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Finding Your Niche: Why Restaurant Owners Should Consider Daypart Specialization

Modern Restaurant Management

You can think about portion sizes and experiment with specials. They can also commit to coaching Little League or taking college classes at night. It’s not because they don’t see the value of fresh food, it’s because the staff simply doesn’t have the time while running to serve the next rush.

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A CHEF’S HARD DAY’S NIGHT

Culinary Cues

The chef is responsible for hiring, training, coaching, evaluating, and scheduling employees keeping in mind their skill level, personal issues and responsibilities, demands of specific positions in the kitchen (not everyone fits in every role), and an ever-changing influx of customers with their own demands.

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How to improve your restaurant profitability through transformative leadership: Insights from Industry Expert Matt Rolfe

Chowly

Introduction In our recent conversation with Matt Rolfe , an experienced hospitality leadership coach, we explored strategies for improving restaurant profitability through transformative leadership and behavioral coaching. Matt encourages the importance of doing something special in an industry where mediocrity prevails.

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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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Key Strategies to Drive Catering Growth from Second-Generation Bojangles Franchisee

Modern Restaurant Management

With Bojangles, we work alongside our Franchise Business Director, who regularly helps coach and support our team to grow sales and profits, adding to our strong support network. Open Communication Effective communication across all levels of operations is crucial for successful catering growth.

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Why Do So Many Restaurants STILL Suck? It’s Their Culture

Embrace the Suck

When I am coaching a client, I love to sit in the dining room and just listen. I always give the same answer even after 12 years as The Restaurant Coach. This is a special excerpt from my third book coming out Summer 2021 titled: Your Restaurant Culture Sucks! What do you hear? it’s the culture.

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8 Reasons Why Restaurant Workers Quit (And How to Retain Them)

7 Shifts

According to Jim Taylor, a restaurant coach at BenchmarkSixty , restaurants can afford to pay employees more by looking for efficiencies in their productivity. Restaurant coach Monte Silva has an easy method for determining when to use what: Urgent & Important — Call. Look for efficiencies in productivity. Use Manager Log Books.