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RESTAURANT READY: THE BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY Restaurant Ready is your backstage pass to the inner workings of the hospitality industry’s brightest stars. This podcast promises authentic discussions with the most influential chefs, restaurateurs, and food media experts. Award-winning chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author Matt Jennings, along with the MAJC team, helm this weekly podcast. In each episode, industry veterans sit down for candid conversations revealing the honest stories behind their achievements, exploring the strategies, philosophies, and lessons learned along the way that shaped their path to success. Learn from the guests’ unique formula for creating consistent positive results in their business and personal lives. Restaurant Ready delivers unparalleled value for restaurant owners, chefs, and managers looking to elevate their careers and businesses. Listen in for a unique, no-holds-barred exploration of what it takes to thrive in the competitive world of hospitality. With each episode, we will discuss the state of the industry, the challenges we face and how to approach them, and ideas from the experts on how to best prepare yourself for success. You'll walk away with new ideas, and inspiration, as well as a greater sense of community and support as you drive your own success story.
Unknown Host hosts Restaurant Ready, a business show with 62 episodes published.
Kim Alter is a San Francisco-based chef and restaurateur, and the owner of Nightbird and Linden Room. Since opening Nightbird in Hayes Valley in 2016, she has built a refined, highly personal tasting menu restaurant arou
Sarah King is the Chief People Officer at Darden Restaurants and an advisory board member at MAJC✨. Over the course of a decades-long career across restaurants, hotels, and resorts, she has focused on one central questio
James Avery is a chef, restaurateur, consultant, and founder of Nicely Done Hospitality Group and The Modern Brigade. After more than two decades in high-performance kitchens, opening and operating his own restaurants, a
Alon Shaya is a James Beard Award-winning chef and restaurateur based in New Orleans, where he and his wife Emily lead Pomegranate Hospitality. After realizing that awards, acclaim, and full dining rooms could not compen
John McDonald is the founder and CEO of Mercer Street Hospitality and one of downtown New York’s most seasoned restaurant operators. Over three decades, he has helped shape the city’s dining culture through concepts span
Maneet Chauhan is an award-winning chef, restaurateur, author, television personality, and founding partner of Morph Hospitality Group in Nashville and Orlando. A longtime judge on Food Network’s Chopped and a two-time T
Matt Jozwiak is the founder of Rethink Food, a chef-led nonprofit building a more sustainable and equitable food system by paying restaurants to cook for their communities. After training in some of the world’s most dema
Stephen Sawitz is the fourth-generation leader and CEO of Joe’s Stone Crab, the iconic Miami Beach restaurant founded in 1913. Raised in the kitchen from the age of eight, he has spent a lifetime inside one of the most o
Demetri Tsolakis is a Boston-based restaurateur behind a growing portfolio of Greek concepts including Krasi, Kaia, Bar Vlaha, and Greco. Raised in his family’s Greek American restaurant, he briefly left the industry for
Aaron Bludorn is a Houston-based chef and restaurateur behind Bludorn, Navy Blue, Bar Bludorn, and Perseid at Hotel Saint Augustine. After training under chefs Douglas Keane and Daniel Boulud and leading Café Boulud in M
Paul Donahue is the co-owner of two Atlanta institutions: The Colonnade, an iconic Southern restaurant approaching its 100th anniversary in 2027, and Lingering Shade Social Club, a modern neighborhood bar built around co
Evan Hennessey is the chef and owner of Stages at One Washington and The Living Room in Dover, New Hampshire, and the founder of Finding Thyme, a culinary travel venture that blends food, place, and community. Since open
Rasika Venkatesa is the chef and founder of Mythily, a New York–based pop-up and residency concept that serves as her modern love letter to South Indian cuisine. Trained in some of the most demanding kitchens in the U.S.
Nick Schorsch is the co-founder and CEO of Heritage Restaurant Group, known for taking a disciplined, systems-first approach to growth, leadership, and long-term sustainability. Rather than chasing trends or rapid expans
Krista Cole is the sole owner of Sur Lie in Portland, Maine, which she built from the ground up in 2014, and Gather in Yarmouth, which she acquired in 2022. A two-time James Beard Award semifinalist, Cole brings a perspe
Heather Morrison and Austin Carson are the co-owners of Restaurant Olivia in Denver, a fine-dining restaurant known as much for how it treats people as for what’s on the plate. With decades of combined experience, they’v
Henry Rich is the managing partner of the Oberon Group, a hospitality group based in Brooklyn and the Catskills that includes Rucola, June, Anaïs, and Rhodora, a carbon-neutral zero-waste natural wine bar, among other pr
Mateo Kehler is the co-founder and head cheesemaker of Jasper Hill Farm in Vermont, a pioneering social enterprise dedicated to rural economic development through world-class artisan cheese. Built alongside his brother A
Tina and David Schuttenberg are the husband-and-wife owners behind Kwei Fei and Beautiful South in Charleston, part of Always Awkward Hospitality. After a series of failed restaurant jobs and relocations, they built a pu
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