Welcome to our chat with Tizzy Beck, maître d’/manager at the Waverly Inn in the West Village. Tizzy is one of those people you meet and say, where have you been all my life? She’s a personality powerhouse, a native New Yorker and a born host. She's been featured in the New York Times for helping to kick off a New York style burger trend in Milan. Clearly she’s quite a badass.

Listen in as we talk about how moving to Milan to work in fashion led her to becoming a restaurateur because she wanted to create the kind of American restaurant she was missing and knew would be embraced. Prior to opening Tizzy’s Bar & Grill, Tizzy had never worked in a restaurant, and she believes that thinking like a guest (as opposed to an employee) has made her a certain kind of owner.

We also discuss what it’s like to work in a legendary restaurant where photography is not allowed, how our Maître d’ Spidey Sense helps us when a celebrity we don’t know arrives, a great meal she and her partner Mark Ladner had at Fasano, and how she wants to make sure we all just “keep it classy”.