{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"FULL COMP: The Voice of the Restaurant Industry Revolution","title":"Chaos is a Ladder: Jon Strader, founder of Hatchet Hall & Little Coyote","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/0b7b2d6b\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1517,"description":"With an estimated 30-50% of all restaurants permanently closed, what does that mean for the future of the industry? What does that mean for those of us still in the game? Today we chat with Jon Strader who’s using his grit and tenacity to build his empire when land is cheap and competition is low.\nClick to sign up for our weekly newsletter.\nClick here to book time on my personal calendar.\nClick here to download our Restaurant Recovery Guide.\nWant to streamline your front-of-house operations and increase sales? Head over to http://restaurants.yelp.com/fullcomppodcast to claim your free page and learn more about these powerful tools for your business.\nSHOW NOTES\n\n The difficulties of working for yourself\n Keep up the momentum\n  You have a lot to learn\n  You make many mistakes\n  Success at Hatchet hall\n  Launching pad to take journeys to the next level\n  Pivoting at Hatchet Hall to a Bodega style service\n  Market boxes\n  Sold beer, wine, and liquor inventory\n  Merch\n  Family style pre-order meals\n  Bodega style is not sustainable for the fine-dining restaurant\n  Initially, customers want to support\n  There is a disconnect in the style of products\n  It’s necessary to completely reconceptualize during Covid\n  Fine dining is dead for the next 6 months\n  Covid is unpredictable\n  Contingency plan after contingency plan\n  Lack of leadership from the government at both local and federal levels\n  Potentially reopening as a casual dining experience\n  Guest seat themselves\n  Parking lot as a summer popup and picnic area\n  Reduced labor\n  Reduced inventory\n  No full service\n  The market doesn’t know what it wants until they see it\n  Adaptability and coming up with concepts on the fly\n  Everyone is in a fragile state right now\n  Everyone will be tougher afterward\n  Opening of Little Coyote\n  Opportunity at lockdown to buy a property on Long Beach for a good price\n  Bought the restaurant and turned it into a New York-style pizza place\n  Jack Leahy as the chef\n  Bootstrapped with...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/6OAanP6N7rKCCEP4OYgZT_i74QmCwgk2rH1cSWqhfvs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYzkz/MGQ5M2Y5MWZmM2E0/NGM3MzFmNzQ0OGZl/NDhhYi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}