No Pix After Dark Podcast

Season Premiere of NoPixAfterDarkPodcast we are back! The first guest is Alex Smith is the Founder and President of Atlas Restaurant Group, a nationally-acclaimed Baltimore-based hospitality group featuring twenty-five concepts currently open with more set to open in the near future. Aaron and Alex discussed everything from the his interest in Restaurant Management, the shutdown for COVID, opening more restaurants in the Baltimore Area, over saturating the market, trials and tribulations the company has gone through . We talked about DEI training and how employees going to extensive training before they even began to work.   Smith founded the group in 2012 with the opening of Mediterranean kouzina Ouzo Bay in Baltimore, and has since grown the group in Maryland, Texas and Florida. Following five years as a professional lacrosse player and inspired to pursue a career in hospitality by his grandfather’s immense success with Baltimore’s H&S Bakery, Smith got his start operating a Häagen-Dazs franchise in Bal