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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See our latest episode of Digital Hospitality. 7shifts CEO Jordan Boesch explains why better restaurant training, employee engagement, and smarter systems are key to building stronger teams and better guest experiences.
https://youtu.be/i9b9Yt92M90
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Check out our latest episode of Digital Hospitality: Tom Holt explains how Urbane Cafe grew from one fresh focaccia sandwich concept into a 50-location fast-casual brand built on scratch-made food, better systems, and patient growth. https://youtu.be/AjHVgONNqoQ
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See our latest episode of Digital Hospitality: In this episode, Chris Lybeer, Chairman of the Board at Onosys, explains why mid-market restaurant chains need modern first-party ordering systems to handle growth, complexity, and digital transformation. https://youtu.be/WG0uB_5m-_8
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See our latest episode of Digital Hospitality: In this episode, Eric “Smokey” Bautista shares how music, resilience, authenticity, and staying true to the food helped build a restaurant brand with real heart. https://youtu.be/Fg-EU4oOKX0?si=2iTWv...
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See our latest episode of Digital Hospitality: Jeff Kopple, owner of Sicilian Pizza & Pasta in Louisville, shares how great food, loyal customers, smart vendor partnerships, and better digital ordering helped his business keep growing through every restaurant industry shift. https://youtu.be/FTVARp5wyHc?si=EOkX9...
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85 million people in the U.S. have a dietary preference, and 33 million have a food allergen, so menu transparency is no longer optional for restaurants.
In this episode, Lucy Logan, Co-Founder & President of EveryBite, explains how smarter menu data can help restaurants build trust, improve personalization, and turn allergen compliance into a better guest experience.
https://youtu.be/_qRLcFzxHx0?si=qprUn...
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Check out the latest episode of Digital Hospitality. Discover how Soundtrack CEO Ola Sars is helping restaurants use music, AI, and data to create better guest experiences and even increase sales.
https://youtu.be/hxxptneHQdY?si=9uicT...
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Check out the latest episode of Digital Hospitality. Chris Ives, CEO of Bubbakoo’s Burritos, joins us to talk about franchise growth, digital hospitality, restaurant culture, and how the brand is scaling from 140 locations toward 300
https://youtu.be/mb1MXLJCUQU
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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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