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From Restaurant GM to Multi-Unit Leader: Why These Promotions Often Fail—and How to Fix It

Modern Restaurant Management

Through these experiences, I’ve identified common challenges encountered when transitioning from single- to multi-unit leadership and what you can do to prevent these issues. Successful GMs excel at hands-on leadership. A great MUL must empower and influence their GMs rather than micromanage them. That’s a problem.

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Operational Empathy Should Be Part of Restaurant Leadership

Modern Restaurant Management

Operational Empathy: Understand the Core One of the most significant ways my background has influenced my strategy as a COO is through operational empathy. This integrated approach ensures that an organization operates as a cohesive unit, driving sustained growth and profitability.

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Growing a Restaurant Strategically – The Keys Are Alignment, Timing and Control

Modern Restaurant Management

Sustainable restaurant expansion requires balancing excitement with patience and perspective. Sustainable restaurant expansion requires balancing excitement with patience and perspective. Small pilots expose weaknesses, risks and required iterations so leadership can determine if initial plans need adjustment, delay or abandonment.

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MRM Talking With: Author, Leadership Coach and Chick-fil-A Veteran Dee Ann Turner

Modern Restaurant Management

The writer, speaker, leadership coach and 33-year veteran of Chick-fil-A, Inc., Allow them to develop leadership skills and show a path to leadership positions. They work as a team toward a common goal and they said the remarkable culture begins with Danny and has filtered through the leadership to the servers.

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5 Things to Consider Before Opening a Restaurant in 2025

The Rail

Modern successful restaurants create their branding to support community and purpose, usually related to local collaborations, sustainability, or cultural celebration. Menu development must balance innovation with efficiency that is, every item must be financially sustainable, practical for cooking, and consistent with your brand character.

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Seven Tips to Help Restaurant Owners Avoid Common Pitfalls and Grow

Modern Restaurant Management

During our 40-plus years in the industry, many issues have come up, and here are some key things I learned as we developed a resilient, consistent mindset and strategies leading to growth and sustainability: 1. That means the owner must lead by example and make sure the managers manage the team with the same positive leadership.

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The New Era of Restaurant Cleaning and Hygiene

Modern Restaurant Management

According to PwC, consumers are most influenced by their trust in a brand, which also includes places where they’re sure of safety and cleanliness. A recent survey found only 14 percent of employees around the world are confident in their CEO’s and management’s leadership regarding return-to-work policies.