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A Dose of OptimismCommunity Health InnovationsImproving children’s health requires more than medical care alone. It depends on access to nutritious food, early learning support, trusted information, and healthcare systems designed around families.In this episode of A Dose of Optimism, Omkar Kulkarni speaks with three leaders working across different parts of the pediatric ecosystem. Sam Polk, CEO of Everytable, shares how food access and affordability shape health outcomes and why he believes nutritious meals should be available in every community. Patti Miller, Director of Too Small to Fail (Clinton Foundation), discusses the role of early childhood development, media, an...
2025-12-2332 min
Office Hours with David MeltzerHeather Spilsbury, Martha Lawrence, Scott Empringham | Office Hours #780Heather Spilsbury
Heather Spilsbury is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Marketing Officer of 50/50 Women on Boards, where she leads global brand strategy and oversees operations to drive the campaign’s growth. A seasoned marketing strategist and business development leader, she specializes in creating multichannel campaigns that turn audiences into advocates, raise capital, and drive acquisitions, while also educating stakeholders on industry trends. Before joining 50/50 Women on Boards, Heather served as VP of Marketing and Strategy at a Los Angeles creative agency, where she scaled the business from $3 million to $26 million in under three years and launched it...
2025-09-1139 min
GroundedEverytable: Nourishing Change with Sam Polk - Grounded Podcast: Leaders in Produce, Food Service & Restaurant Supply ChainJoin us in welcoming our esteemed guest, Sam Polk, Founder & CEO of Everytable, for an enlightening conversation with Lauren Mitchell! Together, they delve into the critical issue of health disparities in underserved neighborhoods and explore Everytable's mission to create a more equitable world. Sam provides valuable insights into the company's commitment to accessibility and profitability, making this conversation an inspiring and impactful exploration of the transformative work happening at Everytable. Don't miss out on this enlightening discussion!Takeaways:Everytable provides an inviting space with tables for dining and a diverse menu of freshly...
2023-11-2935 min
Founders In LABridging the Food Inequality Gap with EverytableWe dive into the world of food inequality with Sam Polk, founder and CEO of Everytable. With a past rooted in Wall Street and a drive to make fresh, healthy food accessible for everyone, Polk's story is a testament to the power of mission-driven entrepreneurship. Listen in as he discusses the challenges and triumphs of creating a business that challenges the norm and aims to eradicate food deserts in underserved communities. From discussing the inception of Everytable to highlighting the challenges of operationalizing a fresh food business at fast food prices, this episode provides a unique insight into the...
2023-09-1318 min
Fitt Insider201. Sam Polk, Co-founder & CEO of EverytableToday, I'm joined by Sam Polk, co-founder & CEO of Everytable, a food company making nutritious, made-from-scratch meals available at fast-food prices. Sam Polk, a former Wall Street trader turned social entrepreneur, founded Everytable with the aim to address food inequality by providing affordable, convenient healthy meals to underserved communities. Upending the traditional restaurant model, the company uses centralized, chef-led kitchens to supply grab-and-go storefronts, commercial SmartFridges, and direct-to-consumer offerings. In this episode, we learn about Everytable's variable pricing model that adjusts based on the median income level of the zip codes it serves. Sam also s...
2023-08-2942 minFitt Insider201. Sam Polk, Co-founder & CEO of EverytableToday, I'm joined by Sam Polk, co-founder & CEO of Everytable, a food company making nutritious, made-from-scratch meals available at fast-food prices. Sam Polk, a former Wall Street trader turned social entrepreneur, founded Everytable with the aim to address food inequality by providing affordable, convenient healthy meals to underserved communities. Upending the traditional restaurant model, the company uses centralized, chef-led kitchens to supply grab-and-go storefronts, commercial SmartFridges, and direct-to-consumer offerings. In this episode, we learn about Everytable's variable pricing model that adjusts based on the median income level of the zip codes it serves. Sam also s...
2023-08-2942 min
Hospitality Hangout | Expert Strategies & Industry Trends from Hospitality InsidersCrave to Conquer: Unleashing the Secrets of Restaurant Marketing | Season 9, Vol. 14In the latest episode of Hospitality Hangout, hosts Michael Schatzberg, known as "The Restaurant Guy," and Jimmy Frischling, "The Finance Guy," deep-dive into the intricacies of restaurant marketing with industry insiders, Joe Reinstein, Executive Director of the Digital Restaurant Association (DRA), and Karim Webb, Buffalo Wild Wings Franchisee and Principal at Webb Investments.Reinstein, who holds the dual role of CEO and Acting Chair of the Board of Directors at the DRA, spearheads the association's mission to guide restaurants in maximizing profitability and growth in the digital world. This encompasses advocacy for public policy, educational resources...
2023-07-2548 min
How Can I Help?Help Bring Healthy Food to EveryTableWe know that a diet consisting of only unhealthy fast food is linked to all kinds of health problems and even a shorter life span, but in areas where the median income is at poverty levels, fast food is all you’ll find. We call them food deserts or more accurately, food apartheid. Our guests today are working to change this.Sam Polk is co-founder and CEO of Everytable, a food company that fights for food justice and equality by providing nutritious food that is accessible and affordable for everyone.In 2016, Sam, together with fri...
2023-05-0241 min
Menu TalkHow Sam Polk is making healthy meals accessible and affordable in food deserts across the U.S.Sam Polk, founder and CEO of Everytable, launched the social enterprise grab-and-go concept in Los Angeles in 2015. His goal was to provide healthy, affordable meals in neighborhoods that are often classified as food deserts.
The chef-inspired food is prepared at a central commissary to keep pricing low and is delivered to Everytable store locations, refrigerated vending machines and directly to consumers. The customer base includes more affluent diners, too, and Polk follows a variable pricing model, charging according to zip code. But the menu of salads, wraps and warm bowls, which includes best-sellers like Jamaican jerk chicken...
2022-07-0721 min
Corner Table TalkS1:E25 Sam Polk & Chef Bryce Fluellen I Food for ChangeFor there to be a well-balanced society, how important is access to affordable, nutritious, and convenient food? This week's guests, Sam Polk, Founder & CEO, and Chef Bryce Fluellen, Executive Director, Social Equity Franchise Program, of the ground-breaking company, Everytable, say it's a human right and they're on a mission to help transform the food system. Founded in 2016, Everytable is a multi-channel, fresh-prepared food business blending grab-and-go storefronts, a subscription delivery service, SmartFridges, and institutional food service, all supplied by a central kitchen with meals priced according to neighborhood income. A former hedge fund trader, Sam left a s...
2021-08-121h 12
The PUSH Project PodcastThe PUSH Project Podcast EP. 007 || KARIM WEBBSend us a text"LOVE NEEDS TO SHOW UP, WHEREVER LEADERSHIP OCCURS."Karim Webb is an Entrepreneurial Activist and CEO of 4thMVMT, a Los Angeles based firm that vets, trains, facilitates funding, and partners with individuals from underservedcommunities to own and operate competitive retail businesses.Before founding 4thMVMT, Mr. Webb co-founded PCF Restaurant Management, a franchisee of Buffalo Wild Wings("BWW"). PCF has four restaurants in the Los Angeles area, withfour additional units in development. Webb's leadership and advocacy for a more equ...
2021-06-2344 min
JOON Founder SeriesJOON Founder Series: Sam Polk, CEO of EverytableJonathan from JOON sits down to chat with Sam Polk, CEO of Everytable.
2021-05-0129 min
How To Citizen with BaratundeOwnership Is Key (with Sam Polk)Everytable founder, Sam Polk, wants to change the way we do business by not only creating jobs, but going a step further to create wealth-building, ownership opportunities through a social franchise model. In this episode, we follow Sam’s journey from Wall Street tycoon, to nonprofit connoisseur, to social entrepreneur, and how he found himself with a new mission to transform the food system by making it delicious and profitable for everyone. Guest: Sam Polk CEO of EverytableTwitter: @SamPolkBio: Sam Polk is the founder and CEO of Everytable, a social enterprise on a...
2021-04-1533 min
QSR UncutThe 40/40 List: EverytableThe 40/40 List launched in 2017 as a way to identify the quick serves and fast casuals that have the best shot at becoming the next big thing—the rising stars of the restaurant industry. Starting over each year with a new set of 40 brands, we've highlighted 200 concepts that we think have got what it takes to become the next Chipotle or Shake Shack.For our fifth edition of the 40/40 List, we'll be sharing interviews all month on the Fast Forward feed with founders and leaders at several of this year's 40/40 brands. Next up is Sam Polk, cofounder and CE...
2021-02-1930 min
The Feed009- The future of convenience stores with Frank Beard & Sam Polk of EverytableFrank Beard is a retail consultant, speaker, and writer who is a thought leader in the convenience store space and Sam Polk is the CEO of Everytable, a retailer of pre-prepared meals whose mission is to make nutritious, delicious food accessible and affordable in every community. 93% of Americans live within a 10 minute drive of a convenience store, making them incredibly attractive real estate. In this episode, we explore ideas around healthy grab-and-go meals, electric vehicle charging, food delivery, and curbside pickup from these last-mile hubs.
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2021-01-1951 min
Brand New Blueprint by SmoketownEverytable: Sam Polk, Founder & CEOHow did Everytable, a social enterprise in Los Angeles, create a food service business that can solve two persistent symptoms of racism -- food deserts and the wealth gap? When Sam Polk quit his coveted job on Wall Street, he watched a Netflix documentary about poverty and food that lit a fire...eventually leading to Everytable, a brilliant restaurant chain in South L.A. Everytable has figured out how to sell high quality, incredibly healthy food that is affordable for residents of underserved communities, while giving them the opportunity to be owners. In this episode, Sam shares h...
2020-12-1558 min
The Founder HourSam Polk | How Everytable is Making Nutritious, Fresh Food Accessible to EveryoneSam Polk is the founder and CEO of Everytable, whose mission is to make sure everyone, everywhere has access to nutritious, fresh food at affordable prices.In this episode, we chat about Sam’s tough upbringing and family life, his college experience and getting kicked out (and reinstated) at Columbia University, working on Wall Street trading bonds and derivatives, leaving Wall Street at the height of his career without a plan, the motivation for founding a non-profit called FEAST, the issues he discovered about food access in America, what led him to start Everytable, his thoughts on no...
2020-11-091h 29
Plant ProphetsSocial Equity In CannabisSocial equity in cannabis with Karim Webb the CEO of 4thMVMT and multi-unit Franchisee of Buffalo Wild Wings. 4thMVMT is a Los Angeles based firm that seeks, vets, trains, finances, and partners with individuals from “underserved communities” to own and operate competitive retail businesses. Webb’s entrepreneurial experience and history of engagement within “at-risk youth” in Los Angeles has lead him to his true life purpose, philanthropic work promoting leadership development, and entry-level employment as a gateway to a fulfilled life. Karim believes opportunity and progress do not just happen but that working toward creating even the smallest ripple is capable of...
2020-07-0836 min
Wharton Business Radio Guest AudioSam Polk on Dollars and ChangeSam Polk, Co-Founder and CEO of Everytable, joins hosts Sandi Hunt and Sherryl Kuhlman on Dollars and Change. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2019-04-2227 min
Dollars and Change PodcastSam Polk, Founder and CEO of Everytable, on Solving the Challenge of Food DesertsSam Polk, Founder and CEO of Everytable, joins hosts Sandi Hunt and Sherryl Kuhlman to discuss how Everytable aims to solve the challenge of food deserts—communities with limited access to healthy food. Everytable sells healthy, affordable meals through a business model that is focused on impact. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2019-04-1926 min
On Foodable WeeklyEverytable: The Oasis found in Food DesertsFoodable met up with some of the great minds in hospitality at this year’s HUB conference in Southern California. On this episode of On Foodable Weekly we hear how CEO Sam Polk started Everytable and how the company stays profitable. Everytable creates healthy grab-and-go meals and sells them for cheaper than the price of local fast food. The goal is that everyone, even those in food deserts, can afford to feed their families nourishing meals. Everytable is able to offer these meals at such low prices due to their small stor...
2017-09-0604 min
Behind the Book CoverGetting Over An Addiction to Money (and Everything Else) With Sam PolkAuthor Sam Polk has had an interesting journey to authorship. The former hedge fund manager had traveled what many would consider the picture perfect upward trajectory journey, escaping the confines of a "Willy Loman-like dad" and landing at Columbia University. But an addiction to drugs and alcohol, among other vices, helped him get kicked out. No matter! He landed on Wall Street, where he quickly rose to the top. But then he realized, as some do, that the top was empty and that his lifelong belief that enough money would cure all that ailed him wasn't true. And so...
2016-10-2837 min
Listen Money Matters - Free your inner financial badass. All the stuff you should know about personal finance.For the Love of Money – A Chat with Sam PolkHow would you feel if you made $3.75 million in bonuses a year? It hard to imagine but our guest has done it. And he wrote a book about it! Today we have a chat with Sam Polk, author of For the Love of Money. For most people, that amount of money would be enough to live a more than a comfortable lifestyle for many years. I can’t even begin to imagine what that would feel like, but if I had to guess, I would say it would probably feel pretty damn good. For today’s gues...
2016-10-1748 min