Curious about how I make CRAVE Supper Club: A Brand Experience Immersion so....cravey? CRAVE isn’t just a supper club. It is a feeling. And it’s a framework.

Most brands focus on what they offer. The ones people crave focus on how they make them feel.

After 25 years in hospitality, one truth has proven itself again and again: unforgettable brands aren’t built on deliverables alone. They’re built on experience. Experience is designed. It’s intentional. And when done right, it creates desire that lingers long after the moment is over.

C is for Carefully Curated, Crafted, & Considered

Curated means you choose on purpose. What’s included, what’s excluded, and what the experience communicates without explanation. Crafted is the discipline of turning those choices into something polished, cohesive, and elevated through skill and care.

Considered is where most brands miss the mark. This isn’t about big “wow” moments or grand gestures. It’s about the quiet intelligence behind the experience. The small, ordinary, often overlooked parts. How something feels in the hand. How easy it is to navigate. How the experience flows when no one is watching.

Care is communicated in the mundane. When the simplest moments feel thoughtful, people feel looked after. When friction disappears in places they didn’t expect to think about, trust builds subconsciously. That’s how a brand feels human. That’s how people feel genuinely cared for.

R is for Reimagined

Most brands are trapped by the unspoken rules of their industry. They copy what already exists and then wonder why they’re invisible.

Reimagining means questioning everything. The format. The delivery. The environment. Even the business model itself. What would this look like if you weren’t trying to be “appropriate”? What would actually stand out?

People aren’t craving more content, more webinars, or more noise. They’re craving novelty, humanity, and experiences that feel alive. When you reimagine what’s possible, you give them something they didn’t know they were missing.

A is for Anticipation

Craving starts before the experience begins.

Anticipation is the emotional runway that makes the moment land harder. It’s built through thoughtfulness, timing, and details that signal care. When people feel seen before they even arrive, desire starts building early.

Great brands understand what their audience wants before they articulate it and deliver it seamlessly. That’s not magic. That’s mastery. Anticipation turns a good experience into a magnetic one.

V is for Vibes

Energy is not a soft skill. It’s a strategic one.

A crave-worthy brand doesn’t set the vibe for where people are. It sets it for where they want to be.

The vibe is aspirational on purpose. It reflects the version of your Dreamie who has her shit together, trusts herself, and knows she belongs in the room. Not someday. Now.

You don’t design the experience to meet people at their lowest common denominator. You design it for her highest standard. The woman who values quality. Who notices details. Who expects to be treated well. The one who walks in, takes a breath, and exhales.....yes, this feels right.

The environment does the talking. The tone, the pacing, the details all signal who this is for. And the right people rise to meet it. The goddesses. The gangsters. The mother fkng icons. They don’t need permission. They recognize themselves in it.

That’s the power of a strong vibe. It doesn’t accommodate insecurity. It doesn’t over-explain. It assumes confidence and invites people to step into it. Vibes call the right people forward and let everyone else opt out quietly.

E is for Execution & Excellence

This is where most brands break trust.

Big ideas without flawless delivery create disappointment. Effort shows. Sloppiness shows faster. Nobody craves effort. They crave ease.

Excellence is the invisible work that makes everything feel effortless. It’s mastery, repetition, and obsessive attention to detail. When execution is clean, people feel held. When it’s not, the spell breaks instantly.

Crave-worthy brands make it look easy because they’ve done the hard work behind the scenes.

The real takeaway

A brand people crave isn’t louder.....it’s deeper. It’s not more polished.....it’s more intentional. A crave-worthy brand knows this: people don’t choose with their heads first. They choose with their nervous system. You can’t logic someone into craving you. You earn it by how it feels to be in your world. It’s visceral. It’s the moment something clicks and you think, yes. This. This is for me.

CRAVE is how you design that feeling on purpose.

Curated, Crafted, & Considered. Reimagined. Built on Anticipation. Driven by Vibes. Delivered through Execution & Excellence.

At that point, your brand isn’t competing. It’s being compared to.

Want to Make This Real? Try This in ChatGPT.

Reading about crave-worthy brands is fun. Building one is where it gets interesting.

If you want to actually apply the CRAVE framework to your own brand, here’s a prompt you can drop directly into ChatGPT and use as a working session. No fluff, no brand Mad Libs. This is meant to help you see your brand the way your Dreamies experience it.

Copy and paste this into ChatGPT, then answer honestly. Not aspirationally. Honestly.

The CRAVE Brand Audit Prompt

You are my strategic brand partner. I want you to help me evaluate my brand using the CRAVE framework:
Curated, Crafted, and Considered. Reimagined. Anticipation. Vibes. Execution and Excellence.

First, ask me clarifying questions about my brand, my audience, and how people currently experience working with or buying from me.

Then, walk me through each part of the CRAVE framework one by one.

For each letter, do the following:
– Reflect back what you’re noticing about my brand based on my answers.
– Identify where my brand already feels crave-worthy.
– Call out where things feel underdeveloped, default, or overly functional.
– Ask 2–3 sharp follow-up questions that will help me deepen this part of the experience.

I don’t want generic advice. I want you to focus on moments, details, transitions, and emotional cues.

The goal is to help me design a brand experience that feels intentional, elevated, and unmistakably mine—one people want to return to without needing to be convinced.

Sit with the answers. Don’t rush them. This is the kind of clarity that changes how you make decisions, not just how you write captions.

And if you get halfway through and think, “Oh… this is bigger than I realized,” yeah. That’s the point.