Helping Restaurant Owners & Hospitality Brands Win With Digital Storytelling!
If you run a restaurant, bar, or hospitality brand and want to stand out online, this channel is for you.
What We Do:
We teach you how to turn your everyday moments into content that grows your business but without expensive gear or big marketing teams.
What You’ll Get Here:
• Behind-the-scenes of Cali BBQ’s growth journey
• Interviews with top digital entrepreneurs, media personalities & restaurant leaders
• Proven strategies for podcasting, social media, brand storytelling
Why Listen to Us?
We’ve taken a single-location BBQ restaurant and turned it into a global media brand. Our work has been featured with Toast (IPO), Shaquille O’Neal, national news, and industry leaders.
Hosted by:
Shawn P. Walchef: Restaurateur, Digital Creator, and host of the Digital Hospitality podcast.
Subscribe now so you can grow your restaurant business, build your brand, and create content that sells!
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Rising Tides regular and favourite guest on several of our shows, Troy Hooper, is on Digital Hospitality with us this week! He and Shawn discuss the future of leadership in the restaurant industry and many other topics!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvKml...
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Watch and enjoy this conversation with John Zinno, co-founder of DeliverThat. We talk about catering delivery, restaurant profitability, and why restaurants need to treat delivery as more than just an expense!
https://youtu.be/odpzplteZ8k
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Check out this conversation with Will Stewart, founder of Rightwork. We talk all things restaurant technology and AI at the National Restaurant Show 2026!
https://youtu.be/dKYP4994dYo
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Here are a few valuable lessons from my conversation with Kristen Corral, Co-Founder of Tacotarian 🌮
✅ Don't rely solely on social media to grow your business
✅ Build an email list and own your audience
✅ Create two-way communication with your customers
✅ Make guests feel heard through feedback and engagement
✅ Build a community, not just a following
Kristen has helped grow Tacotarian from a single location into a multi-unit brand by focusing on authentic storytelling, community, and customer connection.
If you're a restaurant owner, entrepreneur, or brand builder, this episode is packed with practical insights you can apply immediately.
🎙️ Check out the full episode of Restaurant Influencers with @ShawnPWalchef on @entrepreneur to hear Kristen's story and strategy
Restaurant Influencers is Presented by @Toasttab in partnership with @PepsiCo Pepsico #RestaurantInfluencers #KristenCorral #Tacotarian
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Shawn was on the Owner's Profit Playbook recently to talk about the importance of telling your story as a business in the modern creator economy!
Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsJoK...
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We are at National Restaurant Show 2026!
If you are attending come say hi at the F3 booth: 5870
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Shawn will be at the Pizza Expo 2026 this week!
Who should we interview?
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We will be at the Restaurant Franchising & Innovation Summit (March 16-18th in Coronado CA) Join Us!
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Cali BBQ Media visits Radio Row as Superbowl Week heats up
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Join us tomorrow on livestream with author and speaker Christian J Fischer!
He will be leading a discussion on the decisions leaders delay that cost the most.
Wed 4th Feb @ 1pm EST/ 10am PST
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