Medium Fine — Los Angeles

A hospitality company,
built model-first.

Most restaurants are a chef's idea that grows into a company. We built the company first — entity, financial model, operating systems, and production infrastructure assembled before the first dining room ever opens.

FOXES — Santa Monica — Fall 2026. The proof.

A restaurant usually starts with a room and a menu. Then the room becomes a business, then the business becomes a company, then the company opens a second restaurant — if it gets that far. Most don't.

Every restaurant we open inherits an operating system on day one. Not just a kitchen, but an entire infrastructure — delivery, production, in-house media, a back office that leverages AI, not headcount.

We do all this because communities need places where people break bread. Restaurants like that have been closing. We're building a company that keeps opening them.

Medium Fine operating notes, 2024-2025
The Channels

Multi-channel by design.

01 — Restaurants
A dining room.

Neighborhood restaurants designed to last. The dining room is where the model becomes a room you can walk into.

02 — Delivery
A delivery program.

Inspired by the food in our dining room, not bolted on after. A first-class delivery menu drawn from our seasonal rotating daily menu.

03 — Commissary
A production kitchen.

A shared backbone that scales what's already working — across every restaurant we open and every channel we feed.

04 — Studio
An in-house media production studio.

Four years of photography and cinema-quality video production for the most recognized brands in food, now turned on our own restaurants.

The First Restaurant

FOXES

A neighborhood restaurant in Santa Monica, opening Fall 2026.

Dining + Delivery + Takeout  ·  Executive Chef Joe Fox
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Who's building it
  • Jesse Barber Co-Founder & Culinary Director
  • Ross Deutsch Co-Founder & CEO
  • Chef Joe Fox Exec Chef — FOXES
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What's next

The model is what we're building.
The restaurants are how you'll experience it.

Our second location opens in 2028. The model proves itself by repeating.

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