{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthe-line.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fbdca7da3-bdca7da3","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Episode 88: John Stage","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/aee198/aee1980a-64b6-46b1-9d28-04427d10c320/5aba9268-89c0-47b2-953c-e083c6e62893/1567531857artwork.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/5aba9268-89c0-47b2-953c-e083c6e62893\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Episode 88: John Stage\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Today’s guest is John Stage the owner of Dinosaur BBQ with 8 locations across NY, NJ and Connecticut. Dinosaur BBQ has a line of rubs and sauces available nationwide and the cookbook John released in 2001 has sold over 175k copies.  Dinosaur Bar-B-Que started as a mobile popup in 1983 at the Harley Rendezvous in NY, a motorycle meetup and then in 1988 went brick and mortar on Willow St. in Syracuse NY. Today on the show we’ll talk about how it all began with a 55 gallon drum sawed in half, what partnering with the Soros family did for the business both positive and negative, how having a consumer packaged goods line can impact a brick and mortar restaurant and how to survive for 30 years in the restaurant business. "}