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Eater's Digest

How Small Restaurants Raise Money

Eater's Digest

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Food, Comedy, Arts, News Commentary, Improv

4.4902 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Maya Lovelace is using a combination of Kickstarter and sweetheart loans to fund her new restaurant, Yonder. Esther Choi has raised money for her restaurants in a few different ways with varying success. Special thanks to Gail Simmons for calling in to promote Wellness in the Schools. Go to their gala! Hosted by: Amanda Kludt and Daniel Geneen. Sign up for Amanda Kludt’s newsletter here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Eater Upsell part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

0:02.8

This is Amanda Clute, the editor and chief of Eater.

0:04.6

I'm joined as always by my co-host Daniel.

0:07.1

Hi Daniel.

0:08.0

STFU, you know what that stands for?

0:10.0

No.

0:10.8

Start the flipping Upsell.

0:12.4

All right, all right, let's get into it.

0:14.3

Today we are talking to two entrepreneurs

0:17.4

about the restaurants they own.

0:18.9

They both own multiple concepts

0:20.9

and how they raise money for them.

0:22.1

Each person in this episode

0:24.0

went about raising money kind of a non-traditional way.

0:27.0

First we're going to hear from

0:29.0

Maya Lovelace, who has a couple of projects in Portland and for her most recent project she is using

0:35.8

Kickstarter. Yep and then we are going to talk to Esther Choi she is the new host of

0:40.6

an eater show called Test Kitchen Gadget Show.

0:43.4

Test Kitchen Gadget Show.

0:45.1

Yep.

0:45.8

And she has three restaurants.

0:48.7

Three restaurants in New York.

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