Resy and Eater: Ben Leventhal

I don't think people understand quite how hard restaurants are. Yeah. If you think about the moving parts at the average independent restaurant and how complicated the production and assembly and delivery of food is to the table. And you compare that to any other small business. it's orders of magnitude more difficult. I mean you don't walk into a store

And say I need a pair of socks and sneakers and somebody down in the basement makes you the shoes and socks. Yeah. But that's what happens when you walk into a restaurant. Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements. They built.

I'm Guy Roz and on the show today, how Ben Leventhal's appreciation of restaurants helped him build Eater and then Rezi. A booking service that over the past year has seated three hundred and fifty million diners. If you ask me to name my favorite restaurant It's

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript, segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

10 free credits is 10 episodes like this one a month. Episodes nobody has transcribed yet cost their length in hours, because we have to actually transcribe them.