In this week’s interview, we speak with Ian Garlic, a digital marketing guru. We discuss his experience in restaurants, his dad set up the mass distribution of Gyro’s from Greece back in the 70’s and used to own a restaurant that had a live dolphin show in Wisconsin. We also speak extensively about social media …
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Scott Turner Discusses Temp Monitoring And FSMA
This weeks interview is with Scott Turner, founder of Waresys. Waresys is a food safety and FSMA training company. Scott discusses how FSMA affects restaurants, the Food Code 2017 release, temp monitoring solutions how they work and how much they cost. It is a great interview that talks about things that are affecting our industry …
George Tinsley II- Running Airport Restaurants is Hard Work
This episode we speak with George Tinsley II, G2. George is VP and Managing Director of Tinsley Family Concessions, they run restaurants in the Miami, Tampa, and Louisville airports. George’s dad was one of the original KFC franchisees and made his deal directly with Colonel himself. George discusses the challenges of running airport restaurants and …
Wayne Humphrey COO of Larkburger – Ready for Growth
This week we interview Wayne Humphrey, COO of Larkburger. Wayne speaks about how Larkburger is ready to start growing out of the state of Colorado. Wayne also speaks about food consistency across the industry and why it is so hit or miss. If you live in Colorado or Overland Park KS shortly, please check out …
A Passion for Restaurant Operations
Islam Ahmed shares his experience in the restaurant industry and his passion for running great operations. He discusses his time with Chipotle and what he believes has contributed to their recent struggles. Tommy gets a little bit of a different perspective from a less seasoned restaurant industry evangelist. Check out the podcast below:
From a Tent to the Shark Tank
In this episode of the OrderUp Show Erik interviews Co-founder and COO of Tom and Chee, Corey Ward. Corey shares his story about how he first got into the restaurant industry as a kid. His first job out of college coloring comic books. To draining his bank account and spending his rent money to setup a …
Tom Moxcey’s Out of the Box Thinking
This week’s interview is with Tom Moxcey, former CEO of Rock Bottom, Old Chicago’s and Charlie Browns. Tom talks about his amazing career starting in Boulder, CO in 1970 through today where he is a restaurant gun for hire that will come in and fix broken restaurants by actually managing them, not just consulting and …
Here is what Don Fox CEO of Firehouse Subs is Working On
In this episode, Tommy Y interviews Don Fox CEO of Firehouse Subs. Firehouse has 1016 locations around the world. Don talks about his career path, what they are working on at Firehouse and the government mandated wage increases around the country. In the interview, Don mentioned Firehouse’s charitable foundation, the Firehouse Subs Public Safety …
Audio Blog – Interview with Doug Davis, COO BEC Group
On this episode of OrderUp – The Restaurant Ops Show Tommy interviews Doug Davis, COO and Co-Founder of the BEC Group. Doug shares his journey in the restaurant industry from starting out at McDonald’s as a kid and meeting the Zaxby’s owners while waiting tables to where he is now with the BEC Group. …
Audio Blog – Interview with Chef David Buchanan
Please enjoy this interview with Chef David Buchanan. Chef David is a working Chef at the Blackfish restaurant in northern Washington. He also runs www.chef-resources.com and the moderates the chef resources group on Linkedin.