Kirsten Maitland

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864 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3 Jun

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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast · How This Addictive Cheese Brand Turned Startup Mistakes Into a $20M Empire | Entrepreneurship | How We Profit | E1 · 3 Jun 2026 podcast

The restaurant was extremely hard.

Well, one, we opened it three months before COVID hit.

Oh, no.

And, you know, when we opened the restaurant, we had no idea how it would do.

It was such a unique concept, a vegan wine and cheese shop, really nothing like it in the world.

So luckily, we started small.

It was only 1,100 square feet, which was a lifesaver during COVID because we didn't know.

And when we opened our doors, we had a line down the street.

So we're like, oh, we'll be okay.

But then, of course, COVID.

The challenge with the restaurant, and it actually set us up for success ultimately, is that the margins are so tight.

And then you layer in, you know, vegan concept, and that makes it even more challenging because you have a smaller demographic that's going to go to your restaurant.

So you have to watch them like a hawk.

You have to be careful with every single expense.

From the get-go, I set up tools to watch these things and monitor, and I'm so glad I did.

Because had I not done that, I don't think we would have survived the six years that we did.

Margins, very, very important.

I used a tool called Margin Edge.

And one of the reasons that tool worked so well was because if the prices went up on any of the ingredients, it would alert you.

So you could see any price changes.

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