Alexandra Lourdes and Steve Jerome, the team behind Cafe Lola, Saint Honore, and Three Little Chicks in Las Vegas, joined Sean Kelly on the Digital Social Hour to talk about building a multi-concept restaurant business from the ground up. The conversation opens with how their different backgrounds came together around a shared focus on quality and healthier menu options.
From there, the discussion covers the realities of running restaurants through a pandemic, handling negative reviews, and using marketing instincts honed outside the restaurant world to keep growing — right up to their plans for what comes next.
About Alexandra Lourdes & Steve Jerome
Alexandra Lourdes and Steve Jerome co-founded a growing Las Vegas restaurant group that includes Cafe Lola, Saint Honore, and Three Little Chicks, built around gluten-free and dairy-free menu options across their concepts. Together, they now lead a team of more than 120 employees across their locations.
Both founders came to the restaurant business with marketing and branding backgrounds — one of them started an agency after organizing a successful event for their first client — and that consumer-facing experience has shaped how they built and grew their restaurant brands through social media, including during the pandemic.
What Alexandra Lourdes & Steve Jerome and Sean Kelly Talked About
- How Alexandra Lourdes and Steve Jerome built a multi-concept restaurant group in Las Vegas
- Why they built their menus around healthy, gluten-free, and dairy-free options
- How their marketing and branding backgrounds shaped the growth of their restaurants
- The impact negative reviews can have on a small restaurant business and its team
- How they used social media to keep their restaurants going through the pandemic
- Their plans to scale the business, including a promising doughnut concept
- What it takes to run a team of more than 120 employees across multiple concepts
- Their approach to raising capital and launching new products for growth ahead
Why This Conversation Matters
Alexandra Lourdes and Steve Jerome's conversation with Sean Kelly is a grounded look at what it actually takes to build and scale a multi-concept restaurant business. It's a candid account of the marketing instincts, resilience, and teamwork behind Cafe Lola, Saint Honore, and Three Little Chicks.
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About Sean Kelly & the Digital Social Hour
Sean Kelly is an entrepreneur and the host of the Digital Social Hour, one of the fastest-growing interview podcasts in the world, where he sits down with entrepreneurs, athletes, creators, and cultural voices for candid, long-form conversations. The show draws over 100 million views a month across platforms. Explore more guest features on SeanKelly.io.
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