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Brad Barmore on Why the Customer Isn’t Always First. And Why That’s the Secret to Great Hospitality
🎙️ From $120K and a Pizza Oven to Three Sonoma County Restaurants: Brad Barmore’s Story at Kin Restaurant Group
Brad Barmore, co-founder of Kin Restaurant Group, started with $120,000 scraped from friends, a personal loan, and two silent partners, signed a lease April 1st, and opened Kin Windsor by June 22nd of 2011. Fourteen years later, he runs three concepts across Sonoma County and owns two of the properties under them. In between: wildfires, evacuations, a global pandemic, a face plant with a fourth concept, barbecue competitions, a malfunctioning smoker on opening day, and a lesson…
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