Zach Neil of Beetle House: 5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became a Restauranteur

Alexandra Spirer
Authority Magazine
Published in
7 min readOct 20, 2020

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“Focus on relationships, not money. Relationships are the most valuable thing you’ll ever have on this planet. The relationships with your family and loved ones and friends and business partners. This is the fiber of life. Chasing paper is the pursuit of unhappiness. Chase relationships, chase happiness, and the money will follow”.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Zach Neil.

Zach Neil, also known as the Guru of Pop Culture and the King of Halloween, is a “Jack- O- Lantern”, of all trades — he is a girl-dad, the CEO of New Gold Empire, a recomposer with Zach Neil podcast on iTunes and Google Play, a business crusher, the author of The Nightmare Before Dinner, an experiential entertainment creator, a media director, producer, and consultant and Pandemic Pivot Proficient launching Pop Shop Kitchen. However, you may know Zach best from the Beetle House pop-up restaurants, first opened in New York City in April 2016.

Beetle House is a year-round celebration of Halloween with an artistic and thematic atmosphere inspired by

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Alexandra Spirer
Authority Magazine

I am an entrepreneur, publicist, journalist and event producer based in Sunny Florida. My passion is writing & giving back to others.