Neil Freiman

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20,967 appearances 117 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard yesterday

Neil Freiman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 115 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 22.

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Morning Brew Daily · FAA Wants AI to Fix Flight Chaos & TV Networks Battle Trump’s Media Ban · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

Cost of labor is super high. voice-verified

You have to pay insurance. voice-verified

You have to pay rent in New York City. voice-verified

The margins are very low when it comes to the food industry. voice-verified

So if you want to expand... voice-verified

Sometimes it's impossible not to take outside capital, which we know the young people have branded private equity, no matter what kind of outside capital it is. voice-verified

Those are the people with the money. voice-verified

And if you're Papa Bagels and you're seeing so much success in southern Connecticut and you want to expand in New York and all of these other places that now have Papa Bagels, that's just one example. voice-verified

You kind of have to go to get somebody to write a check to you, and then you will be branded as selling out to PE by Gen Z. But they're definitely in a pickle when it comes to expanding. voice-verified

You could grind it out with low margins for a lot of time. voice-verified

And you know what? voice-verified

A lot of restaurant chains have done that. voice-verified

But if you do want to plot your nationwide expansion, then you do have to kind of go to private equity and say, please, I want some of your money. voice-verified

However, almost half of the bars and restaurants that filed for bankruptcy just two years ago in 2024 were backed by private equity. voice-verified

I'm thinking things like California pizza kitchen. voice-verified

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love CPK and then red lobster in 2024. voice-verified

They were seen as PE being the death knell of them because you often saddle these companies with a lot of debt and maybe make them do an endless shrimp promotion, uh, to pad your bottom line or pad your supplier. voice-verified

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So it does come with a lot of strings attached when these companies go to private equity and say, I want you to help me expand. voice-verified

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