E144 - Episode 136: Allison Balfour with Southerleigh Hospitality Group

In this episode of Corner Booth, Chris Tripoli interviews Allison Balfour, cofounder of Southerleigh Hospitality Group, as she shares an operator’s perspective shaped by both hotel management and independent restaurant ownership. Before launching her own concepts, Allison spent years working in full‑service hotels and luxury properties, where she gained exposure to large teams, service culture, and structured operating systems that later influenced how she built her restaurant group.

The conversation focuses on the challenges of managing multiple restaurant concepts within a single organization. Rather than scaling one brand repeatedly, Southerleigh developed distinct concepts with different serv...