Restaurant Unstoppable Creators & Guests

Shawn Walchef is a media marketing coach, restaurateur, host of the Digital Hospitality podcast, and Founder of Cali BBQ Media.

Dave Hirschkop is a successful serial entrepreneur and innovator known for his offbeat marketing (used to wear a straight jacket to trade shows), award-winning products, and his humor. He used to own and run Burrito Madness restaurant, wrote a spicy food cookbook, Crazy from the Heat, and currently runs Dave’s Gourmet, Inc.

David Scott Peters is a restaurant coach and speaker who teaches restaurant operators how to cut costs and increase profits with his trademark Restaurant Prosperity Formula. Known as the restaurant expert in the industry, he uses a no-BS style to teach and motivate restaurant owners and managers to take control of their businesses and finally realize their full potential. Thousands of restaurants have used his formula to transform their businesses.

Sondra is the proprietor of the girl & the fig in Sonoma, the fig café & winebar in Glen Ellen, and a unique event space in Sonoma known as Suite D. Full-service catering along with a food truck, dubbed “the fig rig,”, the girl & the fig Farm and her newest endeavor, The Bite Goes On, a weekly podcast discussing all aspects of the food world, round out her fig empire. She is the author of the the girl & the fig Cookbook, Plats du Jour: the girl & the fig’s Journey through the Seasons in Wine and her newspaper called Fig Chronicles that comes out several times per year. Her gourmet foodproduct line is available nationwide under the girl & the fig label and her curated house wines are only available at the restaurants or online. In addition to these businesses, The Sonoma FIG Foundation Fund was established in December of 2016. The Fund offers grants to nonprofit organizations that help startup entrepreneurs with funding in food, farming,food media, wine and spirits, restaurants, artisanal food production or new projects for existing businesses.

Iliana Vega is a chef, restaurateur, educator, culinary consultant, and the Founder of El Naranjo.

Husband, Dad, Co-founder of HelloCast.com, and Host of the Freelance to Founder podcast on the Podglomerate network.

Aman Narang is an entrepreneur, and co-founder & president of Toast, sale and restaurant management platform.