Samuel Ortiz
Host, Service podcast
Samuel hosts Service, our weekly long-form interview podcast. Each episode is a single operator, vendor, or investor in conversation about the work — not the press release.
Before TableTransfers he produced a James Beard-finalist food podcast and ran the kitchen at his family's restaurant in Oaxaca for six years. He picks the questions a working operator would actually ask, and asks them.
Service has been downloaded by the kind of people who run the restaurants you've heard of.
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