Niver Niver Land

About Niver Niver Land

PRESENTED BY LAND O LAKES FOODSERVICE Welcome to Niver Niver Land: a podcast that addresses massive change in the restaurant industry. The show is hosted by award-winning restaurateur Tim Niver – a local legend of Minnesota's Twin Cities – known for his involvement with fabled spots like Aquavit, Town Talk Diner, Saint Dinette, and Strip Club Meat & Fish. Today, he runs Mucci's Italian in St. Paul. Tim sees a major problem with industry dialogue: nobody is having realistic conversations about the ongoing, unprecedented change. Many of those who work in the industry are still trying to wrap their heads around what has happened over the last two years. Today, Tim is ready to talk about these things – through his trademark wit and foolishness – so that we can better appreciate and preserve the cultural importance of restaurants.

Publisher

Gleam Tower Media

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

15 Nov 2021

Latest episode

24 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

3 of 56 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   24 Jul 2026

   Jon Murray on People-First Hospitality and How We Change the Industry Forever

   Jon Murray, founder of Noko and Kase in East Nashville, joins Tim on Niver Niver Land for a conversation about what it actually takes to build restaurants around people first. Before Noko was ever a restaurant, Jon and his partners were already asking a deeper question: how do we take care of the people who make this industry work? In the wake of COVID, burnout, and the mass exodus from hospitality, they sat down and started naming what was broken, from paid time off to sustainability to the ...

2. 

   3 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Joe Rolle on Dario, Punk Rock, and Fighting for Restaurants

   Chef and Dario founder Joe Rolle joins Tim on Niver Niver Land for a raw, funny, and deeply personal conversation about food, survival, craft, and what it takes to keep a restaurant alive. Joe traces the path from growing up as a punk rock and skateboarding kid in a small town, working brutal days in his father’s logging business, struggling through school, addiction, ADHD, dyslexia, and eventually finding his way into kitchens. What started as a search for direction became a life in restaura...

3. 

   12 Jun 2026

   Matt Jennings on Reinvention, Recovery, and Building Better Restaurants

   Chef, author, restaurateur, and MAJC co-founder Matt Jennings joins Tim on Niver Niver Land for a wide-ranging conversation about what it really means to grow, fail, rebuild, and keep serving the hospitality industry in a new way. Matt’s career has taken him from acclaimed restaurants like Farmstead in Providence and Townsman in Boston to writing, consulting, coaching, and now to building MAJC, a hospitality platform focused on culture, hiring, retention, and training, and on helping restaura...

Inside a recent episode

Joe Rolle on Dario, Punk Rock, and Fighting for Restaurants

Published 3 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So the inside environment is important, but it's about getting rid of the noise and and kind of like immersing yourself into a different place whatever it is whatever you're taking in however you can take it in and it's just a an accepting moment it really is you know you want people to kind of be vulnerable to you and you you know you want them to kind of soften when they walk in and feel like you know i'm back you know or um or whoa this is you know you're trying to get them to you know you're trying to elicit some sort of emotional response you know like Stay connected, whatever it is. I think it is a part of our job. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

82 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

29 ratings

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