Lessons From the World's Best Restaurant

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Noah Kagan Presents, I talk to Nick Kokonas from the restaurant Alinea. Named "Best Restaurant in the World" by Elite Traveler Magazine, Nick takes us behind-the-scenes of his success at Alinea with lessons you can learn.

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0:00.0	Have you ever eaten out of Olive Garden?
0:02.0	Yeah, it's actually not bad.
0:03.0	I haven't never, I don't think I've ever knew one.
0:05.0	Those fucking bread things.
0:08.0	Welcome to Noah Kagan.
0:20.0	In today's episode I talk with Nick Kaye who's one of the co-founder of Alinia.
0:24.7	If you don't know it, it's one of the top restaurants in the world and I've gotten to eat there
0:28.4	and it was literally one of the best experiences I've ever had.
0:31.6	So I'm very fortunate I was able to get to chat with them and learn a lot about it. So some of the things that we talk about and you guys are going to hear, these nuggets are amazing. He talks about how not to limit yourself. Nick talks about why he doesn't always listen to customer feedback.
0:44.8	Why they spend $140,000 on a table.
0:48.8	His experience with the Trump group and how it influences business.
0:52.2	How he builds shit that gets busy.
0:53.7	You just really got to build something great.
0:55.1	He talks about that.
0:56.3	Why he does whatever it takes to hire the best people.
0:59.4	I love that part.
1:01.0	Why do restaurants have tablecloths? There's that and so much more. I really look
1:05.2	forward to you enjoying it. There are some minor audio issues during the episode because I
1:08.8	was following Nick around the restaurant, but we did our best to make it as amazing for you
1:12.2	as possible. enjoy the show.
1:17.2	Do you ever worry about having too much good food? Sometimes I'm like when I've had so much good food I go and
1:20.8	have like normal food and I'm like I just can't really eat and have like normal food and I'm like well
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