Real Restaurant Radio

By Kostas Lazanas

We created real restaurant radio to inspire and educate up and coming chefs and entrepreneurs. We are here to give you the tools and knowledge for success.... more

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The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.

Real Restaurant Radio episodes:

March 04, 2019 Episode 13 | The 80/20 Principle
What is the Pareto principle? Simply put it is the law of 80/20. 80% of your problems come from 20% of your situations. You wear 20% of the clothes you own 80% of the time. How can we as restaurant owners and Entrepreneurs take advantage of this principle and apply it to our own lives.
Hey If, It’s your first time here my name is Kostas I am the owner of Opa! Greek Taverna and Real Restaurant Radio. I’m joined by my best friend and cohost Cary Hodson!
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28min
February 25, 2019 Episode 12 | Choosing the right restaurant concept
Cary and Kostas discuss the importance of choosing the right concept and service style to offer for your concept. Intrinsic is counter service while Opa! is full service. We hope you enjoyed listening as much as we enjoyed putting this together.
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34min
February 21, 2019 Episode 11 | How Restaurants Purchase Food
Intrinsic recently launched Lupulin Kloud IPA and Carry brought one over for us to sip on while we talk about food purveyors. Restaurant depot launched a delivery system using a 3rd party company to get food directly to us. We also chat about brunch and why pork is not that popular where we are. Overall just another amazing episode of Real Restaurant Radio!
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28min
February 17, 2019 Episode 10 | Aramark screwed me over!
Today we are celebrating Cary's sucessful 3 year anniversary! We talk about food vendors and other supporting companies that allow our restaurant to be successful. We dab in a few catering tips and talk about new online ordering platforms. We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoy talking. We would love to hear from our amazing audience.
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30min
January 31, 2019 Episode 9 | Location! Location! Location!
We talk about some upcoming events happening around town. More importantly we talk about location. Cary is located in the heart of down town garland and Kostas is located off a major road. When you decide to choose a location its very important to do some real research. eat at every restaurant in the area look at their price points if you can figure out their sales from a manager that is also helpful. Some times looks can be misleading.
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25min
December 04, 2018 Episode 8 | Meeting with the Health Department
In this episode we talk about what to expect from the health department. Every inspector is different find out our secret to success.
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29min
December 04, 2018 Episode 7 | Cold smoked beers and more...
Cary brought over the Garland Guzzler and Kostas brought his smoke gun. We talk about Special event planning. Employee reviews and more. Just a ton of fun and knowledge poured into this one. Enjoy!!
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31min
December 04, 2018 Episode 6 | How to capitalize in the Fall
Find out about Autumn Ales, Oktoberfest festivals and how you as a restaurant owner can hedge against the slowest quarter in the restaurant year.
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28min
December 04, 2018 Episode 5 | HR Crisis
People are the most complex part of running a successful business. If you can win the people game the rest mostly falls into place.
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33min
December 04, 2018 Episode 4 | Restaurant owners go on vacation?!
Kostas Lazanas just got back from Florida and Cary Hodson goes off to The Great Amercian Beer Festival. What do we do to ensure that our restaurants are running smoothly without the owner. Security cameras. Apps. Secret shoppers and more.
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32min

FAQs about Real Restaurant Radio:

How many episodes does Real Restaurant Radio have?

The podcast currently has 33 episodes available.