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 …
Restaurant Industry
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.
Podcast – Ari Weinzweig visits the OrderUp Podcast
Ari Weinzweig fell into the restaurant industry in the early 80’s because he didn’t want to move home after college and wasn’t particularly fond of driving a cab. His business started out with a deli and has now grown to a community of 15 businesses under the Zingerman’s brand including a mail order service, creamery, …
Podcast – Interview with Adam Frager, Restaurateur/Entrepreneur
In this episode of, OrderUp – The Restaurant Ops Podcast, Erik sits down with Adam Frager a St. Louis restaurateur and entrepreneur. Adam is one of the founders/owners of Blood & Sand and Death In The Afternoon, both amazing restaurants here in St. Louis. He is also a founder of Brigade Society POS that was born out …
Podcast – Interview John Lewis Denver Food Group
Check out our 2nd interview podcast where Tommy sits down with John Lewis, Owner at Denver Food Group. John has spent the last 15 years working in the Food and Beverage Industry, both CPG and Foodservice, in several different capacities, including Brand Management, Research and Development, Innovation, Culinary, and Purchasing. Most recently he worked for Wendy’s …
What is Pokemon Go and Can I Make Money Off It
Ron Ruggless posted a great article in NRN this week about how you can pay money to purchase 30-minute Lure Models and install them by a PokeStop location, which could be close to your restaurants, this will entice Pokemon Go players to come to your area. If you are interested in learning how to purchase and run …
Reducing Food Costs and Running Safer Restaurants with Checklists
Back in February we did a webinar with Ryan Gromfin, The Restaurant Boss, entitled Reducing Food Costs and Running Safer Restaurants. This is a straight training webinar on how to use restaurant checklists to run better operations and increase profits. Ryan is a cool dude and we kept it light with real world stories and …
My Non-Scientific Prediction that Chipotle’s Sales are Still Down
The title says it all in this blog post, this prediction, some could say a safe one, is based on nothing but my experience last week.  I live in Denver and happened to be grabbing lunch on Evans Ave over by my alma mater the University of Denver.  There on Evans Ave is a shrine to …