About the Show

The podcast Nashville's restaurant community needed.

Your Host

Brandon Styll.

Nearly a decade as Director of Operations for some of Nashville's most respected restaurants. Owner of New Light Hospitality Solutions. Founder of the Nashville Area Restaurant Alliance (NARA).

Nashville Restaurant Radio started because independent restaurant operators are some of the hardest-working people in the city, and nobody was telling their real stories. Not the food reviews. Not the Instagram shots. The real stuff: building a business, managing people, navigating burnout, and figuring out how to keep going when the margins are thin and the hours are long.

Brandon saw it firsthand. The isolation. The lack of resources. The way operators were expected to figure everything out on their own. So he started a podcast. Sit down with the people doing the work, ask the real questions, and share what actually happens behind the pass.

426 episodes later, the mission has not changed.

Brandon Styll recording Nashville Restaurant Radio
The Mission

Strong restaurants build strong communities.

Everything flows from that idea. Restaurants are the backbone of Nashville's neighborhoods. They create jobs, feed families, shape culture, and bring people together. When restaurants thrive, communities thrive.

Nashville Restaurant Radio features honest conversations with owners, chefs, and founders about building businesses, navigating burnout, scaling teams, managing money, and staying human in one of the hardest industries on earth. No scripts. No sponsors steering the conversation. Just the real story.

Every episode is built on the belief that sharing these stories openly makes the entire community stronger.

Community

Nashville Area Restaurant Alliance (NARA)

Brandon also founded NARA, the Nashville Area Restaurant Alliance. NARA helps independent restaurants through collective purchasing power, shared resources, and community. The alliance gives independent operators access to the pricing, support, and connections that larger groups take for granted.

The podcast and NARA share the same core belief: independent restaurants do better when they work together instead of in isolation.

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Off the Clock

Beyond the mic.

Brandon has been married to his wife Jennifer for 20 years. They have two sons and live in Franklin, Tennessee. When he is not recording episodes or working with restaurant clients, you will find him coaching youth soccer, hiking, or chasing down the best food experiences Nashville has to offer.