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Your Life and Restaurant — 125 episodes

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What Busy Holidays Reveal About Your Restaurant

2

When the Owner Is the Bottleneck

3

Why I Track Everything: How Measurement Creates Calm and Clarity

4

The Restaurant Bottleneck Nobody Talks About: The Window

5

Growing Into the Business: The Psychology of the First and Second Generation

6

When Servers Leave: It's not always a problem

7

This is the Part No One Warns You About

8

Pay the Price

9

Raising Prices Without Losing Customers: The Art & Science of Restaurant Pricing

10

The Gen2 Test: Why Most Families Don't Survive the Handoff

11

The Power of Trying (and Failing) with Ideas

12

How to Build a Restaurant So People Don't Quit

13

What I'd Do Differently If I Opened Today Part 2

14

What I'd Do Differently If I Opened Today

15

Get More Nature In Your Life

16

AI In the Restaurant World Pt. 2

17

AI in the Restaurant World

18

Humility in Hospitality

19

The Nobility of Making a Profit in the Restaurant World

20

LEARN Damage Control

21

Do you want to have more Free Time?

22

Don't Get Overrun

23

Don't Be a Drifter Be Intentional with Your Life

24

Don't be Afraid, Make Mistakes

25

Emotional Salary

26

The Genesis of This Podcast

27

Economies of Scale

28

Don't fall prey to the victim mentality. Take 100% ownership.

29

Dealing with the dreaded Health Inspection

30

Arrogance comes before the fall

31

Costing out Your Menu

32

Put in Your Big Rocks for 2025

33

Goals and The Wheel Of Life

34

Do you like your Restaurant Culture?

35

Staying Zen in the Chaotic Restaurant World

36

Uphold Your Standards

37

Staffing Part 2: Disciplining and Firing

38

Staffing Part 1

39

5 Minute Game Changing Tool

40

Stand Out! Create a Signature Dish

41

Food Cost, Storage and Inventory

42

3 Additional Elements to Elevate your Service and Hospitality

43

One extra ounce is Costing you a lot of Money $$$$

44

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

45

3 Keys to Difficult Conversations

46

#1 Thing You Need to Grow to Multiple Locations

47

Job Descriptions; Another Tool in your Toolbox

48

$20 an hour minimum wage?

49

2 Non-Negotiables

50

Be clear, your employees want to know; How I'm I winning?

51

Take a Walk in Your Customer's Shoes

52

Decide what is best for the Restaurant first

53

Don't sit on the sidelines, DECIDE and take ACTION

54

Top Episodes for 2023

55

Have a Health Goal in 2024

56

80/20 Rule for Restaurants

57

The Power of Books

58

Brutally Honest

59

Spooky Tales

60

Why you need an Employee Handbook ASAP

61

Don't Fear Exit Interviews

62

Please Don't Take Things Personal

63

Prime Costs of a Restaurant

64

If you do business like yesterday you will not be in business tomorrow

65

Love Thy Customer

66

The only PDF you will need in your life

67

Do your words match your actions?

68

The Power Of Vision

69

The Cocktail for Unhappiness

70

Delegation is Power

71

Just Serve.

72

Do Raindrops keep falling on your head? ☔️

73

Join an Organization and Invest in yourself

74

This Valentine's Day improve your Marriage and Relationship

75

How many times are you eating alone?

76

Leaders are Readers

77

Rate your Mental Health; Let's improve it!

78

10 Key Lessons of 2022

79

Journal your way to Success

80

The 3 People you need to give to this Christmas Season

81

Life is not a Snapshot; Life is a Movie 🎥

82

Focus; Figure out your Restaurant Identity

83

5 Goals You Need to have for your Restaurant next year

84

Don't be liked, BE RESPECTED

85

Get Some Sleep 😴

86

Leaders add value period.

87

Who's going to save me?

88

10 Golden Rules of Restaurant Customer Service

89

Step Into The Cold and Out of Your Comfort Zone

90

The Power of Your Environment

91

Recession and Job Security

92

Bear Market? Inflation? Recession?

93

What Gets Rewarded Gets Done

94

Problems, Problems, Problems

95

Catering-Another Revenue Stream for Your Restaurant

96

Human Resources

97

Friendships

98

The Value of a Customer

99

Make Me Feel Important! Employee Recognition

100

The Pig and the American Dream

101

Restaurant Reviews- The good, the bad, and the ugly

102

10 Key Lessons to take away from 2021

103

STAND OUT, BE WACKY!

104

3 Characteristics of Positive Leaders

105

Don't take your foot of the gas pedal

106

Embrace the Holidays

107

What's next? Create your own path and direction

108

Don't Help Life Out

109

Be Daring! Take a Shot!

110

Please Don't Kill the Goose with the Golden Eggs!

111

Run Your Own Race

112

How does Inflation affect my life and restaurant?

113

What is a supportive spouse to the restaurateur?

114

Everything in its Place (Mise en Place)

115

Don't put all your eggs in one basket!

116

Where the heck are all the restaurant workers?

117

Restaurant Greed

118

It's all about CASH FLOW baby

119

Take Care of Your Wheels

120

Service vs Hospitality, What is the difference?

121

It's your fault! You fix it, the cavalry is not coming

122

How to start the day right and end the day right-the power of Morning Routines

123

Systems-If I left my restaurant for a month would it survive?

124

Best Business Practices During COVID

125

Where do most of your headaches come from?