110: Michael Chernow | Hunger For Success

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A restaurateur with 7 NYC restaurants and a passion for fitness, his restaurants have succeeded in large part due to Chernow’s keen sense of emotional intelligence. One of the unique ways he keeps his staff happy is the emphasis he places on fitness in the workplace and the program he started to cultivate this. The interview takes place in Seamore’s which specializes in locally caught species that are delectable but often overlooked. Dogfish, for example, is just as tasty as trendier fare. Chernow is working new projects with a voracious diligence Chernow can trace back to his childhood. As a kid he walked dogs and delivering food to transcend his family’s modest lifestyle.

Lessons
1. Don’t underestimate anyone. There’s no way of gauging how valuable a relationship will be down the line.
2. Don’t “want,” “need,” or “wish” …. “do.”
3. Cultivate a happy, cohesive team and the guests will be made happy as a matter of course.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're going to love Michael Churnell. I unfortunately cannot be there.
0:04.3	Tim Nye is covering for me. I'm in Vegas. We are working on some secret operation.
0:10.9	You're going to love this podcast.
0:12.1	Welcome back to spotting up the podcast.
0:15.0	We are here again in sunny Pittsfield, Vermont.
0:18.0	Sunny today, snowy yesterday.
0:20.0	This gentleman owns one of the best fish restaurants in New York City amongst many
0:24.4	restaurants that he owns an incredible businessman.
0:28.3	Chef philosophy. Great philosophy, great way of treating his staff. I think we've got a lot to learn from this
0:33.2	owned by Michael Cherno beautiful well let's go talk to him see what he's got to say
0:38.8	let's go swim in the sea let's go. Let's go. All right, we're here today with Michael Tournow in one of his restaurants here
0:50.3	in New York City, Seymour's in, and how many restaurants do you have here in New York City, Seymour's in and how many restaurants you have here in the city?
0:54.0	So this is my seventh restaurant.
0:56.0	And they're all active?
0:58.0	All active in New York.
1:00.0	We're building an eighth right now.
1:02.0	Holy moly, so we'll get into that, but you don't look like, you don't look old enough to have
1:06.8	seven restaurants running simultaneously.
1:10.3	I mean, I would think that would take some while to build up.
1:13.0	You know I've been working in the restaurant business since I'm a kid.
1:17.0	I have a work ethic like a maniac monster and when I turned 28 years old I took the leap of faith and I opened up my
1:27.1	first business with my business partner Daniel. It's called the Meatball Shop.
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