The Founder Who Sold His Hot Chicken Restaurant and Walked Into the Woods with Joe DeLoss
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Joe DeLoss is best known as the founder of Hot Chicken Takeover, one of Columbus’s most recognizable restaurant stories. But this conversation is not really about chicken.
Joe talks with Keri about the rise of Hot Chicken Takeover, the ego that came with it, the people impacted by his leadership, and the personal reckoning that followed. He is honest about marriage, fatherhood, masculinity, ambition, and the uncomfortable reality that success does not automatically make you whole.
Now, Joe lives in Mount Vernon and is building Baker Road, a hospitality and retreat concept…
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