All Episodes

#136 Decoding Success with Andrew Wilkinson Part 2

#136 Decoding Success with Andrew Wilkinson Part 1

#135 Party Lines and Harvest Lines

#134 Thinking Outside the Box with Chris Jameson and Clayton Frost

#133 Maryanne Carmack (Roast) & Cristen DeCarolis Dallas (Pizzeria Prima Strada).

#132 Diana Gibson - MLA for Oak Bay-Gordon Head

#131 Power, Privilege, and Progress

#130 A Conversation with Dave Thompson

#129 From Vines to Vision: Maddison Violet of Veohlay Acres

#128 The Last Bites of 2025

#127 The Economics of Good Food

#126 Not All Butter Chicken Is The Same

#125 The Importance of Downtown Hotels

#124 Coffee, Community, and the Cost of Everything

#123 Hospitality with Shawn Soole

#122 Your Olive Oil Sommelier - Emily Lycopolus

#121 Ends And Endeavours

#120 Connecting Over Meals with Paul Stewart

#119 The Importance Of Collaborative Cooking

#118 Bread & Butter Podcast: At the Cooks Camp Farm

#117 Money, Meaning, and the Messy Bits in Between

#116 Growing Change: Urban Farming with Alistair Howes of FED

#115 Zamian Parsons and the art of golf bags

#114 Brewing the Perfect Bean: Coffee from Farm to Roast

#113 People, Payroll & Perks with Maryanne Carmack and Cristen Decarollis

#112 Changing Tastes

#111 Bread and Butter - Back in the Game

#110 Ginger Henderson - Counselling Services

#109 Bruce Williams - CEO of the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce

#108 Dave Thompson - City of Victoria Councillor

#107 Global Flavors, Calen Returns with Fresh Insights

#106 Jason Chan - Ghost Ramen

#105 Jeff Bray - Executive Director of the Downtown Business Association

#104 Treska Watson - Mustard Seed - Executive Director

# 103 LMIA, Immigration Laws, and the Workforce Struggle in Canada

#102 Robert Belcham - Popina Canteen Co-Owner

#101 Latest news, tariffs, and their effect on business

#100 Tara Black from Origin Bakery

#90 Andrew Moyer - Ottavio Italian Bakery & Delicatessen Cafe

#89 Sam and Calen are back! Changes in business

#88 Mara Jernigan - Hospitality and food safety

#87 Back to Basics

#86 Krista Loughton - Victoria City Councillor & Documentary Filmmaker

#85 Alistair Howes, Get Fed Urban Agriculture

#84 Elections, new politics, and preparing your business for changes

#83 Plan for the known knows and leave space for the not-knowns

#82 Chef Castro - House of Boateng

#81 Adapting your business to a new community

#80 Theresa Ito - Blue Mountain Solutions

#79 Solomon Siegel - Pagliacci’s Owner

#78 Evaluating the risk in business

#77 Season Finale and recap

#76 Melanie Laverick - Empire Donuts

#75 Shane Deveraux - Habit Coffee

#74 Byron Fry - Fry’s Bakery Owner

#73 Carbon Tax and housing

#72 Audrey Alsterberg - Pure Vanilla

#71 Coffee and roasters with John Sanders

#70 Core values in partnerships

#69 Sterling Grice - Foo Asian Steet Food

#68 Peter Zambri - Zambri’s

#67 Andrew Furness - The Doughnut Vault

#65 Greg Hays - Cafe Brio

#64 CEBA Loan

#63 Chris Jones from Jones Bar-B-Que and The Ruby

#62 Christmas decorations?

#61 Business advice with John Reese

#60 Balancing Work and Passion

#59 CEBA loan with Maryanne Carmack and Cristen DiCarolis

#58 Milk products and texture changing?

#57 Housing and Apps

#56 Collaboration

#55 Dairy products and restrictions

#54 Prices and expectations

#53 - Job Descriptions

#52 - Business, life and global warming

#51 - Be all that ends all

#50 - Expenses VS Revenue

#49 - Disappointment

#48 - Hospitality

#47 - The empowered hour

#46 - Calen in Vegas

#45 - Mental Health in the Workplace

#44 - Get Back to Basics!

#43 - Exiting a location

#42 - Opening a new location

#41 - Assessing the Living Wage

#40 - Perceptions and Impressions

#39 - Living Wages

#38 - The cost of doing business

#37 - Waste Goals (Pt.2) Reacting to a proposed Victoria Bylaw

#36 - Waste Goals(Pt.1) Reacting to a proposed Victoria Bylaw

#35 – Year end review and wrap-up

#34 – Community building and place making. The impacts decisions have on the future of Victoria

#33 - Hiring & Firing, Navigating this aspect of employee management

#32 - Blowing it up and seeing where it lands

#31 - The Shift in Employee Culture

#30 - Vacations, frustrations, and hopes for Victoria's future.

#29 - Food Sustainability with FED (Food Eco District)

#28 - FATSO Peanut Butter Owner, Jill Van Gyn-Carr

#27 - Victoria Council Candidate Janice Williams

#26 - Victoria City Council Candidate, Dave Thompson

# 25 - Victoria City Council Candidate Krista Loughton

#24 - Wins/Losses, Leases, and Politics. Oh My! Welcome to Season 3!

#23 - Tutti Allegation Reactions, and Delivery App Woes

#22 - There's Light at the End of the Tunnel... And It's Not a Train

#21 - Bread and Butter's "First Dad" Eddy Carmack

#20 - Listening and Learning About Current Events

#19 - The Tide Floats All Boats

#18 - Sheringham Distillery owner Jason MacIsaac

#17 - Brasserie L'Ecole owner Marc Morrison

#16 - Game Theory Applied to Business Management

#15 - Calen's Big Wheel Burger and Zambri's Origin Story

#14 - Sam's 2% Jazz Origin Story

#13 - The Heart and Soul of Business Teams

#12 - Meet the owners of Hey Happy & Roast

#11 - We're back for Season 2! Catching up with Sam & Calen

#10 - Season One Recap and Reflections

#9 - Business Operating Systems

#8 - Providing A Living Wage

#7 - Mental Health in the Hospitality Industry

#6 - Entering, Surviving, and Thriving in Hospitality

#5 - Lockdowns and Mask Mandates in Hospitality

#4 - The Do's and Don'ts of Delivery Apps

#3 - Women in Business

#2 - The Business of Cash

#1 - What is Bread & Butter Collective?