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The Winning Strategy: Attracting and Retaining Top Talent for Your Restaurant – A Four-Step Approach

Embrace the Suck

If a candidate seems promising in terms of personality, complement it with a behavioral assessment to gain a better understanding of their leadership style, communication skills, and response to feedback. Perception is key. No longer should you settle for a mediocre team.

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The Truth About Reality TV and Bar Ownership

Bar and Restaurant Coach

Reality TV has been great for bar consultancy firms like Barmetrix by introducing our services to the world. If nothing else, these popular shows have made people aware that running a successful bar operation is damn HARD. Help for Struggling Bars and Restaurants. provide solutions for featured bar operators.

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EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP WHEN IT SEEMS TO BE IN SHORT SUPPLY

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This is when leadership is most needed. Leadership is always important, but seems to be in critical need when we are in time of crisis. This is when people turn to either those with the title or those with a history of leadership. Leadership, real leadership comes from four actions: * What we hear. What we learn.

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Should You Offer Discounts in Your Bar or Restaurant Operation?

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The subject of whether to offer discounts in the bar and restaurant industry can be a hot topic. Our very own Dave Nitzel is a former Fortune 500 executive, who brings invaluable expertise he gained while in leadership for mega companies like Office Depot, Velocity Express, and Advance Auto Parts. But is that true?

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How Restaurant Owners Can Use Audio Marketing

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Taking a look back at your full marketing strategy and determining if this will expand your brand awareness or thought leadership is the first piece of the puzzle. Another example could be if you are a sports bar in a college town. Just because something is available for you to use, doesn’t mean you should.

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The One Thing All Restaurant Owners Want

Embrace the Suck

Welcome to the world of restaurants and bars. That once, precious thing called time started to evaporate as your restaurant or bar became an unruly création. You will not get the time you crave running your restaurant or bar the way you do now. Step One: Up Your Leadership Impact. Here’s the bad news.

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How a Performance Improvement Plan Could Save You $80K

Bar and Restaurant Coach

Most bar and restaurant operations don’t have Human Resource departments—and some would say that’s a good thing. On occasion, we’re fortunate enough to have people who stay with us for decades, but it’s more common for bars and restaurants to see a high turnover rate. 1 bar manager. 1 bar back. 1 bar manager.