Ben Leventhal (Founder & CEO, Blackbird)
In this episode of The Slow Hunch, I spoke with Ben Leventhal, the founder and CEO of Blackbird. Ben has spent the past two decades reimagining the restaurant industry, having previously co-founded Eater and Resy.
The throughline that connects his efforts is a strong belief that restaurants are universally loved but fundamentally broken businesses—and that there must be a better way to run what is a trillion dollar industry in the United States alone.
We talked about what’s gone wrong with the restaurant business model, why most restaurants struggle to turn a profit despite enormous consumer…
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