The meez Network

Sharing stories and lessons that raise the bar across the hospitality industry.

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ABOUT
Our mission is to share stories and lessons from creators, storytellers, and food professionals that educate, unite, and generally help to raise the bar of excellence, community, collaboration, and innovation across our industry.

The meez Network began when two friends and hospitality professionals who share a love for the industry, creativity, and storytelling, joined forces.

As a first step, Andrew Friedman and Josh Sharkey have banded their respective podcasts into The meez Network. Andrew brought his well-respected and long running podcast "Andrew Talks to Chefs" to the meez Network alongside Josh's younger and fast-growing show, The meez
Podcast. In addition a few other industry friends joined our roster.  

The goal is to hear and share stories and lessons from creators, storytellers, and food professionals that educate, bring colleagues together, and generally help to raise the bar of excellence, community, collaboration, and innovation across our industry. The pair will bring more compelling content to the network across different mediums as we grow.

Latest network episodes and news
Latest network episodes and news
Chef Josh Sharkey, CEO and Founder of meez

The meez Podcast

meez Founder & CEO Josh Sharkey interviews world class entrepreneurs in the food space that are shifting the paradigm of how we innovate and operate in our industry.

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Andrew Talks to Chefs

Up close & personal with a world of chefs.
On his long-running chef interview podcast, author Andrew Friedman (Chefs, Drugs, and Rock & Roll and The Dish), one of the nation's top experts on chefs, cooks, and kitchen culture, converses with a diverse cross-section of the best and most popular chefs in the world.

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Restaurant Unstoppable

Restaurant Unstoppable Podcast's mission is to change the world by inspiring and empowering the restaurant Industry. Behind every great restaurant are great people. Restaurant Unstoppable is a platform for these leaders to stand and lift the industry with their stories, knowledge, values, and perspectives. Restaurant Unstoppable uses word of mouth and investigative journalism to seek out leading restaurateurs and the tools, services, and experts they used to build their businesses.  2 episodes weekly, 100% in-person, long-format,  intimate conversation about how leaders and owners grew their businesses.

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The Simmer

The Simmer explores and explains hot topics in restaurant technology and the future of hospitality. It's led by two industry veterans with a lot of opinions. Kristen Hawley has spent over a decade covering the beat for her newsletter Expedite and top titles including Fast Company, Business Insider, Bon Appetit, Eater, and Food & Wine. Brandon Barton is CEO of Bite, an industry-leading intelligent kiosk ordering software provider with nearly two decades of experience in restaurant tech. Each episode, the hosts interview some of the smartest people in hospitality to dissect what's happening now

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Expedite

Expedite is a newsletter about restaurant technology and the future of hospitality by journalist Kristen Hawley. Its two weekly editions cover what's new and what's next: How does tech affect the consumer restaurant experience? What's the latest terrible idea meant to "fix" restaurants? What powerful forces are shaping the future of the business? And how do we make sure the best parts of restaurants — food, hospitality, and human connection — stay intact?

Industry Only at the Cheese Store

For chefs, writers, and restaurant-industry insiders, the private tasting room at The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills is a place for celebration of food, drink, community, and of course, cheese, and a no-holds-barred arena for conversations on the state of the hospitality industry at large. Dominick DiBartolomeo (owner, The Cheese Store, Domenico’s Foods) & Andy Wang (writer, founder of Industry Only) welcome friends & colleagues to the store for conversations about running award-winning kitchens, developing world-famous dishes and how, no, they can’t help you get that last-minute reservation.

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The Pre-Shift

D.J. Costantino is a writer, marketer, and podcast host based in Atlanta, Georgia. D.J. is currently a member of the team at 7shifts, a restaurant software company, where he writes for the company blog and hosts the in-house Pre-Shift Podcast. The Pre-Shift features guests from all across the restaurant industry and has been streamed more than 60,000 times since 2021. D.J. is a journalist by trade and has written extensively about the restaurant industry for a decade.

About the show

Great teams make great restaurants. On The Pre-Shift, restaurant operators and industry experts dive into building great restaurant teams. We explore their stories, strategies, and valuable lessons on running restaurant teams. Hosted by D.J. Costantino. Presented by 7shifts.

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