Paul Mencel

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2,431 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 10 Aug

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The Handcrafted Podcast: The Business of making things · How to Be Better Than Everyone Else · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

So there's been a few things.

I'm going to reference a few different books and a few different ideas of what I've been sort of thinking about.

Will Garda, who did Unreasonable Hospitality, I've done a few podcasts on that, has always looked at sort of like outside the box things.

How do you make your business better?

How do you make – for him, it was how does he make his restaurant better?

How does he make it so that his restaurant is the best?

So one of the things that he did was didn't focus on the actual thing, right?

So it's not like –

I mean to me the benchmark – like the bare minimum to get in.

So if you're doing a restaurant, the bare minimum to get in is to have an amazing food, right?

You can only make the food so incredibly good, right?

If you're comparing up against other Michelin stars and for those of you guys who don't know, Will Garda has a few Michelin star restaurants and kind of talks about Eleven Madison Park specifically in the book.

So he's talking about how to make a better –

restaurant or restaurant experience how to grow this thing how to get it off the ground and he was very smart and he talks about this in the book so i do recommend unreasonable hospitality so he talks about how it's about looking at the things that nobody else is sort of looking at

So one of the things that he did was he took his entire restaurant staff to other Michelin star restaurants, other things out there.

And he didn't ask them, hey, what are the things that stood out to you?

What are the things that were amazing to you?

He said, what were the trouble spots?

What were the things that you didn't think were super great?

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