New podcast: Burn the Menu with Chef Stephen Coe · Get notified →
New podcast: Burn the Menu with Chef Stephen Coe · Get notified →
Chef Stephen Coe's podcast · Coming soon
Turning up the heat on food, business and ambition. Unfiltered conversations with the chefs, operators, farmers, makers and rule-breakers reshaping the industry.
Coming to Apple Podcasts · Spotify · YouTube
Burn the Menu is a bold, high-energy food industry podcast hosted by award-winning chef, culinary competitor and industry disruptor Stephen Coe. The show strips away the polished veneer of food media to explore what it actually takes to succeed in food: creatively, financially and personally.
This is not food television in audio form. It is a show about pressure, reinvention, decision-making and survival, from the heat of the line to the realities of running a food business.
What we talk about
01
What deserves respect, and what needs to go.
02
Margins, staffing, sourcing, scaling and sustainability.
03
Competition cooking, leadership decisions and high-stakes moments.
04
Food trucks, pop-ups, pivots, failures and reinvention.
05
Stories from chefs, farmers, makers, operators and disruptors.
Every episode
45 to 60 minutes. A cold open that sets the tone, a deep-dive conversation, then the Burn Segment: rapid-fire questions, hot takes and rule-breaking insight.
A tradition or belief that needs to change.
A real kitchen or business story.
Breaking down the financial realities.
Rapid-fire advice and hot takes.
One thing the guest would change about the industry.
Your host
Beat Bobby Flay on Food Network, then won Chopped: Ultimate Redemption and Chopped Grill Masters. World Food Championships winner, World Bacon Champion, Johnson & Wales graduate, and Executive Chef of Marshfield Country Club.
On Burn the Menu, Chef Coe is not a TV personality. He's a guide, challenger and truth-teller for an industry that doesn't slow down and doesn't forgive mistakes.
Line cooks through executive chefs.
The people signing the checks and the leases.
Independent food entrepreneurs building from scratch.
Early-career cooks who want the real story first.
Burn the Menu launches on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube. Leave your email and we'll tell you the minute it's live.
Guests · Sponsors · Press
Burn the Menu features guests who have earned their perspective through experience, pressure and risk: independent chefs, owners and operators, food truck and pop-up founders, farmers and producers, competitors and judges, food brand founders and makers.
Bring strong opinions rooted in real experience, and be ready to talk honestly about failure and success. PR-driven appearances and recipe-only conversations are not a fit.
Sponsors: food and ingredient brands, kitchen equipment, hospitality tech, chef apparel and culinary education.
