All in the Industry ®

Shari Bayer recaps her recent trips to South Beach Wine & Food Festival and Charleston Wine & Food Festival ! Hear her in-the field footage plus in studio commentary.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's time for magic this week on All in the Industry! Shari Bayer is joined by Josh Beckerman, a magician/comedian in New York City with a passion for great food and restaurants. He goes out nightly on many culinary adventures and tends to dine alone. When he sits at the bar, or a table alone, he ends up doing magic for the owners, chefs, managers, waiters, bartenders, busboys, etc. and build relationships with everyone. Tune in as he performs an impressive trick on Shari and dishes on what's happening in the NYC dining scene.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Shari Bayer celebrates her 100th episode of All in the Industry with hospitality and restaurant legend, Danny Meyer. Danny Meyer is the CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group, which includes Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, Blue Smoke, Jazz Standard, The Modern, Maialino, Untitled, North End Grill, Marta, Union Square Events, and Hospitality Quotient. He recounts his childhood and the events that led him to his career in the industry, the new Union Square Cafe location, the tipping conversation and more!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Get behind the camera with Kathryn Sheldon, Producer of NBC’s New York Live, on this week’s episode of All in the Industry. Host Shari Bayer talks to Kathryn about the ins and outs of television production and the secrets to making great news content.   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this week’s episode of All in the Industry, host Shari Bayer is joined in the studio by Jeff Ruiz, Tea Curator for Atera, a two star Michelin restaurant in Tribeca. Atera offers a tea pairing that’s specific to the course, matching six types of tea with the restaurant’s 16- to 18-course tasting menu. The tea pairing program started”on a hunch” in 2013, about a year after the restaurant first opened its doors. Since then, Ruiz has been given full autonomy to explore new potential pairings. “Going through a service when you have like five tea pairings or six tea pairings at the same time, you’re working really hard, but at the same time at the end of that service I’m like, man, this is a dream come true.” [24:40] – Jeff Ruiz  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this week’s episode of All in the Industry, Shari welcomes guest Brett Friedman, Managing Partner of Agency 21 Consulting. Brett is a third generation Miamian, and he works closely with the South Beach Food & Wine Festival each year, as well as the New York City Wine & Food Festival. They discuss corporate partnerships, business travel, and why Instagram makes the most sense as a social media platform. “Everybody wears multiple hats because you have to, that’s the job: growing a business, but most importantly maintaining a business.” [14:25] – Brett Friedman See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this episode of All in the Industry, host Shari Bayer speaks with Andrew Kaplan, Director of Special Projects at Rachael Ray. Andrew went through both culinary school and the hospitality program at Florida International University. He then worked in the hospitality industry in Miami and under Lee Schrager at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, which led to his current role with Rachael Ray and her Yum-O! Organization. Listen in to hear more about the many roles Andrew has played along his multi-faceted career path. “We wound up having some meetings, and the next thing I knew, I was moving to New York from Miami.” [16:30] – Andrew Kaplan  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on All in the Industry, Shari Bayer is talking with Bruce Bronster, Attorney, Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP. Bruce F. Bronster’s practice focuses on several key areas: hospitality and restaurants, commercial disputes, tax lien and mortgage foreclosures and general business advice. His numerous high-profile representations include corporations and individuals, such as: Tower Capital Management, Capital One Bank, One West Bank, Credit Suisse, First American Title, Chicago Title, IndyMac, JD Carlisle, Pat LaFrieda Wholesale Meats, GMC, New Valley Realty, Tiffany & Co., Bear Stearns, JP Morgan Chase, BlackRock, XSPAND, CGM Group, EMC Group, Mooring Tax Asset Group, Jay Leno, The Moinian Group and numerous high-profile celebrities, restaurants, and others.   “Real estate dovetails well with the hospitality industry.” [09:00] See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week on  **All in the Industry ** Shari Bayer opens with a tip about knowing it’s never too late to change things up. To maintain the topic of change, she chats with IT guy turned pizza master Paulie Gee. They discuss Paulie’s sudden change in career, and the success of his Greenpoint based pizza shop “Paulie Gee’s”; a gourmet wood oven pizzeria known for it’s unusual locally sourced ingredients. They also talk about social media’s importance in the food industry, and Paulie Gee’s dislike for flash photography. “I was working for someone else, and when you’re working for someone else, you’re working for someone else’s dreams.” [4:00] – Paulie Gee on All in the IndustrySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week’s guest on All in the Industry is Dana Koteen, Managing Partner of Restaurant Reason. Restaurant Reason is the new industry standard for staff training and communications. The powerful online tools we provide make it easy to train your staff so they can create exceptional guest experiences and increase sales. The system makes it easier to manage your training programs, so your managers spend less time in the office and more time on the floor. With an easily managed program, you can provide high-quality training and empower your staff to represent you and your concept the way you would. Mr. Dana A. Koteen, Managing Partner “I got my start in the restaurant business at sixteen years-old working as a busboy and host. After all this time you can bet I’ve been through a lot of training, whether as a trainee or a trainer. As the Service Director of  Maialino, I was responsible for training an ever-changing staff of 50 for a restaurant that is open for three meal periods every day of the year. While struggling to keep up-to-date information in the minds and mouths of my staff, I realized something: the restaurant industry has no standard for training our staff. Unlike our reservation and POS systems, we’ve never upgraded the paper training packet to a digital system that is easy to use for both the trainee and the trainers. At the time, I knew my friend Michael had a started a company that was doing something with training for restaurants, but didn’t know much about it. Fast forward one year later and we have Restaurant Reason. Our mission is simply to make it easy to train restaurant staff so they can create exceptional guest experiences and increase sales.”See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.