CNLP 464 | Simon MacRae and Darcy MacDonell on Launching Two Successful In-Person Businesses in a Pandemic, and Bringing Top Level Dining to a Small Market That Usually Doesn't Support It

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

Carey Nieuwhof

Management, Business

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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COVID was brutal on restaurateurs, and many didn't make it. Enter Simon MacRae and Darcy MacDonnell, who launched not one but two successful restaurants during lock down. Not only did the Common Stove and Picnic thrive, but they launched them in a small town famous for not being able to sustain fine food ventures. They explain how they not only kept afloat, but grew, and attracted a top level staff in the service sector in the midst of The Great Resignation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast, a podcast all about leadership, change, and
0:09.0	personal growth. The goal, to help you lead like never before, in your church or in your business.
0:15.7	And now your host, Carrie Newhoff. Well, hey everybody, and welcome to episode number 464. The podcast, it's
0:24.8	Carrie here, and I hope our time together today helps you thrive in life and leadership. Hey, one of my
0:29.1	favorite things to do is to learn from all kinds of different inputs and sources. And this one's
0:35.1	really personal this episode. I've gotten to know a couple of entrepreneurs slash restaurant tours in my community.
0:41.3	Arrilla, Ontario, for those of you who know where that is, and 99% of you will have no idea.
0:45.6	It's a little town of 30,000 people.
0:48.0	It's the closest city I live to.
0:50.0	But anyway, and I've gotten to know these restaurateurs.
0:53.2	And I think they have such a fascinating story. I wanted to bring it to you. So you are going to meet Simon McCrae and Darcy McDonnell. And they've been at this for a little while. Simon's pretty young. He's just really his first venture. And then Darcine's owned a couple of restaurants along the way in Toronto and in other places. So you're going to get to
1:12.0	meet them. We're going to chat. We did this at my house and I had the very intimidating job of
1:18.2	cooking them dinner, which we talk about. I'll let you know how that went in a minute. So I think
1:22.6	you're really going to enjoy this. And man, there are so many lessons when they open to restaurants
1:27.2	in a lockdown. Like,
1:28.4	how often does that happen? And they're successful and profitable. And they did it in a town
1:33.4	that actually doesn't support high-end dining, like the kind of restaurants that they brought.
1:39.3	So it's pretty fascinating. I think you're really going to enjoy this story. I'm excited about it.
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