The Blog
Clarity in writing.
Field notes from twenty-plus years of coaching independent restaurant owners. What works. What doesn’t. What the noise is hiding.
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The Real Reason Restaurant Owners Don’t Use Free Resources
Collecting resources for restaurants without ever implementing them isn’t leadership. It’s digital hoarding with better intentions. You need implementation.
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Why Restaurant Owners Wait Until It Hurts to Change
This episode of “The Restaurant Prosperity Formula” podcast is for restaurant owners who have said, “I know, I know, I need to fix that” and then didn’t.
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Why Your Restaurant Isn’t Growing (Even When Sales Are Up)
If your restaurant is doing great sales but you’re still not making money, you don’t have a sales problem. You have a control problem. Learn what I mean in this video.
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Why Catering Doesn’t Grow Most Restaurant Revenue
Catering can be a great revenue stream for your restaurant, but only when the restaurant has the systems, margin, staffing and production flow to support it.
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How to Get People to Do the Work in Your Restaurant
This episode of “The Restaurant Prosperity Formula” podcast, teaches restaurant owners how to get their to actually do the work.
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Why Your Restaurant Food Cost Is Always Wrong
If your restaurant food cost seems to change every time you calculate it, you may not have a food cost problem at all. Instead, you likely have a process problem.
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Why Your Food Distributor Is Costing You More Than You Think
Restaurant owners: if you’re not actively managing your relationship, your food distributor may quietly be driving up your restaurant food cost without you even realizing it.
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Why Restaurant Systems Fail After You Create Them Ep 151
Most restaurant owners don’t struggle because they lack systems. They struggle because the systems they worked hard to create slowly fall apart after rollout. In this episode of The Restaurant Prosperity Formula Podcast, I dig into the real reason restaurant systems fail and why creating a checklist, tracker or process is only the beginning.
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Why Customers Aren’t Coming Back to Your Restaurant
If your restaurant customers aren’t coming back, the problem probably isn’t your food. More often than not, it’s the experience you’re delivering.
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Why Your Restaurant Still Needs You for Everything
This episode of “The Restaurant Prosperity Formula” podcast, teaches restaurant owners how to stop being the system that holds the restaurant together.
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