Ghost Kitchens - The Future of BBQ | Shawn P. Walchef | Cali Comfort BBQ

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ghost Kitchens - it sounds like a great name for a horror movie, but they could just be the future of BBQ. Shawn P. Walchef, founder of iconic California BBQ joint Cali Comfort BBQ is our guest on this incredible episode of the Smoking Hot Confessions BBQ Podcast. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A serial entrepreneur, Shawn also happens to be one of the best BBQ Pitmasters not just in San Diego, but on the West Coast, and his barbecue smoked meat, including brisket burnt ends are the stuff of barbeque legend. But that’s not it. He also loves digital media and fully believes that investing in digital technologies is essential to the longevity of barbeque businesses. His first foray into digital media was the award winning Behind the Smoke Podcast with friend and colleague Derek Marso. That show won Best Audio Series at the NBBQA Conference in 2019. At that point, Shawn founded Cali BBQ Media and the Behind the Smoke BBQ Podcast became the Digital Hospitality podcast. Then the world changed, and Shawn doubled down on the power of digital technology and has literally transformed Cali Comfort BBQ into something new and ready for the new world. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this Episode of the Smoking Hot Confessions BBQ Podcast, Shawn and I get into:</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">His newest smoker, a Traeger (4:55)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The $5,000,001 business pitch to Amazon (7:51)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How Cali Comfort BBQ was founded (18:40)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The story of the Behind the Smoke Podcast and how it evolved into the Digital Hospitality Podcast (27:08)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "f