Episode 288: Wolfgang Puck - From Chef to $100 Million Entrepreneur

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🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Wolfgang Johannes Puck is an American chef, restaurateur, and actor. Born in Austria, Puck moved to the United States at the age of 24. In 1973, Puck moved to Los Angeles, opening his first restaurant, Spago, in 1982.

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0:00.0	30 seconds.
0:01.0	One time for the underdock.
0:04.0	Ignition sequence star.
0:07.0	Let me see you put them up.
0:09.0	Reach the sky, touch the stars up above because it's one time for the underdow
0:15.0	one time for the underdow.
0:17.0	I'm Patrick Bedevi host of entertainment.
0:19.0	Today I sit down with Wolfgang Puck.
0:21.0	Yes, the one and only Wolfgang Puck that went from being a chef to an entrepreneur
0:25.4	to build on a hundred million dollar empire to running one of the most popular restaurants
0:29.6	in all of the world, Spago, out of Beverly Beverly Hills and the things we covered today
0:34.4	is it's interesting when he was coming up how he almost took his life and all of
0:38.1	a sudden took a complete different angle and went from no one knowing who Wolfgang
0:41.9	Puck is to all of a sudden everybody around the world
0:44.4	knowing that name Wolfgang Puck.
0:46.0	It's very rare when you find somebody in the restaurant world as a chef, you know, there's a lot of chefs
0:51.2	out of the world very creative, but it's tough for them to make that transition from being a chef who do very well in the kitchen to go and open up a restaurant that lasts for 36 years for as long as his hats and then become an entrepreneur and become
1:05.9	on the top by wealthiest chefs around the world, one and only Wolfgang Puck.
1:09.8	Sir, thank you for your time.
1:11.0	Thank you for having me.
1:12.4	Indeed a pleasure.
1:14.0	Well, yes, I don't know.
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