Join a rotating lineup of restaurant industry experts as they sit down for one-on-one chats with restaurateurs, restaurant managers, and restaurant marketers. These conversations dive into real stories, hard lessons, and challenges overcome while launching successful restaurants and growing commercial restaurant chains.
We also feature insights from corporate restaurant management experts who bring a broader view of scaling and leading at the enterprise level.
You'll hear everything from building smart restaurants management system strategies to setting up a system for restaurant management and creating better training for restaurant employees. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur or an industry veteran, you'll come away with ideas you can put to work in the real world.
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Join a rotating lineup of restaurant industry experts as they sit down for one-on-one chats with restaurateurs, restaurant managers, and restaurant marketers. These conversations dive into real stories, hard lessons, and challenges overcome while launching successful restaurants and growing commercial restaurant chains.
We also feature insights from corporate restaurant management experts who bring a broader view of scaling and leading at the enterprise level.
You'll hear everything from building smart restaurants management system strategies to setting up a system for restaurant management and creating better training for restaurant employees. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur or an industry veteran, you'll come away with ideas you can put to work in the real world.
Episode 9 : Meet the Restaurant Talk Hosts: Strange Orders and Real Stories
Restaurant Talk By Save Fry Oil
1 hour 51 seconds
2 weeks ago
Episode 9 : Meet the Restaurant Talk Hosts: Strange Orders and Real Stories
Welcome to a special intro episode where your three hosts finally meet! Kieron Bailey from the UK, Chrissy Symeonakis from Australia, and Susan Tung from Canada get together across three time zones to share the stories behind their love affair with hospitality.
This is the conversation you'd have over drinks after a long shift. The hosts talk about the weirdest things they've seen customers order, their go-to comfort foods (hello, McDonald's and dirty kebabs), and those pet peeves that every hospitality pro understands. They open up about how they got into the industry, often by accident, and share food memories that still bring them joy years later.
If you've ever wondered who's behind Restaurant Talk and why they're so passionate about sharing stories from the industry, this episode gives you a front-row seat to their world. It's funny, it's real, and it's a reminder of why hospitality is about so much more than just serving food.
Restaurant Talk is brought to you by Save Fry Oil with Frylow - because nobody wants to talk about fryer oil until they see their invoice.
Key Topics Discussed
Strange Customer Orders
The mysterious woman ordering poached chicken and boiled eggs every morning
A customer who cried over missing tripe
The guy who complained about the same dish for months
Comfort Food Confessions
Why McDonald's becomes essential after a brutal shift
The secret language that scores free kebabs at 4 AM
When melted cheese is the only answer
How They Really Got Into This
Rebelling against the family restaurant... then coming back
The work experience swap that changed a life
That moment when hospitality chose them
Why They Stay
The systems that buy back your freedom
Being there for people's best days (not their worst)
When a single taste takes you back decades
What They'd Tell Their Younger Selves
The numbers no one teaches you (but should)
Why cheap shoes will haunt you forever
Document the madness while you can
Notable Quotes
Restaurant Talk By Save Fry Oil
Join a rotating lineup of restaurant industry experts as they sit down for one-on-one chats with restaurateurs, restaurant managers, and restaurant marketers. These conversations dive into real stories, hard lessons, and challenges overcome while launching successful restaurants and growing commercial restaurant chains.
We also feature insights from corporate restaurant management experts who bring a broader view of scaling and leading at the enterprise level.
You'll hear everything from building smart restaurants management system strategies to setting up a system for restaurant management and creating better training for restaurant employees. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur or an industry veteran, you'll come away with ideas you can put to work in the real world.
