Author Archives: Jonathan Munsell

As Founder of Amazing Brands, a North Carolina company, with two restaurant brands and a catering company, Jonathan Munsell works with current and aspiring restaurant owners specializing in restaurant startup and growth. Jonathan is also a professional speaker conducting national seminars focusing on restaurant startup, operations, marketing and finance. Download a free report to learn "How to Turn Any Restaurant Into A Hugely Successful Profit Machine" at http://www.RestaurantSuccessMonthly.com.

Management Tools

Management 5 Mechanics of Management Scheduling in our System.doc Customer Relations/ Legal Tools/ Pre Meal Sheet.xls Champions – Segregation of Management Duties.doc Offer Letter Master For Managing Partner with Signature line.doc

Human Resource Tools

Human Resource Tool Kit Application AB.xls Attendance Detail.xls Basics Evaluations by position.xls Company Vehicle Policy AB.doc Contractor Invoice.pdf Management Training schedule.xls Managment Interview Format.doc LS LS LS

Quick Start Audio 3 – Operations

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What do you need in place to make the biggest financial impact on your restaurant?

Quick Start Audio 6 Marketing – ONLINE

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How to use your Online Presence to catapult your brick & mortar Restaurant Business.

Quick Start Audio 5 – Marketing – Offline PART 2

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Marketing – OFFLINE PART 2

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Quick Start Audio 5 MARKETING – OFFLINE DISC 2

Quick Start Audio 4 – Marketing – Offline PART 1

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Where to start and exactly what to do to achieve huge increases in sales and profit.

Learning Modules

To get you started we have loaded some items for you to start with Click the icon beside the section you wish to access…   Goals, Reality, Opportunity,Way Forward Listen to our 6 part Quick Start Audio Series

Quick Start Audio 2 – Human Resources

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HR – Systems for Hiring and Maintaining the Best Employees and Managers

Quick Start Audio 1 – Business Planning and Strategic Planning

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Audio 1 Planning and Hitting the Ground Running. Business Planning and Strategic Planning

Quick Start Audio – Introduction

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Quick Start Audio Series included with your registration and membership purchase.:

Restaurant Design Secrets Revealed

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Jonathan Interviews Famous Restaurant Designer Ken Barnes on what makes a Great Restaurant.  You can see some of Ken’s Amazing Work at www Inner Circle Members and above can download audios to your MP3 or Ipod Right Click Here : Restaurant Design Secrets Revealed

How To Insure You Have The Best Restaurant Supply, Parts and Equipment Company For Your Start-up and Existing Restaurant

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Opening and maintaining a restaurant is always a challenge.  This conversation will help you on your way to building a success from the start. We even talk about what to look for in an equipment vendor.

How To Keep Your Restaurant Operating at Peak Performance 24/7 Even If You Are Not There ? Mystery Shopper Program.

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Brian and Jonathan talk through all the details to effectively set up your own Mystery Shopper Program.  Including instore mystery shops, Bar Control Shops, Take Out and Catering Shops Mystery Shopper Program

How To Successfully Use Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, And Other Online Social Media For Practical, Profitable Purposes

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Jonathan Interviews Cynthia Richards, Social Media Marketing Expert! Cynthia recently presented at the Restaurant & Catering Super Conference and was a smash hit, I could not resist the opportunity to share her insight with all of you!

Constantly Study & Learn Marketing?

Learn all that you can about marketing. Read everything that I send you several times. Each time you do, you’ll discover something that you missed the previous time. You don’t want to miss a major point!

Sticky Fingers – Spotting the Fingerprints of Bartender Theft

If you’re waiting for a rise in your pour cost to alert you to a potential bartender theft problem, you may be out of luck To find telltale signs of theft, scrutinize sales Bar productivity, as it’s called, is calculated by dividing the bartender’s gross sales by the number of hours he or she worked

The Death of the Independent Restaurant…is it true?

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I heard twice in one day “The Death of The Independent Restaurant” and it frosted me so when my time came to do a monthly call I couldn’t help but jump on the opportunity to do some research and prove that independents are more abundant than chains.  I also went through a ton of other data supporting the fact that we are alive and well… The Death of the Independent Restaurant…is it true?

Track, Measure & Post Employee Performance

Restaurant owners usually don’t know how well their employees are doing. They might be able to see each person’s sales. That’s pretty good, but it’s not good enough.

Business Builder Tip: Five Ways to Encourage Employee Excellence

Managing employees can be a challenge You’ve undoubtedly heard many horror stories about late, rude, or lazy employees Here are some ideas for encouraging employee excellence: 1- Build a culture of productivity

Business Builder Tip: Who to Hire and When to Fire.

Who to Hire and When to Fire. Whether you employ one person, or fifty, choosing the right employees can be a challenge Well, the “secret” to hiring the right employee is to give equal weight to five different factors: Experience You must keep only the best employees for your business

How to bootstrap a startup catering business?

How to bootstrap a startup catering business? Are you established or are you thinking of starting up? Do you have existing clients? Start with one client (in big companies we look at who the best clients are)

Restaurants to gain pricing power in 2011

Analyst expects chains to pass menu price increases to consumers As commodity prices rose through 2010, restaurant operators kept one eye on increasing costs and the other on the tight grip that recession-battered consumers kept on their wallets Texas Roadhouse was testing a menu price hike of about 2 percent in 25 of its casual-dining restaurants, he said

Be Careful What You Say In Front of Your Guests

by Jonathan Munsell Recently I was on a consulting project in Texas and was flying when I noticed something that kind of rubbed me the wrong way.  It was a couple seasoned flight attendants carrying on like there was not over 100 people looking right at them.  They were talking about how they were running out of this and the previous crew didn’t do this or that.

House approves The Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010 – What does it mean to you?

House approves small business bill The Small Business Jobs and Credit Act of 2010, which includes provisions that proponents say would provide restaurants and other small businesses with tax relief while increasing access to capital, was approved Thursday in the House by a vote of 237 to 187.

More restaurants testing delivery service

Johnny Rockets franchisee latest to join the delivery pack The Johnny Rockets operator joins several others, from fast-casual players to frozen yogurt chains, that are exploring delivery service as a way to build sales and offer convenience to customers. Some U

What the Senate’s small-business bill means for restaurants

The National Restaurant Association is voicing support for the legislation, saying that it encompasses several pro-business initiatives that would help operators. NRA puts support behind small-business bill Legislation would provide relief to restaurants, group says The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, which was introduced earlier this summer by Sens

Write An Effective Newsletter

Many companies produce newsletters I not only write a newsletter for my restaurant guests but I also go out of the way to produce a newsletter directed specifically for catering Personalize your newsletter- there are hundreds of newsletters circulating on the Internet and in the mail

Building a better wine list

Building a better wine list Geography-focused wine lists should contain maps Varietal-focused wine lists should come with descriptors of the grapes Descriptive wine lists should be limited to flavors and textures

How Just One Social Media Marketing Group Buying Site Made Me $8052.25 in One Day (Which One Was It? – Groupon, Twongo & LivingSocial)

(Not a member Join today!) Questioning if you should join???? I guarantee it! Jonathan Munsell Founder & Creator Restaurant Success Monthly [private_Inner Circle][private_Top Tier Coaching] [private_Super Performers]

The 18 Phases Of Christmas Marketing & Email Messaging

By the end of August more than 8% of major online retailers will have already mentioned the holidays in their email campaigns Holiday messaging goes through 18 phases: 1 Secondary Holiday Messaging Primary Holiday Messaging 8