
What's Cooking? is the podcast for hospitality operators scaling smart. Hosted by Conor Sheridan – CEO and co-founder of Nory, and a former operator who built and ran multi-site restaurant brands himself – each episode goes behind the scenes of fast-growing restaurant groups to explore the operational challenges that actually matter - like disconnected systems, staffing chaos, and margin pressure.... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 33 | Founded | a year ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | FoodBusiness NewsNewsArts | |||

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Smart questions, strong production and loads of relevant content current hospitality affairs. Great listen on the commute to work!
Fresh, smart, and genuinely insightful. Perfect mix of hospitality brains + real talk. Excited to see where it goes.
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Hospitality operators and executives tune in for pragmatic, on-the-ground insights about scaling restaurant brands. Episodes frequently cover franchise models, international expansion, operational discipline, culture, and the evolving role of technology—from AI-assisted operations to unified guest-facing tech stacks. Listeners can expect real-world tactics on driving margins, improving guest experience, and managing large franchise networks without losing human touch. The show often features practitioners who've led transformations at mid- to large-scale brands, offering actionable takeaways for growth, cost control, and system integration that are likely to appeal to operators, private-equity-backed groups, and hospitality executives explo... more
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