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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Wolfgang Puck, Legendary Chef & Restaurateur on The Recipe For Being a Good Mentor

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Get things cooking with this clip from Season Two episode of Office Hours featuring legendary chef and restaurateur Wolfgang Puck dishing his insights on brand building and how he handled being fired from his first restaurant job. On this episode of Office Hours, Wolfgang Puck and host David Meltzer chat about how Puck’s tough childhood helped to fuel his passion for food, his favorite dishes to cook (and eat), as well as the recipe for being a successful mentor. — Office Hours features billionaires, millionaires, entrepreneurs, celebrities, athletes, and entertainers to talk about success, failure, and everything in between. Other guests from Season 2 include: Daymond John from Shark Tank, entrepreneur and best-selling author Ed Mylett, US Olympic beach volleyball legend Kerri Walsh Jennings, New York Times best-selling author, researcher, lecturer, and corporate consultant Dr Joe Dispenza, "The Iceman" Wim Hof, and Grant Cardone, CEO of Cardone Enterprises, Cardone Capital, international speaker, entrepreneur, and author of The 10X Rule. Stream Season 2 of Office Hours now on Apple TV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm excited to hear from our next guest, Wolfgang Puck,

0:04.0

owner and restaurant tour.

0:07.0

Welcome back to Office Hours, and we are honored

0:11.0

because we have the first celebrity chef of all time.

0:15.0

My favorite and extraordinary talent, both in the kitchen

0:19.0

and on the camera, welcome Wolfgang Puck to Office Hours.

0:24.0

Thank you, thank you.

0:25.0

I think we should call it the kitchen hour, probably.

0:29.0

That's your office, I'll rename the show for you, of course.

0:33.0

One of the things you are, though, is a branding and marketing genius.

0:37.0

And it's one thing to be an extraordinary chef of restaurant tour.

0:41.0

And those two, by the way, are two different skills to be a great chef

0:45.0

but run a business as well.

0:48.0

But beyond that, you really created the concept of being a celebrity as a chef.

0:54.0

And obviously, this is taken off, not only for your benefit

0:57.0

and 40 years in Beverly Hills at Spaggos,

1:00.0

which I'm old enough, I think, to be there for the grand opening.

1:03.0

But more importantly, with media, your brand outside of your own kitchen office

1:11.0

is much bigger worldwide than probably you ever imagined.

1:15.0

What do you think that secret was that created this celebrity chef

1:19.0

that was never seen before?

1:21.0

Well, I really think it's like baking a cake in a way.

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