How Alinea's Takeout Business Became a Massive Success Story

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Nick Kokonas is the co-founder and co-owner of Alinea restaurant in Chicago, he is also the founder and CEO of Tock, a reservations platform. At the start of the pandemic, Nick and the team at Alinea pivoted entirely to take-out and have sold a lot of food. Follow Nick on Twitter, Instagram and check out Tock. Hosts: Amanda Kludt (@kludt), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen (@danielgeneen), Producer, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom. Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here. Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: [email protected] About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the world through the lens of food, telling stories via audio, television, digital video, and publications in 24 cities across the US and UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Disney was a motion picture studio in a sea of Hollywood studios doing something nobody else was doing.
0:09.0	Disney's business is memory making. Disney's business is tradition.
0:15.0	But here's the thing about kingdoms.
0:17.0	They don't last forever.
0:18.0	To survive, Disney had to grow.
0:21.0	But has that tremendous growth eroded what made Disney, Disney.
0:24.3	And I don't know the world cares that this is a Disney movie anymore. I'm Joe
0:29.6	Italian. I'm hosting Land of the Giants, the Disney Telepa, from Bulcher on the Box Media Podcast Network.
0:35.0	Follow Land of the Giants wherever you listen to hear new episodes every Wednesday. Hey everyone and welcome to Eaters Digest a show about all things food and dining.
0:52.4	I'm Amanda Kluket editor and chief of Eder.
0:54.1	My name is Daniel Janine.
0:55.1	I'm a producer at Eder.
0:56.7	Amanda, this week we have an episode I'm very excited for.
0:59.6	We are talking to Nick Coconus.
1:02.1	He is the business guy, co-owner of Illinia.
1:07.0	The Linia Restaurant Group.
1:08.0	Aviary Next Royster, St Clair Supper Club, and he is actually the founder as well and owner of a company called
1:14.7	Talk which is a reservation platform that is doing very well right now.
1:20.0	You know, Nick is a no. kind of former finance guy comes from the world of derivatives trading and...
1:28.0	We really wanted to talk to him because we hear so many stories that are depressing when we're talking about restaurants and
1:35.4	everything that's so fucked about the industry right now and it's nice to
1:38.8	hear someone who's doing okay not not just doing okay, but thriving.
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