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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My Restaurant App Advice for Restaurant Owners
There are a lot of restaurant apps out there right now. As a one-time creator of software, I know a thing or two about restaurant apps. This tip is about which app you should start with and the answer might surprise you.
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Restaurant Management System: A Basic Approach for Restaurant Health
When using restaurant management systems, if you use the wrong numbers, you'll get bad results. How would you like to know a basic approach to assess your restaurant health and have the right numbers at your fingertips? This tips gives you just that.
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Restaurant Owners: There Is No Going Back to Normal
In this episode of my podcast, The Restaurant Prosperity Formula, I am talking about the lessons we've learned as an industry and the outlook for our industry, plus a short action plan so you can make the best of the rest of 2021 and what 2022 will bring.
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Why Menu Engineering Is Not the Answer
Menu engineering is absolutely awesome. You can reduce your food cost by three to seven points when done correctly the first time you use it. Right now, that probably seems like exactly what you need. But let me caution you, menu engineering is not your secret weapon to lowering your food cost. Before you can…
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Why the Restaurant Expo is Critical to Your Kitchen
Restaurant owners and general managers, I want to show you how you can avoid chaos and tensions between FOH and BOH all together with the restaurant expo. I’ll take you through 11 traits of a great expo and how they affect your restaurant.
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How to Find and Keep Restaurant Employees
Finding and keeping restaurant employees is a major challenge in just about every restaurant in the United States right now. Let's talk about what you can do in your restaurant to solve this problem for yourself.
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Restaurant Accounting to Know to Run a Successful Restaurant
In episode 22 of my podcast, The Restaurant Prosperity Formula, Anne Gannon, CPA of The Largo Group, and I offer our insight and experience on what the most successful restaurant owners we work with know about their restaurant’s numbers.
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The 5 Most Important Positions in a Restaurant
Do you ever wonder what the most important positions are in your restaurant? I want to share with you my take on what I see as the top five positions in a restaurant.
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You Know You’re An Entrepreneur When…
Let’s have a little fun and play a game I like to call, “You Know You're an Entrepreneur When…” Restaurant owners are definitely living that entrepreneur life, so join me and play along so you can learn to live the benefits of being an entrepreneur.
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What a Restaurant Coach Should Do
A coach teaches you the systems and the skillsets to become the leader that your restaurant needs. You want to push yourself, push your business and get to where you have restaurant prosperity and freedom. As a restaurant coach, that's exactly what I help you do.
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