Ep. 76 – Restaurant And Retail With Matthew Baizer

Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Careers, Business, Management, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 224 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

If you’re in a volume-based enterprise, such as in a restaurant or retail, you’ve got to be ready for challenges and business when they come. In this episode,Â Flix BrewhouseÂ COOÂ Matthew Baizer, gives a little sneak peek on the different sides of running this business. Bringing his experience from being Director of Franchise Operations of Real Mex […]

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the C.O. Alliance and brought to
0:11.8	its founder Cameron Herald.
0:14.0	In the second-in-command podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, strategies,
0:20.0	and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief. And now here's your host
0:24.8	Cameron Harold. Matthew is the chief operating officer of Flix Entertainment and Brewhouse.
0:34.0	Matt came to Flix from a real mex restaurants where he was the director of
0:38.0	Frances Operations for Chevy's 24 store Frances Operation, as well as a region of five company-owned stores including its Times Square flagship location
0:47.4	His franchise and company stores represented a combined 78 million of system-wide sales
0:52.2	Prior he was regional director of operations for
0:54.9	Chevys with a city responsibility for San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, and Phoenix.
0:59.9	From 2000 to 2004 Matthew was the vice president of Operation for Zow Noodle Bar, a unique pan-Asian restaurant
1:07.0	concept that grew to 10 locations in four markets plus two licensed outlets on the West Coast.
1:12.5	In 2004, he became the president and CEO of Zow,
1:15.3	where he remained until 2010.
1:17.6	Matthew is a food service lifer,
1:19.9	and he is a 1990 graduate from Cornell University of Hospitality with concentrations in food and
1:26.1	beverage management.
1:27.1	Matthew, welcome to the Second Command Podcast.
1:30.6	Thank you for having me, I appreciate it.
1:32.4	So I didn't notice when I was prepping that you were a Cornell grad and I would have been partying at Cornell when you were there.
1:39.0	Really?
1:40.0	Yeah, I went to school in Vancouver, Canada, or sorry in Ottawa, Ontario, and Ottawa was about
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