Tag Archive: restaurant operations

How To Get More Done In Your Restaurant

Restaurant Success System and Restaurant Success Monthly provide these videos to help accelerate your Restaurant Success.  The videos are usually centered on Restaurant Operations, Restaurant Finance, Restaurant Marketing & Promotions or the Restaurant Management Tools and Restaurant Systems necessary to achieve higher sales and grow your restaurant or Catering profits by leaps and bounds

How to Market Restaurant Specialty Items for the Holidays

A question was posed by one of our Restaurant Success Monthly Members, Buddy Guilbeau: Do you have any ideas on how to increase my corporate hams sales for the holidays?  How about ideas on advertising my hams for the holidays? My response: The low cost / no cost restaurant marketing tactic is always “4 Walls Marketing”

Restaurant Success Story: Creative Compensation In Your Restaurant

I was just reading a reading a great compensation article from Greg McGuire and the The Back Burner Blog and wanted to add in my two cents from a member I recently spoke with. The Back Story One of my coaching members was looking to reduce payroll.  He had done a lot this year to increase sales and manage costs

Immediately Effective Cost Control Tips & Tactics – 121-130

This is the 14th post in a number of posts I will be providing to offer cost effective tips and ideas for your restaurant biz. Included Categories: 1. Food Costs and Kitchen Management 2. Bar, Cellar and Beverages 3. Packaging, Paper and Consumables 4. Cleaning Costs 5. Labor Costs 6. General & Administrative 7. Utilities…

Live Meetings are a WASTE OF TIME

I recently got a call from one of my people, you know the one…”It’s so & so, call me back.”  No detail information – it is a Time Suck Death Trap waiting to happen. Here is how I handled it; you might want to take note.  This little tidbit could save you about 10 productive hours in a week – or open up an entire day to play golf or spend time with your family.

Goal Setting – How To Set Goals That Create Opportunities You Never Imagined

Setting goals can create opportunities you never imagined and that seemed far out of reach. First step is to write goals down Benefits of writing down goals You get clear on how to make your goals happen

Goal Setting: The Problems with Setting Goals

I am going to jump right in it today – First and foremost most people take their Goals for granted.  They don’t do it seriously and they don’t do it consistently.  They do it once a year and they do it at New Years.  They run into the New Year’s syndrome; they set a goal and they don’t even look at it until a year later and they go, “Uht Oh, I screwed up,” and they set a new one. Goal setting problems