to restaurant marketing, management, and everything else in between growing a restaurant business. Whether you are a single-location owner, multi-location owner, or just getting into the industry, you’ll find tips and tricks to help you achieve massive results in your business.
We’re always looking for new interviews and features.
If you’re interested in joining us on the show, please email Ana on our team at ana@dineline.co!
Episodes
69 episodes
EP44 - Sean Brennan, Scaling Up a Pie Concept
Interview with Sean Brennan, the founder of the international multi-unit quick-serve pie and coffee concept “The Pie Hole” based in Los Angeles.He has plus or minus 20 years’ experience in hospitality and organizational developmen...
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S3:EP4 - Rev Ciancio, How Restaurants Should Leverage Digital
Quick highlights on Rev!Rev is a former New York City bar owner and knows exactly how hard it is to operate and brand a hospitality business.Hey is a Hospitality Marketing Consultant and Demand Gen and Tech Evangelist<...
S3:EP3 - Jeremy Jacobowitz, Food Influencer
In this episode, I interview Jeremy Jacobowitz, a food influencer based out of New York City.More on Jeremy:Jeremy Jacobowitz brings along his over 500k followers on his food adventures all over the wo...
S3:E2 - Ashish Tulsian, Restaurant-Tech Entrepreneur
Ashish is the CEO and CoFounder of POSist- He has scaled the company from a two-member team to 100+ employees, serving over 9,000+ leading restaurants in 32 countries.- Ashish is a rare combination of a Technocrat and Restaurateur...
S3:EP1 - Ethan Falk, Virtual Restaurant Group
Ethan Falk is the CEO of Virtual Restaurant Group.VRG offers delivery-only brands that can easily operate out of an existing restaurant. They maximize a restaurant's kitchen space and a restaurant's stream of revenue using no ...
S2:EP23 - Peter Demos, Fourth Generation Restauranteur: The Journey To Impact
If you are a restauranteur that wants a jump start on your restaurant business and learn how to instill values into your team, then you will get a ton of useful insight from this episode.
S2:EP22 - Abhinav Kapur, Turning Data into Dollars
In this episode I interview Abhinav Kapur, CEO & Founder of Bikky, an omni-channel CRM system for restaurants. Abhinav is dedicated to helping restaurants build deeper, more authent...
S2:EP21 - Brian Lewis, Acclaimed Chef & Restaurant Owner
During our interview, we discuss managing work-life balance in a constantly moving industry, hiring and training tips, and how he moved from his role as a chef to the ownership role. This is a really great episode for any chef...
S2:EP20 - Ken McGarrie, The Surprise Restaurant Manager
In the next 60 minutes, we dive into finding and hiring new staff, training staff, and uncovering problems in the restaurant industry and his approach to finding solutions. He's huge on having measurable marketing results and for any restaurant...
S2:EP19 - Field Failing, Good Chicken CEO
On a new Restaurant Misfits episode, I interview Field Failing, CEO and Founder of Field's Good Chicken, a 6 location chicken concept based in New York.Field's restaurant adventure began in 2007, after his professional cycling...
S2:EP18 - Adam Bossie, Building A Brand With A Story
In this episode, I interview Adam Bossie, CEO of the Afficionado Coffee Roasters. In the next 60 minutes, we dive into building a brand with a story, growing a team of excited employees, and his learnings as he explores more digital strategies ...
S2:EP17 - Renae Scott, Creative Marketing Powerhouse
In this episode, I interview Renae Scott, CMO of Ike's Love and Sandwiches and is a creative marketing powerhouse in the restaurant industry.She is the former CMO of Carl's Jr. among many other leading fast casual concepts. Renae has successfully ...
S2:EP16 - Misfit Media's Co-Founder & COO, Jace Kovacevich joined me on the show!
This is a really exciting episode as my business partner and COO, Jace Kovacevich, joined me on the show!As you know, we run an Agency to help restaurants acquire customers the smarter way through digital marketing.In this episode, we are going to...
S2:EP15 - Alex Canter, Restaurant Technology Genius
In this episode, I interview, Alex Canter, CEO of Ordermark.A platform that allows restaurants to use multiple third-party delivery apps but receive orders on one tablet or printer, as well as manage one universal menu that can synchronize with ev...
S2:EP14 - Samantha Slager & Camilla Opperman, Fueling The Future of Urban Food
In this episode on Restaurant Misfits, I interview Samantha Slager and Camilla Opperman the co-founders of Nimbus Kitchen.Nimbus Kitchen is a premium and flexible commerical kitchen solution offering state of the art licensed facilities, end to en...
S2:EP13 - Jamie Simpson, From Rockstar to Vegetable Mastermind
In this episode, I interview Jamie Simpson, the Executive Chef of the Culinary Vegetable Institute.Jamie has an interesting background- he was previously in a rock band before becoming a chef and compares an ingredient as a note in a chord. "A gre...
S2:EP12 - Melanie Landano, Founder of Mel's Butcher Box
In this episode, I interview Melanie Landano the founder of Mel's Butcher Box. Mel's Butcher Box is a food truck concept that was established in the midst of the pandemic.Melanie has been in the food, hospitality and entertainment space her entir...
S2:EP11 - Brick Oven Pizza, Doubling Sales in 2020
In this episode, I interview our clients, Adrian and Melissa from Brick Oven Pizza.Their restaurant business has been a client of ours for 2 years now and they are very special to Misfit Media.After doubling their in sales in 2020, Brick Oven Pizz...
S2:EP10 - David Burke, The Artful Innovator
In this episode, I interview David Burke. Chef, restauranteur, TV personality and business man who is fueled by passion, grit and a knack for artful innovation. He is known amongst his peers as a leading pioneer in cooking and is recognized intern...
S2:EP9 - Dan Rowe, Restaurant Franchisor Extraordinaire
In this episode, I interview Dan Rowe, the CEO of Fransmart and Co-managing partner of Kitchen Fund.Dan Rowe specializes in finding the next big thing and for over 20 years has discovered and grown many major brands including:Five Guys, QDOBA Mexi...
S2:EP8 - Laurent May, The Payments Nerd Genius
In this episode, I interview Laurent May, who's the CEO of Ready To Pay.A fully-integrated, contactless mobile self-ordering payment and loyalty technology solution.Laurent personally has over 20 years of expertise when it comes to project managem...
S2:EP7 - Elena Besser, You're Making Me Hungry
In this episode, I interview Elena Besser, a Brooklyn-based, Chicago-bred Chef and TV Host.She hosts live cooking classes on Food Network Kitchen, and can be seen on The Cooking Channel's "Best Thing I Ever At...
S2:EP6 - Stephen Yen, Executive Chef of Tao Downtown NYC
In this episode, I interview Stephen Yen, the executive chef of Tao Downtown in New York CityStephen has been with Tao for about a year now and has been a killer addition to their team.As for his experience, Stephen was on the ope...
S2:EP5 - Restauranting with A Modern Day Renaissance Man, Michael Chernow
In this episode, I interviewed Michael Chernow. He's a restauranteur, entrepreneur, TV host, Podcast host, Fitness personality, and family man, who is dedicated to inspiring the world through positivity, hospitality, and service.He...
S2:EP4 - Restauranting Through This Year With Chef JJ Johnson
In this episode, I interview Chef JJ Johnson.He's a restauranteur, Award-winning chef, Author, and Host on numerous media platforms.He opened his Restaurant, "FieldTrip" in July of 2019 and despite this crazy year has still manage...
