Culinary Cues

JULY 15, 2024

This is a disease that lies dormant in many people just waiting to take over their every being if those in positions of leadership allow it to. It is apparent in the classroom, the local grocery store, your doctor’s office, the gym where you work out, car dealerships, airports, subways, hotels, and yes – restaurants.

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Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The importance of (and need for) managers’ frontline leadership spans both back-of-house and front-of-house, extending from the kitchen when cooks need help to the dining room handling guests’ needs. For managers, empathy and soft skills are key to helping problem-solve solutions to whatever situation arises.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 25, 2023

Many restaurateurs dream of growing into multiple locations, but it takes a lot of capital investment to get there. At my restaurant development and investment firm Full Course, we work with emerging brands to develop leadership, optimize business practices and ultimately provide financial investment for expansion.

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Point of Sale Coaching Social Media Take-out 519

Culinary Cues

JANUARY 23, 2023

Some of us know that winning takes loads of hard work, conditioning, and focus, while others hope they can win without the effort. Reaching for that carrot may be enough to keep you going, reaching that carrot will help to fulfill you, and pushing the carrot even further out will either inspire or frustrate you. That NEVER works!

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Coaching Sports Point of Sale Take-out 406

Modern Restaurant Management

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

To further emphasize creativity in the kitchen, Ocean Prime encouraged its associates to compose a seasonal pairing menu through an immersive leadership development program. ” To market the menu, managers put together a written piece and video of what they got out of it.

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Embrace the Suck

MARCH 11, 2019

I was very honored to be interviewed by Tony Chapman at the recent Restaurants Canada Leadership Conference in Toronto. Tony: With me is Donald Burns, The Restaurant Coach™, named one of The Top 50 Restaurant Experts to Follow and one of 23 Inspiring Hospitality Experts to Follow on Twitter. Where you stand out in the market.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 13, 2021

What does it take to be a successful franchisee? Greenberg started his career as a professional speaker and leadership coach. Looking for a second stream of income and a “lab” to try out concepts, he ventured into the franchise world. For the next 10 years, he ran Edible Arrangements stores.

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Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 3, 2024

So, here are the 21 rules that, from my experience as a chef, should apply: [] LISTEN MORE, TALK LESS The first key to great leadership is to listen to others first. Take a step back and give them their due; you are part of a team. [] BE THE EXAMPLE How do you want your employees to act, represent, perform, and connect?

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Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Pointing out what an employee does incorrectly can be positive if it is reinforced with training to correct the problem. Employees are typically not opposed to being measured – they simply want to know what is expected and how that measurement will take place. The chef must also seek out those “teaching moments” whenever they arise.

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Goliath Consulting

JULY 28, 2020

Social distancing has radically changed the way restaurants work, causing a spike in delivery and take-out orders, and employees are taking on different responsibilities to fit these new roles in the workplace (2). Situational Leadership. A flexible leadership style is crucial in this current environment.

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Embrace the Suck

JANUARY 13, 2021

Coming out in late February 2021. You’ve heard it said to you by every consultant out there.You need to work ON your restaurant and not IN your restaurant. Yet, here you are still slugging it out every single day doing battle on the front line. I have seen the promised land for myself when I owned two restaurants.

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Coaching Back of House Front of House Take-out 360

Embrace the Suck

JUNE 18, 2021

Working on the right things, in the right order, what to focus on now, and what to hold off until later, can mean the difference between success and burn out. 60% of restaurants don’t make it past their first year and 80% go out of business within five years. THE HARSH REALITY. The statistics aren’t pretty. Chaos in action.

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Leadership Small Business Marketing Coaching 354

Embrace the Suck

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

I keep detailed coaching notes from every client I have had over the past 11 years as The Restaurant Coach™ Some of those stories make it into my books, speaking gigs, podcasts, or just as a solid warning to new clients about what not to do! I know the labor pool is shrinking and it’s hard to find people out there.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 3, 2024

You were either part of this or feeling left out because you weren’t. Can you tough it out? We even boast an informal initiation period where new employees are given conflicting directions, inaccurate details on the work to be done, or even sent on wild goose-chases just to embarrass them and see if they can take it.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

” At 3,900-square-feet, the build out of AQUAlounge is projected at $5 million, and construction is scheduled to begin in February of 2020. In addition, the proceeds from the evening benefited Action Against Hunger, a global humanitarian organization that takes decisive action against the causes and effects of hunger.As

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 10, 2020

We are taking other precautions and provide a sanitary training session for our tenants and clear communication with our tenants via our digital property management system (PMS). ” Among the actions the brand is taking: Clear, concise communication with f&b tenants. We are trying to be responsible and calm.”

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Embrace the Suck

MARCH 27, 2020

Times like these bring out the best in some people and the worst in others (a shout out to all the toilet paper hoarders out there). It was a bunch of mercenaries that only looked out for their own survival. They had already made some big changes in their leadership team already. There was a lot of drama.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 16, 2024

” For restaurant owners, we’ll take creative license with the quote to say, “A man who owns a restaurant should be prepared to exit at any time.” Those in the restaurant business must have a written plan detailing who takes over the operations if an owner is no longer in the role.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 27, 2024

Greenberg is an internationally recognized speaker, author and coach with franchise clients that include McDonalds, Great Clips, GNC, RE/MAX, Smoothie King, Global Franchise Group and many more. What do you hope readers take away from the book? What do you hope readers take away from the book? To feel/look important?

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Embrace the Suck

MAY 24, 2023

It's time to dust off your note-taking skills because we're diving into a four-step game plan to draw the crème de la crème to your restaurant, starting immediately. Now, let's discuss our current predicament and find a way out. Instead, we should be on the offense, taking our recruitment strategy to the talent pool.

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Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The stores were empty, and restaurant service staff were staring out windows from the vantage of unfilled seats. The look of the service staff, cooks on the back loading docks grabbing a smoke break, salesclerks with arms folded, starring out shop windows, and nervous shop owners checking their bank accounts on cellphones was disconcerting.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 26, 2020

Let’s put on our restaurant hat and take responsibility for doing what is right for both the health and wellbeing of our families, staff, and customers, and help in bring our communities out of the deepest economic hole since the Great Depression. So the question is – where is the leadership in building such a plan?

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Kitchen Safety Food Safety Leadership Front of House 275

Embrace the Suck

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Only 5 out of 100 restaurants will celebrate their 10-year anniversary. Hire a business coach (okay that was a little self-promotion…LOL). Take a hard look at the following mistakes and give yourself a little reality check. If you’re guilty, just admit it and then take conscious action to change it.

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Embrace the Suck

JANUARY 24, 2022

Times like these bring out the best in some people and the worst in others. Some have added take-out and delivery. We all have had to take a hard look at our business models (even me) and asked what can I do now that the world has been forever changed. So let's talk about those habits. There was a lot of drama.

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Cash Management Leadership Take-out Coaching 259

Embrace the Suck

MARCH 22, 2019

You might be suffering from Leadership Delusion. Look up the definition of what leadership is and it’s a little vague: The action of leading a group of people or an organization. That being said it seems that leadership is classified as a noun , when in reality it should be a verb. Leadership is an act.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 28, 2021

. “While we know there is a pent-up demand for a return to dining in restaurants, we anticipate that our delivery and takeout business is here to stay as consumer needs continue to shift and they seek out different ways to experience IHOP favorites. Wienerschnitzel Signs New Deals.

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7 Shifts

JULY 12, 2023

She joined us on The Pre-Shift Podcast to discuss her philosophy on managing a team, including how she coaches managers. I kind of did it out of a self-serving type of thing where I was like, I never see him. At that time he was owning Poppy + Rose along with his other business partners until I came along and bought them out.

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EATER

MAY 24, 2021

Joey Pham, who is now a baker and spiritual coach at their own business Flavor Supreme , started working at Fat Rice in 2014 as a line cook and says they were eventually driven away by Conlon’s bullying. “I But in June, Pham began speaking out against Fat Rice on social media. “I It felt like a cop-out,” Botticelli said.

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Culinary Cues

JUNE 11, 2021

Words that are well thought out, from our memory and filtered through the heart can bridge any gap that might exist between people. Let’s work together to figure out how to make it better.” I remember many examples in my own past as a cook where things just seemed to get out of hand.

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Coaching Leadership Café Pricing 448

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 22, 2021

” Using modular construction for restaurant development saves 10-15 percent overall, and allows for consistency and efficiency with the building process taking approximately five weeks to complete. 2021 will be big for us as we branch out of California and make our entrance into the Midwest and East Coast.” Army Officer.

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EATER

MAY 25, 2023

It might surprise people that part of my job takes place in the farm. We are taking a list of sensory attributes and evaluating products against it; we think about aroma, texture, nasal pungency, and more. What was the biggest challenge you faced when you were starting out in the industry? It’s a very fun part of my job.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JULY 30, 2021

When life presents unexpected expenses, such as urgent car or home repairs, an emergency fund can help keep families afloat, and prevent them from taking on debt or missing payments. In addition to a bold brand and innovative menu with unique takes on Indian Street Food, Curry Up Now offers franchisees industry-leading unit economics.

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Embrace the Suck

JUNE 8, 2019

Day in and day out you are dedicated to the grind. You breathe in stress and breathe out hospitality. You don’t ever get to capture it, and it just seems to be always slightly out of reach. Step One: Up Your Leadership Impact. Time to pull up your big boy (or girl) leadership pants and get down to business.

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Leadership Hiring Bar Restaurant Law 221

Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 13, 2020

In partnership with Matt Ailey, Founder of GenRock Capital Management, Matt Slaine, CEO of Quality Restaurant Group and Chris Grooms, Vice President of Quality Fresca, the restaurant group plans to roll out the updated brand design for the restaurants in the next 12-18 months. Pizza Inn Incentive Program. ” Pi Pizzeria Looks to Grow.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 17, 2020

For those who may not want to be in a manager role, the brand is introducing "Makers," a program for restaurant team members who want to elevate their passion for the brand and want leadership experience. Paris Baquette's Leadership Changes. and PepsiCo, Inc.

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7 Shifts

MARCH 29, 2023

He started out at Darden Restaurants and has worked in executive leadership roles at Del Frisco's, Michael Mina and Birdcall before joining bartaco in 2021. As those changes were taking place and as the restaurant industry shifted, Valletta found himself drawn to what the team at bartaco was doing. I think that's the challenge.

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Front of House Back of House Tip Distribution Coaching 195

Embrace the Suck

MAY 5, 2019

Getting people to follow the rules is a lot like herding cats, and if you have been in leadership for any time (or read my previous post), you know that is one tough job. Sure, a few will comply out of fear. Anything higher than that, and you need to take a hard look at your culture. They inspire people to take a stand.

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