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#129 Paula Agganis: 5 Minutes of Confidence Started This Restaurant (opens the original)
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Chef Paula Agganis runs Paula's at Courtland Club in Providence, Rhode Island: a Greek and Eastern Mediterranean residency inside a landmark cocktail bar, and she does it with no culinary school, three staff, two induction burners, and a spreadsheet she inherited from another chef. This episode is a working blueprint for the restaurant career nobody maps for you: constraint-driven menu development, local farm sourcing that actually pencils out, brand identity built with real artists instead of A
#128 Calliope Draper: How Do You Reach Nationals Without Ever Bartending? (opens the original)
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Most people entering the bar industry think the sequence is fixed: get hired, survive two years of bad habits, learn technique from whoever happens to be on shift, and then maybe compete. Callie Draper ran it backwards and it worked better. Callie learned bartending as a guest from a world champion, entered Diageo World Class with zero shifts behind her, and made national finals before she'd ever been on payroll. This episode covers competition strategy, cocktail construction under constraint, m
#127 Alberto Antonini: A World of Wine in One Life (opens the original)
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Alberto Antonini is a Tuscan winemaker and one of the most in-demand consultants in the world, with a résumé running from Frescobaldi, Col d'Orcia, and Antinori through client work on several continents. In 1995 he co-founded Altos Las Hormigas in Mendoza and made Malbec the whole thesis when every serious producer in the region was convinced great wine required French grapes and small French barrels, what he calls the Bordeaux colonization. He was right, and he'll tell you honestly how much of
#126 Brian Crossan: Why Does Being a Restaurant Manager Still Suck? (opens the original)
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Hiring effective and competent restaurant managers is tough...you screen for interview skill instead of work ethic. And you are asking people to trade their marriage, their holidays, and their shot at a family for a title that pays less than a good Friday section. Brian Crossan is the Director of Operations for Table 301 Hospitality in Greenville, South Carolina, a 500-employee group built around Soby's New South Cuisine, and the sole owner of Camp Modern American Eatery. He started as a server
#125 Steve Schneider: What Does It Take to Run the Best Bar in North America? (opens the original)
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Steve Schneider, Marine veteran, 19-year Employees Only alum, star of Hey Bartender, partner at Sip & Guzzle with Shingo Gokan, and now holder of the number one spot on North America's 50 Best Bars, is our guest today. He didn't chase fame or accolades; he showed up, took at-bats nobody else wanted, and stayed when the work got hard. This episode covers craft cocktail history from the flair era through molecular mixology into today, the real economics of bar partnerships and passive income, how
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