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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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
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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The Real Reason You’re Burned Out as a Restaurant Owner
If you’re dealing with restaurant owner burnout, it’s probably not because of the long hours. After coaching independent restaurant owners for years, I can tell you the real issue goes much deeper.
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Why Your Restaurant Staff Doesn’t Care (And What To Do About It)
While this might not be easy to hear, it’s important: your restaurant staff don’t care because, somewhere along the way, they were trained not to. Let's fix it!
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Why Waiting To Build Systems Is Keeping Your Restaurant Stuck
In this episode of “The Restaurant Prosperity Formula,” restaurant owners will learn why waiting to build systems costs more than they realize.
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