On this episode of The Ric and Dan Show, our hosts sit down with Brett Soucy of Frank's Bake Shop and talk about the 80th anniversary, preparing for succession, and free pizza ASMR with special guest star David Bender.

Brett leads the conversation towards a business's reputation and responsibility, his history of working at the bakery under his grandfather, what he learned in a London pub, family businesses and chafing interests, the extra pressures upon legacy businesses, the bakeshop's connection to the United Nations, "bringing back the pizza", weathering COVID through shifting models, Frank's physical footprint in Bangor, creating a dialogue between company and customer, and creating a team culture that cares for each other.

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On the first episode of The Ric and Dan Show, our hosts sit down with Chris Keegan of Coffee Hound Coffee Co. and talk about community, chance encounters, and most importantly, coffee.

Chris shares his story of one fateful Thursday morning, a lucky find on the streets of Bar Harbor, the most disgusting and most delicious coffee he'd seen in the military, bringing people together with beans, marketing Maine without marketing "Maine", losing his shop to COVID and starting all over again, the misuse of language in the coffee industry, the "UMaine Thing", one of the origins of the name "Coffee Hound Coffee", and his quest to turn nothing into something.

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