A common question I get from restaurant owners is, “Why is my actual food cost so high and why is it so much more than my ideal food cost?” The second part of that question is what to do if your actual food cost is running much higher than your ideal food cost. These are age-old...
Restaurant marketing is the first thing most restaurant owners think of when they want to increase restaurant sales, and I’m the first to tell you I’m not a restaurant marketer. But I can show you an example of how to increase restaurant sales by $250,000 in one year without...
Restaurant owners often turn to marketing as the solution to their biggest challenges, not realizing that a lot of times their marketing is creating more challenges. Since my expertise is on restaurant operations and coaching restaurant owners how to become the leaders their restaurants need, I...
Fear is an extremely powerful thing. It is the kryptonite to any entrepreneur, ultimately stopping you dead in your tracks. In the last two years, many restaurant owners have succumbed to fear because persisting through the unknown was too overwhelming.
In early March of 2022, during my Shoot the...
In my almost 20 years of being a restaurant coach, I have learned what a restaurant owner's most important challenges are, how to fix them and how to help them make their restaurant business dreams come true. How do I do it? Restaurant owners – you – have all the power. I simply...
As a restaurant owner, your success hinges on you having a management team in place that knows what their job is, how to do it, how well it should be done and, most importantly, by when. This requires you to lead your management team, cultivate, coach and correct your management team, and hold...
While the last couple of years have made it difficult to focus on developing a great employee training system in your restaurant, I want to spend this episode diving into why training is so important to the success of your business. To do that, I’ve invited Joe Erickson to be my guest for...
All too often restaurant owners operate their businesses on an island. While there is a whole world out there of innovation, best practices and support, restaurant owners often find themselves feeling alone, isolated and the only one who suffers from the constant challenges. That’s the life...
Restaurant technology is a hard topic, especially when it comes to deciding how restaurant technology can benefit your business specifically. My guest today is the only person I can think of who can do it justice and make it clear. Jeremy Julian is the host and producer of The Restaurant...
I don’t need to tell you about the labor crisis in the restaurant and hospitality industry. You’re living it day in and day out, running short-staffed or running with less-than-ideal employees. In fact, Restaurant Business reported in an online article entitled “Restaurant...
Today's podcast centers around restaurant development and technology. Now I want to tell you about our guest today, Anthony Amunategui, founder of CDO Group, an industry leader in providing a full range of outstanding construction, development and project management services. Anthony and CDO...
Every week I host a coaching call for a group of restaurant owners who are part of my premium coaching program, Restaurant Transformation Intensive. This is a group of restaurant owners who understand the importance of being the leader their restaurant needs. They understand the importance of...