Cali BBQ Media Founder | Keynote Speaker | Restaurateur | Podcast Host | Content Collaborator “We will be friends forever, just you wait and see.” Winnie The Pooh Building The Amazon of BBQ in San Diego. Sharing everything we learn @CaliBBQMedia 🎥📲🤳🏻 Our new Restaurant Influencers Video Podcast with Entreprenuer Magazine reached over 12 million fans in 2022 on Entreprenuer.com!!! Thanks to Toast Point of Sale for Sponsoring the show! 📲❤️🚀 TikTok @shawnpwalchef “I am weirdly available.” -Ryan Reynolds ❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️ Chief Visionary Officer/ Founder 💭🌍❤️ @CaliBBQ since 2008 @CaliBBQMedia since 2017 Digital Hospitality Podcast Host 🎧 Restaurant Influencers Podcast Host 🎧 Own Their Phones Podcast Co-Host 🎧 Restaurant Idea Factory Co-Host 🎧 Generated over $33M in sales since 🚀 Opened first friendly ghost kitchen 2021 📍 Snapdragon Stadium 📍 Viejas Arena Location #5 coming to San Diego State University Area in 2022 👻📲❤️ ❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️ 📺 Featured on David Meltzer’s “2 Minute Drill” on Amazon Prime TV 🎥 Guest appearances on CBS, ABC, Fox, KPBS, NBC and KUSI News. 📰 Featured in the New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc. Magazine, San Diego Magazine, Eater & Thrillist 📕 Help my grandfather, Luben S. Walchef, self publish his memoir, “How a Bulgarian Farm Boy Grew Wealthy in La Jolla, California. 🚚 Available on Amazon ❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️ 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Proud New Dad for our @WalchefWolfpack 👰‍♀️ My Bulgarian Bride @Rosetoboseto 🥃 Alcoholic Bar Owner in a Program of Recovery since 2012 👶🏻 Never met my father 🇧🇬 Raised by my Bulgarian Mamba Grandfather & Japanese Grandmother 🇯🇵 🍴 Bus Boy & Dishwasher at age 13 🏝 Raised in White Immigrant Privilege in La Jolla, California 🏛 Rejected by all three San Diego Law Schools 🔑 Opened @CaliBBQ in 2008 during the Great Recession 📍 Laughed at for the location we picked 🍖 Laughed at for slow smoking meats on the West Coast 🎥 Laughed at for becoming a BBQ Media Company ⚡️ Unapologetic Chargers Super Fan PFUFA Class of 2017 🍖 Host of the Largest Amateur BBQ Contest in California #SVBBQFest 🐎 #BETonBBQ KCBS BBQ Contest Organizer at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club ❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️ DM me anytime @shawnpwalchef on IG, LinkedIn, Clubhouse, Twitter, TikTok and FB To learn more about my Media Marketing Coaching Program set up a free digital review of your profile by booking a Zoom call with me. [email protected] www.calibbq.media