Danny Klein

[upbeat music] Hello, everyone, and welcome to the latest episode of QSR Uncut.

I'm your host, Danny Klein, the editorial director here at QSR.

So we're joined this week by Brandon Landry, CEO of Walk-On's, also founder of Walk-On's, and also founder of Small Sliders, which is the brand we're gonna talk about today.

Actually, a repeat guest, Brandon.

[upbeat music] Hello, everyone, and welcome to the latest episode of QSR Uncut.

I'm your host, Danny Klein, the editorial director here at QSR.

So we're joined this week by PJ Powell, founder of Tiki Bagel, based in St. Pete, Florida.

So first of all, PJ, thank you for reaching out.

There's some colleges that are close by.

Um, our model and hours tend to fit with, you know, a collegiate-level person, you know, that's at school, needs some freedom.

Um, so we started working with some of the local schools here, uh, hosting a table at some job fairs, uh, working closely with the chamber of commerce, and, uh, that really helped us pull together kind of a nice pool, uh, to pull from.

And, uh, we just had some great folks start, and then as we grew, the one thing that I, I figured out pretty quickly is, uh, you, you know, ah, founders have limitations [laughs] right? And y- you have to be, uh, self-aware enough to know you need help, right? And I think I did that quickly.

you can find us on the cover of QSR Magazine for the month of September, which is pretty cool.

So shout out to Danny Klein and the team there for a great story.

Does a nice job.

Lee's Famous Recipe dot com is our website.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the latest episode of QSR Uncut.

I'm your host, Danny Klein, the editorial director here at QSR.

All right, so a double whammy of things I enjoy on the podcast.

One, which is having two guests, which always makes it easier for me to speak less.

Yeah, do you guys remember, this was a thing when I first started, that we used to write a lot about this so-called tablet hell.

I haven't heard that phrase in so long, but I remember I went into an Outback to kind of see it one time, and, you know, the operator showed me, and I mean, it was like the most stressful thing I'd ever seen.

You know, because you had all these tablets attached to different, I guess at this time we were really talking like delivery, and they were just like, having either hostesses or servers or cooks or basically whoever they could find to just plug in one by one these orders into all these different tablets in the back and kind of trying to flow them over.

And man, it's amazing.