Latest Independentrestaurants Podcast Episodes
121: Marketing FAQs with Malia Part 3
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - October 20, 2023 10:00 - 14 minutesThird in a three part series on Social Media Marketing with Malia at Millenial Marketing. Malia, the owner of Millenial Marketing, and Martha, host of Holy Guacamole, talk through the most Frequently Asked Questions Malia receives regarding social media. Chances are you have asked some of these ...
120: Prostart Explained by Tom Schuch
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - October 13, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutesContinuing our series on experts in our field, today we have on Tom Suchuch to discuss the NM high school culinary program, ProStart. This is a national program with state level programs. ProStart is part of a necessary conversaton about our current hiring challenges in the restaurant industry....
119: Marketing FAQs with Malia Part 2
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - October 06, 2023 16:00 - 19 minutesSecond in a three part series on Social Media Marketing with Malia at Millenial Marketing. Malia, the owner of Millenial Marketing, and Martha, host of Holy Guacamole, talk through the most Frequently Asked Questions Malia receives regarding social media. Chances are you have asked some of these...
118: Sura Korean BBQ and Tofu House
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - September 29, 2023 10:00 - 33 minutesClaire and Brandon, owners of Sura Korean BBQ and Tofu House on Long Beach are our guest today. They have a long and lusterous history with this place. Claire and Brandon took on the project of giving Korean BBQ a refreshed and contemporary feel. It included improving from within, adding a patio...
117: Marketing FAQs with Malia Part 1
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - September 22, 2023 10:00 - 11 minutesFirst in a three part series on Social Media Marketing with Malia at Millenial Marketing. Malia, the owner of Millenial Marketing, and Martha, host of Holy Guacamole, talk through the most Frequently Asked Questions Malia receives regarding social media. Chances are you have asked some of these ...
116: Cajou -- Plant Based Ice Cream Story
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - September 15, 2023 10:00 - 32 minutesThis episode is a story about one of the best things in life -- ice cream, and it's plant based for all the good reasons! Listen and learn how this co-founders couple Nicole and Dwight conjured their sons' milk allergy into the joy ice cream brings into any family. Co-founder, father and chef,...
115: Thriving with Brahm at the Inn at Shaker Mill Falls
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - September 08, 2023 10:00 - 52 minutesBrahm is the farmer at the regenerative farm at The Inn at Shaker Mill Farm. Listen to this episode as an expert on how regenerative farming, is much like speaking another language in it's ability to give you new perspective, and positive perspective on life. This episode is as much about the li...
114: Tyler Zielinski on Building a Better Bar
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - September 01, 2023 10:00 - 40 minutesWhat makes a bar work? How do you make the math work? And how do you keep it working for years to come? We interview UK based Tyler Zielinski to get his opinion. He writes for PUNCH, Food & Wine, London Evening Standard, Eater, Class Bar Mag, Condé Nast Traveler and more. And he is a Brand and...
113: Line Abandonment
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - August 25, 2023 10:00 - 19 minutesLine abandonment falls into an operational topic, which is Pillar 3, in the Six Pillars of a Successful Business. How does it happen? In the restaurant industry customers leave a line before completing their intended transaction, which in this case would be ordering their food and dining at the ...
112: Jenny & Martha Hour: The Bear, S1
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - August 18, 2023 10:00 - 1 hourFollowing the request from many listeners we felt a discussion on The Bear was worth a slight detour from our regular format. That's why we asked Jenny to come back and discuss The Bear, Season One with Martha. Starting off with a quote from the article by Carina Chocano from NY Times, called ...
111: Shaker Mill Farm making a difference
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - August 11, 2023 10:00 - 36 minutesClimate change is striking us hard this year. Finding a place deserving of an episode took time. This episode shares the story of one amazing place on Earth where they are working with nature in numerous way. Step into The Inn at Shaker Mill Falls. It is an 18 room inn and retreat center operate...
110: Events (Inner Circle Converations)
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - August 04, 2023 10:00 - 14 minutesThis episode starts a series whose time has come--Inner Circle Conversations. These are topics that I see trending or you, the audience is asking for me, the host, Martha Lucius, to share. Sharing how to run events and why. What's the purpose of having them, what's the power behind events, and ...
109: Statistics - mini econ convo
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - July 14, 2023 10:00 - 8 minutesDon't know how our industry is doing? Could be because the statistics are a little confusing. National Restaurant Association came out with a statistic that says restaurants are back to normal. Here we explore that statistic and the few other stats that are telling the story of what's going on i...
108: Hiring good food people
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - June 30, 2023 10:00 - 22 minutesThis is a short story on how you can build a successful hiring habit even now, in 2023! Whenever restaurants are hiring, they follow, or don't follow a protocol. In this episode you'll hear the steps you can take and why they may work for your business. From the job advertisement that describe...
107: Hidden Waters Regenerative Agriculture, Joe Shaffer explains
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - June 16, 2023 10:00 - 36 minutesJoe Shaffer from Hidden Water Farms shares where our food comes from, and knows how farmers steward the land and animals. He grew up raising cattle, and now has cattle, pigs, chickens and a vegetable plot at Hidden Waters with his partner Tom. Joe shares what the term "Regenerative Agriculture" ...
106: Sandwich with a financial lesson
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - June 09, 2023 10:00 - 9 minutesThis season has been filled with information about the Six Pillars of a successful business. This episode is about the interplay of Quality and Financial Stability. This Sandwich Episode uses a simple story to tell the financial lesson of changes in the restaurant industry. The recipe of bui...
105: Humor -- staff excuses
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - May 26, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutesJenny Gaitner is back. A light and lively conversation about the excuses staff provide when they don't want to come in to work. Jenny has been on the show previously, discussing staff pay and salaries. Jenny and me, Martha always have frank and lively conversation. This one includes a monkey pla...
104: Can’t Make This sh#t up—dreams
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - May 19, 2023 10:00 - 4 minutesThe last few months have been all about understanding the Six Pillars of a Successful Business. Hospitality is the 6th of Six Pillars. It's where we take all the planning of a restaurants daily plan and turn it into reality. We all need a little levity. This levity is an amuse-bouche for a s...
103: Hospitality, Erin Moran's opinion
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - May 05, 2023 10:00 - 31 minutesThe Sixth Pillar of Success is about culture and hospitality. We know our listeners appreciate hearing from an authority on hospitality and culture. Erin Moran is that voice. She is Director of Dr Grasmick's Leadership Institute at Towson University weighs in with her definition of hospitality a...
102: 6th Pillar: Hospitality
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - April 28, 2023 23:00 - 13 minutesHere we are, the last pillar in the Six Pillars of a Successful Business: HOSPITALITY. It’s subtitle is “what are the ways to attract guests to your place, in the first place… then, what are they ways to invite them back, over and over and over again!!! BUT WAIT…. but before we get there, I’m ...
101: We Take a Detour
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - April 14, 2023 10:00 - 15 minutesWe take a break from the Six Pillars to share how food, community and kindness come together. And they come together at restaurants, bars, cafes, and food businesses, partly because each of those businesses is an epicenter in the community. Here are a couple of stories about how food, communi...
100: 5th Pillar: Avenues to Growth
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - April 07, 2023 10:00 - 12 minutesDefining the Fifth Pillar of a Successful Business: the avenues and distribution to bring product to market. Avenues and distribution is where restaurant or CPG product find methods to sell their product. Many facets of the same jewel. The definition of the Fifth Pillar is more than the phras...
99: 5th Pillar: Talking about Avenues to Grow with Kathleen Overman
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - March 24, 2023 11:00 - 38 minutesWe dig into the fifth pillar of a successful business: avenues and distribution to bring product to market. Going deep with the Six Pillars of Success as a method for business owners to roadmap change and stability into their business. The Six Pillars are Brand Strategy, Financial Stability, Ope...
98: Elusive term "Quality" with Meaghan Carpenter HEX Ferments
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - March 17, 2023 10:00 - 45 minutesThe fourth pillar of a successful business is product & quality. Those words translate into a consistent and elusive practice of quality control within a business. Studying the Six Pillars of Success as a method for business owners to roadmap change and stability into their business. The Six Pi...
97: 4th Pillar: Product = Quality
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - March 10, 2023 11:00 - 5 minutesWe dig into the fourth pillar of a successful business: product & quality. Going deep with the Six Pillars of Success as a method for business owners to roadmap change and stability into their business. The Six Pillars are Brand Strategy, Financial Stability, Operations, Product Quality, Avenues...
96: Swiss Watch Analogy
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - March 03, 2023 11:00 - 8 minutesWe dig into the third pillar of a successful business: operating efficiently. Going deep with the Six Pillars of Success as a method for business owners to roadmap change and stability into their business. The Six Pillars are Brand Strategy, Financial Stability, Operations, Product Quality, Aven...
95: 3rd Pillar: Operations - Tools to Perform
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - February 24, 2023 11:00 - 14 minutesWe dig into the third pillar of a successful business: operating efficiently. Going deep with the Six Pillars of Success as a method for business owners to roadmap change and stability into their business. The Six Pillars are Brand Strategy, Financial Stability, Operations, Product Quality, Aven...
94: Financial Stability: The Planning Part
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - February 17, 2023 11:00 - 16 minutesGoing deep with the Six Pillars of Success as a method for business owners to roadmap change and stability into their business. The Six Pillars are Brand Strategy, Financial Stability, Operations, Product Quality, Avenues & Distribution, and Hospitality. The jargon of financial stability is br...
93: 2nd Pillar: Financial Stability with Sari Kimball
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - February 10, 2023 11:00 - 51 minutesKicking off the third year of Holy Guacamole we go deep with the Six Pillars of Success as a method for business owners to roadmap change into their business. The Six Pillars are Brand Strategy, Financial Stability, Operations, Product Quality, Avenues & Distribution, Hospitality In this episo...
Current Affairs: Living Wage
Restaurant Whisperer, Owners with a niche who love support and inspiration. - February 03, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutesA new type of episode starts today with diehard industry professional Jenny Gaitner. This episodes' focus is on the living wage. She's been working in restaurants and bars as an employee since her teens. This episode is an honest and open conversation from the perspective of two people who have ...
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