HeyJaredForktales
A weekly podcast that feeds food and beverage brands with insights, ideas, trends, and anecdotes discussed with restaurant, hospitality, and beverage industry leaders.
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Amit Pandhi – Food industry veteran and expert in building, fixing and scaling brands (opens the original)
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Some of the hardest brands to grow are the ones consumers already think they know. Amit Pandhi has spent his career taking on that challenge, building, fixing and scaling food businesses across categories. Now President and CEO of Westminster Cracker Company, Amit brings experience as a founder, operator and turnaround leader to a heritage brand with roots dating back to 1828. In this episode of Forktales, Amit shares why he believes the right people are the key to transforming a business, how l
Paul Hemingway – CPG marketing leader and food innovation strategist (opens the original)
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The grocery store may still be where the purchase happens, but the decision increasingly starts somewhere else. Paul Hemingway, Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Litehouse Foods, brings 25 years of CPG experience to marketing and innovation for the employee-owned company behind the nation’s leading refrigerated salad dressing brand. In this episode of Forktales, Paul discusses how social media and AI are changing food discovery, the impact of GLP-1s on food trends and how economi
Jim Herr – Third-generation snack industry leader and champion of flavor innovation (opens the original)
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For nearly 80 years, Herr’s has remained a family-owned snack company by staying rooted in its values while continuing to evolve. Jim Herr, Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and R&D, represents the third generation of the Herr family and oversees the consumer-facing side of the business, helping guide everything from product innovation to marketing and growth. In this episode of Forktales, Jim discusses the opportunities and challenges of leading a multigenerational family business, buil
Amir Yazdi – Restaurant investor, operator and growth strategist (opens the original)
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Great restaurants don't automatically become great businesses. Scaling takes the right systems, people and strategy. Amir Yazdi, founder and managing partner of Bastian Capital, has spent more than 20 years building, operating and investing in restaurant brands, giving him a unique perspective on what separates concepts that grow from those that stall. In this episode of Forktales, Amir shares what makes a restaurant concept investable, the biggest mistakes operators make when scaling, how risin
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