Digital Hospitality

Digital Hospitality


Latest Episodes

Rising Tides Live: Stepping Outside Of Your Comfort Zone
November 18, 2025

In this session of Rising Tides Live, hosted byShawn Walchef,, the conversation focused on stepping out of your comfort zone and why growth only happens when you do. From live reports at RFDC in Las Vegas to community members sharing their own real-worl

Real Operators. Real Experience. A New Approach to Restaurant Finance.
November 17, 2025

Ty Wilson and James Tice took different professional routes, but both grew up in restaurants and understand hospitality at its core. Wilson spent his childhood working in his parents restaurants before moving into investment banking. Tice started in rest

Pitch The Tide – Beth Hussey: Founder of Shifty
November 13, 2025

In this episode of Pitch The Tide, Beth Hussey, founder of Shifty, steps up to share how her platform is transforming restaurant training and retention. A lifelong operator turned tech founder, Beth built Shifty to solve one of hospitalitys biggest pain

The Michael Jordan Rule for Discipline with David Meltzer
November 12, 2025

In this latest Coaching Call with entrepreneur, podcast host, and mentor David Meltzer, host Shawn Walchef share a wide-ranging conversation that moves from the NFL to personal discipline, from content creation to faith. It is part mentorship, part friend

Rising Tides Live: Treat Your Content Like Experiments
November 11, 2025

In this session of Rising Tides Live, hosted by Shawn Walchef and Elizabeth Doss, the conversation focused on treating content like experiments rather than finished products. The group explored how play, creativity, and imperfection lead to growth both pe

Meet Patty AI: The Smart System Built for Restaurants
November 10, 2025

When Luis Martinez-Moure and Adarsh Nagesh started talking, it wasnt a pitch meeting. It was a collision of two people who saw the same problem from different worlds. Luis had spent years inside DoorDash and Instacart, learning how chaotic operations cou

Pitch The Tide – Pathway: Luis Martinez-Moure
November 07, 2025

This weekly Friday series gives founders the mic to share their vision and get unfiltered feedback from a community of operators, leaders, and peers. In this session, Luis Martinez-Moure presented Pathway, the company behind Patty, an AI-powered assistant

MaaS Media as a Service The HOT New Business Model
November 06, 2025

Media as a Service: The New Blueprint for B2B Creators Shawn Walchef believes the future of business storytelling belongs to creators who act like media companies. The founder of Cali BBQ and Cali BBQ Media has turned a San Diego barbecue joint into a dig

Rising Tides Live: 2026 Starts Now! Stop Waiting For The Circle Back
November 04, 2025

In this session of Rising Tides Live, hosted byShawn Walchef, the conversation centered on closing the year strong, not circling back. The group discussed how operators, creators, and partners can stay proactive during the final stretch of the year by s

Modernizing Electronic Tip Payments with Kickfin
November 03, 2025

Great restaurant groups are built behind the scenes long before guests take their seats. RA Ventures is one of those groups. It has grown to 55 locations across multiple concepts by investing in the invisible work that makes restaurants run: training, adm