A Deeper Dive

Jonathan Maze

restaurantbusiness@winsightmedia.com

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Booking Overview

A Deeper Dive is a restaurant-industry deep dive that helps operators tackle real growth and performance issues with practical insights. It’s a strong booking target for restaurant executives and industry researchers because episodes focus on strategy and operational challenges shaping the sector.

Metrics

Episodes: 413

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 1.8k subscribers

Instagram: 4.4k followers

Contact Information

restaurantbusiness@winsightmedia.com

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Host

Jonathan Maze - Host of A Deeper Dive (Restaurant Business), deep-diving on pressing restaurant challenges and opportunities. Covers topics including delivery, discounting, marketing, and menu strategy with restau...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Restaurant operators/executives (founders, CEOs, executive leadership) and industry measurement/analytics leaders (research heads at data/traffic firms), ideally with direct relevance to growth, consumer behavior, and operational strategy.
Required Achievements:  
Leading multi-unit restaurant chains, Driving expansion or new product/platform launches, Publishing or directing analytical research used to track restaurant traffic/consumer demand

Recent Guest Discussions

Steele Smiley - Crisp & Green’s Growth Strategy, What Constitutes Healthy Demand, Competition In The Protein World, Supply Chain, And Future Plans Including Sandwiches

RJ Hottovy - Restaurant Traffic Trends, Impact Of Gas Prices, Drivers Of Weak Traffic, And How Companies Can Break Out Of It

Nick Scarpino - Giordano’s Growth Strategy And Unit Expansion, New Tavern-style Thinner-crust Pizza, And Broader Pizza-sector Challenges

Recent Topics

Restaurant, Operations, Marketing, Menu, Personal Growth

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
A Deeper Dive
:

The story of a growing, Midwestern salad chain

June 24, 2026

Can a salad chain thrive in the ever-changing world of healthy eating?Steele Smiley is betting on it. The founder and executive chairman of the Minneapolis-based salad chain Crisp & Green joins the Restaurant Business podcast to talk about his brand’s strategies. Crisp & Green has 52 locations and dozens more under development in the U.S. Smiley talks about the brand’s founding, and how he never envisioned becoming a restaurant operator. Smiley started the chain after a career in the ...

How restaurants are faring this spring

June 17, 2026

Why are restaurants having another tough year?This week’s episode of the Restaurant Business podcast A Deeper Dive features RJ Hottovy, the head of analytical research for the traffic tracking firm Placer.ai.This is the last in a series of episodes from the National Restaurant Association Show in May. Hottovy is a regular guest on the podcast and we talk with him about the current state of restaurant traffic, something that Placer.ai tracks extensively. We talk with him about the impact gas p...

Giordano's is getting ready to grow again

June 10, 2026

Can Giordano’s grow faster with more thin-crust pizzas?This week’s episode of the Restaurant Business podcast A Deeper Dive features Nick Scarpino, the CEO of the Chicago-based pizza chain Giordano’s.This is one of a series of episodes we recorded at the National Restaurant Association Show in May. Scarpino talks about the chain’s growth, and why the company is opening more units these days. He also discusses the strategy behind that growth.He also discusses the company’s new tavern-style piz...

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