Roger Berkowitz on Fish, Food, and Legal Sea Foods

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🗓️ 3 August 2015

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Seafood is highly perishable and supply is often uncertain. Roger Berkowitz, CEO of Legal Sea Foods talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges of running 34 seafood restaurants up and down the east coast. Berkowitz draws on his 22 year tenure as CEO and discusses how his business works day-to-day and the question of sustainability.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:11.0	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find links
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0:23.2	back to 2006.
0:25.4	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:27.9	We'd love to hear from you.
0:32.3	Today is July 27th, 2015, and my guest is Roger Berkowitz, President and CEO of Legal
0:39.3	Seafoods, a group of 34 restaurants and other businesses on the East Coast Roger.
0:44.8	Welcome to Econ Talk.
0:45.8	Good.
0:46.8	Thank you.
0:47.8	It's a pleasure to be here, Russ.
0:48.8	Now you started working in your family's seafood market as a ten-year-old boy.
0:54.8	What happened?
0:55.8	How did you get to work?
0:57.8	You know, this is when parents can be really smartly and touch you to come to work because
1:05.8	it's fun and you can be with your parents.
1:08.5	So essentially that's what happened.
1:10.6	Growing up, it was fun to come to work on Saturdays or school vacations, that type of thing.
1:18.5	I get up on a milk crate behind the counter and I would learn to weigh up fish on a scale.
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