Wing Lam

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801 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 10 Jul

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Coffeez with Joe Shalaby · Wahoo's Founder on AI, Failure, and 38 Years of Grind | Coffeez Ep. 307 · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

Fire away.

Let's see.

Let's start at the top.

Go ahead.

You start or I'll start.

Whatever you want to do.

I would say that, uh,

having been in the restaurant my entire life before opening my own, was the amount of work outside of making food, right?

So payroll, insurance, advertising, all the other functions besides making food that you don't think about, that consumes a huge, so for every hour of restaurant operation, you probably got about a half hour worth of paperwork, I call it, right?

So that's one thing.

So somewhere in your group, you need to have an accountant type, an HR type, and, you know, like basically an insurance, you know, like a lawyer kind of, you know, just to make sure that you're not going to get sued.

Right.

So you got to have.

The human business part of the business in line, which most restaurant guys never think about.

And that, you know, and that can make or break you literally really quickly because if you're not managing your cash flow and following all the rules, taxes, payroll, all that other, you know, the functions, right?

It's a big thing.

The first thing that I would think about, because I already know the rest of the paperwork, right?

Because unlike most restaurant chefs, I actually have a finance degree from college.

So I'm a bean counter, right?

So all my decisions, believe it or not, as crazy as they may sound,

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