#144: Some Great Advice for Restaurant Owners Who Want to Lead
February 18, 2026 by David Scott Peters
You can’t win by trying to fix everything in your restaurant at once. You have to develop a plan, and you have to have patience. To offer you, a restaurant owner, some ways to go about it, I sat down with Lyn Askin, a certified EOS Implementer.
In this episode of “The Restaurant Prosperity Formula” podcast, we dig into what it really takes to build a restaurant business that runs with clarity, discipline and consistency instead of chaos.
We talk through the practical framework behind the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) and the book “Traction,” and why it resonates so strongly with restaurant owners who feel stuck doing everything themselves.
When you listen, you can expect to learn what EOS looks like in the real world, how it creates accountability without drama, how leadership teams get aligned around a shared vision and how operators turn big goals into focused 90-day execution that actually sticks.
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