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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Make More Money in your Restaurant Starting Today
If you want to make more money in your restaurant, it starts today. If you take my tips to heart, you will get to a point where you can actually leave your restaurant and know things are being done your way. You’ll have a management team you can trust. You will make the money you…
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Top 3 Benefits of Using Restaurant Checklists
Restaurant checklists are a critical system to running a successful restaurant. Now let’s talk about how you make restaurant checklist work for you.
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How Inventory Management Software Helps Cut Food Cost
If you truly want to attack your food cost, you have to have restaurant inventory software today. With software you can start doing inventories in under an hour, as long as it’s set up properly. That means when you see a problem in your kitchen, you can make a change.
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How to Increase Restaurant Sales
Cutting costs is a first step in getting your food and labor costs in line, but you also want to increase restaurant sales. Once you have the right systems in place, every dollar above breakeven makes you 30 to 40 cents on every single dollar. How do you increase restaurant sales?
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What Does a Restaurant Coach Do?
If you’re searching for a restaurant coach, I want to help you decide if you need one and what you should expect a restaurant coach to do for you in your restaurant.
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Restaurant Portion Controls and Why They’re So Important
Do you ever wonder why it's so important to have portion controls in your restaurant? Eyeballing it seems more efficient, doesn’t it? Well, if you’re not using portion controls in your restaurant kitchen, it’s having a big impact on your food cost.
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How to Price Restaurant Specials
If you’ve ever wondered how to set prices for restaurant specials, I want to teach the science behind it. Follow these steps to magically make the money you deserve on your restaurant specials.
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Systems to Have When Running a Restaurant
I was thinking about how to answer the question, "What does it take to be successful in the restaurant business?" If you want to be successful running a restaurant, you should know three key things.
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New Book for Restaurant Owners
I wrote a book for restaurant owners. It's called Restaurant Prosperity Formula: What Successful Restaurateurs Do. It's a mix of why I do what I do, how I got here, and how what I know can help you establish a successful restaurant that looks like the dream you've always had for it.
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3 Must Have Financial Reports for Restaurants
Here's the deal: that which we measure improves and the only way to improve is to have measurements in the first place, which are in your restaurant financial reports. There are three financial reports that are a must have to give you every opportunity to make the money you deserve.
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