Could Joy Trade represent the future of the eatertainment category?

Take-Away with Sam Oches

Nation's Restaurant News

Business, Entrepreneurship

2.5 • 15 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this episode of Take-Away with Sam Oches, Sam talks with Robert Thompson, founder and CEO of Joy Trade, an eatertainment platform that has two concepts within its portfolio: Camp Pickle and Jaguar Bolera. Joy Trade is a platform that Robert believes can capitalize on white space in eatertainment through newly developed brands and acquisitions, and he joined the podcast to talk about how the company represents the next growth phase for eatertainment, how consumer trends are shaping the category’s future, and why food and beverage are so crucial to eatertainment’s success.

In this conversation, you’ll find out why:

The redefined nature of work is helping to power the latest eatertainment surge
Eatertainment today doesn’t need the activities to excel
A diversity of activities will help eatertainment not be a “one-trick pony”
The platform model will help eatertainment capitalize on white space
Platforms are as much about strong leadership as efficiencies of scale
Dying malls and big-box stores are key to eatertainment’s growth
Eatertainment is so much broader than you might think

Have feedback or ideas for Take-Away? Email Sam at [email protected].

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey there, welcome to Takeaway with Sam Ocas, a podcast from Nation's Restaurant News.
0:14.3	I am Sam Ocas, editor-in-chief here at NRN, and this is the show where I give you an all-access
0:19.4	pass to the restaurant industry's most
0:21.3	influential decision makers. This week, I'm talking with Robert Thompson. He is the founder
0:26.5	and CEO of Joy Trade, an eat-tertainment platform that currently has two concepts within its
0:32.4	portfolio, Camp Pickle and Jaguar Bolera. Now, if Robert's name sounds familiar,
0:38.0	that's because he's been kicking around the Eatertainment category
0:40.6	for going on three decades,
0:42.6	and he previously founded Punch Bull Social back in 2012.
0:46.6	Now Robert is on to potentially bigger things with Joy Trade,
0:50.0	a platform that he believes can capitalize on white space
0:53.3	in Eatert eat entertainment through developing
0:55.6	new concepts and through acquisitions.
0:58.5	Robert joined the podcast to talk about how Joy Trade represents the next growth phase for
1:03.8	entertainment, how consumer trends are shaping the category's future, and why food and
1:08.7	beverage are so crucial to eatertainment's success.. In this conversation you will learn more about why the
1:14.5	redefined nature of work is helping to power the latest eatertainment surge,
1:18.9	why platforms are as much about strong leadership as they are efficiencies of scale,
1:24.3	and why eat entertainment is so much broader than you might think.
1:28.3	Jumping now into my interview with Joy Trades, Robert Thompson.
1:32.3	Also, don't forget to stick around after the interview as I will share my seven takeaways from this discussion,
1:37.3	actionable insights that you can take with you on the go.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Nation's Restaurant News, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Nation's Restaurant News and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.