The Hospitalitarian Podcast

In this Episode, a follow up to my conversation with Frank Elias, the tables turn. What begins as a continuation of our earlier discussion becomes something else entirely — a fun, reflective, and I promise, completely unscripted conversation about transition, identity, and what comes after building a brand and letting go of it. Frank presses pause on the telling of his own story and asks me to talk honestly about mine: leaving the Farm table Eatery we founded inn Utica after 15 y...

Frank Elias is the founder of Utica Coffee roasting company, and for more than 20 years, he's been building one of the most dynamic beverage businesses in the Mohawk Valley. What began as a small Saturday only coffee shop has grown into a regional roaster shipping hundreds of thousands of pounds of coffee each year while staying deeply rooted in their community. So in this conversation we're gonna talk about growth, about staying inspired decades into a business's evolution and about what it...

Introducing The Hospitalitarian Podcast Tim and Melissa chat about the mission of this podcast and how this concept came to be, what to expect in future episodes, the history of where we’ve been and a glimpse of where we’re going. Be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and visit www.hospitalitarianpod.com to follow us on social media or to sign up our mailing list.

The Hospitalitarian podcast focuses on conversations with forward-thinking people who make the community of New York State hospitality compelling and noteworthy. If it's happening in food, beverage, or agriculture in New York, we are digging in.