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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Restaurant Checklist to Manage Managers – Podcast Episode 4
Your restaurant checklist to manage managers – really, many checklists – is the principle foundation of a strong management team. Learn more about this principle foundation: restaurant checklists.
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Restaurant Management Tips for When to Fire a Manager
A common question is how do I fire a restaurant manager? Read this to learn to the key to knowing when it's time to pull the trigger and fire a manager.
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Cash Flow Budget for Restaurants in COVID
Going forward, as states and cities open up with varying restrictions, it’s very important for a restaurant owner to have a 12-week cash flow budget. Unlike an annual budget where you are looking to create a plan to be profitable, your 12-week budget is all about survival. Here’s the process.
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Restaurant Management Tips for a Top Notch Team
Are you looking for restaurant management tips and tools for a great team? You're in the right place because if you're dying to have a great management team that gets things done your way. Get six restaurant management tips and tools for a top notch team.
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Catering Ideas for Restaurants to Survive COVID with Sandy Korem
Let’s talk catering ideas for restaurants to survive COVID in episode three of The Restaurant Prosperity Formula podcast with Sandy Korem. If you’re a restaurant owner or caterer and want to learn an important lesson about diversifying your revenue, especially after COVID-19.
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Restaurant Managers Are Accountable to Your Culture
If you’re wondering, how do I hold my management team accountable? Let’s instead talk about why holding your restaurant management team accountable is not an option but a requirement.
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Restaurant Solutions for Great Guest Service with Darren Denington
To achieve restaurant prosperity, you have to follow a very specific formula made up of leadership, systems, training, accountability and taking action. Today I’m excited to talk to a good friend of mine and fellow restaurant systems supporter.
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Restaurant Solutions for Independent Restaurants to Make Money
The Restaurant Prosperity Formula Podcast Episode 1: The common things the most successful restaurant owners do on a daily basis to achieve their success.
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Restaurant Solutions to Lower Food Cost 2-3 Points
Are you looking for a proven restaurant solutions lower your food cost? I bet you are, because now food costs are through the roof with COVID-19. I have a set of three restaurant solutions that can cut your food cost 2-3 percent overnight.
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Restaurant Solutions to Lower and Control Labor Cost
Controlling labor is always a problem, whether you’re in a pandemic or not. That’s why I'm going to teach you the seven must-do solutions to control labor cost.
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