Nick Kokonas of Tock & Alinea, flipping the low-margin restaurant model | E1262
About this episode
Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp 00:00 Nick Kokonas, CEO at Tock (acq. Squarespace) & Co-Owner of Alinea Restaurant Group 00:54 How Nick got into restaurants & met his co-founder Grant Achatz 09:30 Nick’s Angel investments 10:50 Ourcrowd - Check out the deal of the week at https://ourcrowd.com/twist 12:14 What OpenTable got wrong 18:05 Tock’s ticketing innovation 23:20 Benefits of having pre-paid reservations 25:00 Pipe - Start trading for free for 12 months at https://pipe.com/twist 26:40 Dynamic pricing in restaurants 28:55 Nick critiques Jason’s techniques …