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Martha Pollay

Martha Pollay

Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Mandara Hospitality Group, an Asheville-based restaurant group known for Posana, a certified gluten-free fine dining restaurant.

Jul 13, 2026

52:09
Was the, was, was the conversation of buying a restaurant what happened first? Like, like, how did we get to the point where you were even looking at property?
52:17
I think it was me.
52:19
I, I think that I could tell Peter wasn't really happy with the real estate thing, and like, I have memories of Peter when, like, of Peter in his socks in the kitchen cooking and literally, like, sliding around, like he's having so much fun.
52:35
Like, it, it's, it's just kind of funny, a picture.
52:38
Like, that's where his mojo was, and it was so obvious not in real estate.
52:43
And so I think it was me...
52:47
And see, the reason I brought up, like, how kind of burnt out he had become at Spago wasn't because Spago wasn't a great place to work or a great learning emp- a, a learning environment.

20 MINS LATER

73:09
Yeah.

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