Post Shift Podcast #99 - H. Joseph Ehrmann of Elixir SF

A great chat with H from Elixir SF and so many more things, we get down to the driver of buying a 150 year old bar in 2003 and how he continues to leverage and build on the Elixir brand in San Francisco and further afield.

WHO IS H?

H. started his restaurant and bar career as a line cook in 1986 and went on to work in 28 different bars and restaurants before opening his own in 2003. In between, as his generation was prone to do, he did several other things, including a BA at Boston College, an MBA at Thunderbird, a bilingual stint in Madrid running a PR company, a global marketing job in the dot-com software business, and finally, post-dot-com work as a Brand Consultant and Co-Founder of a soup company. While bartending to make rent and MBA payments in 2002 he finally decided that the bar world was where he belonged, and he hasn't looked back since.

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