Apr 30, 2020
Mike Thelin, co-founder of Feast Portland, joins Chris on the podcast as we near the return to our regularly scheduled interviews. Mike talks about the inability to produce the same Feast festival Portlanders and the international food industry have come to know and love for 2020. Mike also discusses some of the...
Apr 23, 2020
Nick Zukin chats with Chris about a
tumultuous year for him as a restaurateur in Portland. Nick
shares the heartbreak of losing $400,000 with the closing of his
Mexican pizza concept, Zapapizza, after having been open for just
months. If that wasn't enough, less than a month later he was
forced to react to the...
Apr 16, 2020
Nate Snell comes on our podcast to talk
about how the pandemic offered Pip's Original Doughnuts the
opportunity to sprout a new business he and his wife Jamie had been
thinking about for years, which is to bottle their coveted Chai as
a concentrate and offer it for sale to their customers and
eventually wholesale to...
Apr 14, 2020
Renee Gorham joins us for our ongoing
COVID-19-driven Right at the Moment series to discuss the evolution
of her restaurant group, Toro Bravo Inc, through this
pandemic. Renee tells us how their first order of business
was to make sure everyone was fed, including those in need, and
their valued employees, and how that...
Apr 8, 2020
Michael Madigan, owner of Bowery Bagels and KitchenCru, joins us for a discussion in our Right at the Moment series. Michael talks about prospects for recovery from the business downturn and what he's doing to assure Bowery Bagels' success and survival. Michael and his wife Lynn have been key players in the Portland...