Oct 7, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min · 14 segments
A great restaurant is not built on a perfect recipe, it’s built on repeatable decisions. Chef and serial entrepreneur Paul Hubbard joins us to tell the real story behind Deep Run Roadhouse and his…
Talk about that vision of it because I feel – that was always – you talk about the problems that you have to solve in the business.
Probably the biggest problem for me to solve over the years was me having this insane vision in my head but being able to communicate that to the people that were on my team.
Like, immediately I'm just – not connecting the dots and thinking, like, I'll spit something out.
They know exactly what I'm talking about.
Well, no, I never explained the vision to them, so those connections weren't happening.
But talk about, like, that style weekly session that you had So it's it's a good thing and also a difficult thing that like when you start to get some shine, but things haven't lined up like to the outside, everybody's looking at you like, oh, man, this guy's an uber success.
But still in the back of your head, you're still like, man, I'm just paying myself 50 bucks a day and like trying to make it by.
Talk about that feeling of like seeing where things are going.
But the state that you were in in that moment wasn't matching up.
You know, I'm built different in a way where people ask me all the time, you know, did you ever see yourself? Did you ever see the business do this? You know, I've always approached my business, I've just hyper-focused on all the little micro transactions, whether it be with a customer, with a vendor, with an employee, with a process, with a recipe, whatever it is.
I don't know what you call it, but I've just always obsessed all over the little microtransactions.
I never thought about the big macro picture of this is what I want to do one day.
I got an idea, but my goal is to have a successful business in any context or scale of measure.
I've
the more successful your business is, you know? And so that's a hard question to answer, but I totally get why you're asking it.
Yeah.
Now the small entrepreneurs have to fall in love with the small things because in my industry, particularly it's very, not to pat myself on the back, but I think I'm somewhat of a unicorn when it comes to being a creative, but also being a business minded individual.
Normally you have one or the other.
generally creatives are not good business owners.
Just because you know how to make great graphics or build a website doesn't mean you should be leading the company.
That's just a skill set that you have.
Talk about that vision of it because I feel – that was always – you talk about the problems that you have to solve in the business.
Probably the biggest problem for me to solve over the years was me having this insane vision in my head but being able to communicate that to the people that were on my team.
Like, immediately I'm just – not connecting the dots and thinking, like, I'll spit something out.
They know exactly what I'm talking about.
Well, no, I never explained the vision to them, so those connections weren't happening.
But talk about, like, that style weekly session that you had So it's it's a good thing and also a difficult thing that like when you start to get some shine, but things haven't lined up like to the outside, everybody's looking at you like, oh, man, this guy's an uber success.
But still in the back of your head, you're still like, man, I'm just paying myself 50 bucks a day and like trying to make it by.
Talk about that feeling of like seeing where things are going.
But the state that you were in in that moment wasn't matching up.
You know, I'm built different in a way where people ask me all the time, you know, did you ever see yourself? Did you ever see the business do this? You know, I've always approached my business, I've just hyper-focused on all the little micro transactions, whether it be with a customer, with a vendor, with an employee, with a process, with a recipe, whatever it is.
I don't know what you call it, but I've just always obsessed all over the little microtransactions.
I never thought about the big macro picture of this is what I want to do one day.
I got an idea, but my goal is to have a successful business in any context or scale of measure.
I've
the more successful your business is, you know? And so that's a hard question to answer, but I totally get why you're asking it.
Yeah.
Now the small entrepreneurs have to fall in love with the small things because in my industry, particularly it's very, not to pat myself on the back, but I think I'm somewhat of a unicorn when it comes to being a creative, but also being a business minded individual.
Normally you have one or the other.
generally creatives are not good business owners.
Just because you know how to make great graphics or build a website doesn't mean you should be leading the company.
That's just a skill set that you have.
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