Jeff & Jamie Feed
Jeff Tonidandel and Jamie Brown are a husband-and-wife team and founders of the Tonidandel-Brown Restaurant Group. With MBAs and over 15 years in hospitality, they’ve grown from 11 tables to six award-winning concepts, including Supperland—named one of Bon Appétit’s Ten Best New Restaurants in America. Their podcast, Jeff & Jamie Feed, goes beyond food to explore the restaurant business from every angle, uncovering lessons in growth, creativity, and community that resonate with entrepreneurs everywhere. Blending real-world experience with candid conversation, Jeff and Jamie share stories of building restaurants, teams, and opportunities—making their show as much about business and leadership as it is about dining. Their journey will also be featured in the PBS series Fork & Hammer.
Latest Episodes
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The Business of Seasonality
OCTOBER 14, 2025
This week on the podcast, Jeff and Jamie chat with Jesse Ledbetter from FreshList, a Charlotte-based company that aggregates produce from over 200 local and regional farms. Sitting right between two notoriously low-margin worlds—restaurants and farmers—Jesse s...
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Launching a New TV Show: Fork & Hammer
SEPTEMBER 29, 2025
This week on the podcast, Jeff & Jamie are hanging out with Scott Galloway—the producer behind the brand-new PBS TV series Fork & Hammer—featuring the Tonidandel-Brown Restaurant Group team. They swap stories about the rollercoaster of making a national public TV show right here in Cha...
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The Unchanging Essence of Hospitality
SEPTEMBER 22, 2025
Jeff and Jamie go back in time and chat with their first business partner, Paul Manley—a successful Charlotte restaurateur with experience in fine dining, fast casual, consulting, and more. Discussing the massive changes that have taken place since 2009 when these three went into business to o...
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