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

Embrace the Suck

Relying on serendipity for star performers to discover us is a wasted opportunity. 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. These queries reveal their values and attitudes.

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The Top 10 Things Learned from Working with 1000+ Restaurants

Embrace the Suck

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! Getting a coach to help you break bad habits and install new ones (hint, hint).

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CHEFS: BUILD A TEAM – KEEP A TEAM

Culinary Cues

Building pride in team is a foundational requirement of leadership and coaching. This can be an incentive program that engages the employees in helping the restaurant reach its goals through efficiency, waste reduction, and a unified approach towards being entrepreneurial. BUILD PRIDE. EMPATHETIC SCHEDULING.

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Enough Yelling and Screaming: Restaurants Need Kindness in the Kitchen

Xtra Chef

Getting people to stay longer and perform at optimal levels starts with leadership — and chefs have the ability to foster collaborative, encouraging work environments. In football, legendary coaches have what they call a “coaching tree.” Outside of the military, there’s no job where yelling and screaming is expected.

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Are Your Running Your Restaurant Or Is It Running You?

The Restaurant Coach University

The common thread in this bad recipe is lack of vision and poor leadership. When the call for restaurant coaching comes in, people are asked what the issues might be. If coaching could just fix them then, they would have the restaurant they wanted. Don’t waste another day not being responsible for how it is run.

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The Best Kept Secret of Restaurant Success

Embrace the Suck

I tell you, It was the best thing next to getting a business coach back in 2008 that I have done to grow not only myself but my business as well. ????. 14) Expand Your Leadership Skills. Aim for outstanding because anything less is a waste of your potential. Looking back, I wish I had joined that group ten years earlier!

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Are You Running Your Restaurant or Is It Running You?

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Or do you feel like there is a lack of vision and poor leadership that’s contributing to inconsistent food and unhappy diners? Or is there a lack of vision and poor leadership that’s making the food inconsistent and the guests unlikely to make a return visit? The best team in the world will get nowhere without quality leadership.