
EP 61: Babak Bina - The Mindset That Built Boston’s Top Restaurant Group
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Babak Bina didn’t just survive the restaurant industry. He bent an entire city around his vision.
After landing in Boston as an immigrant, washing dishes to stay alive, he spent the next 30 years building concepts that defined the city’s dining scene.
Babak talks about the moments operators never admit publicly:
– The lowest point where he almost walked away
– Flooding an entire dining room and owning the fallout
– Reinventing concepts while everyone else plays it safe
– Investing in people instead of chasing shiny ideas
– The pandemic moments that could’ve erased everything…
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