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Your Life and Restaurant — 125 episodes
What Busy Holidays Reveal About Your Restaurant
When the Owner Is the Bottleneck
Why I Track Everything: How Measurement Creates Calm and Clarity
The Restaurant Bottleneck Nobody Talks About: The Window
Growing Into the Business: The Psychology of the First and Second Generation
When Servers Leave: It's not always a problem
This is the Part No One Warns You About
Pay the Price
Raising Prices Without Losing Customers: The Art & Science of Restaurant Pricing
The Gen2 Test: Why Most Families Don't Survive the Handoff
The Power of Trying (and Failing) with Ideas
How to Build a Restaurant So People Don't Quit
What I'd Do Differently If I Opened Today Part 2
What I'd Do Differently If I Opened Today
Get More Nature In Your Life
AI In the Restaurant World Pt. 2
AI in the Restaurant World
Humility in Hospitality
The Nobility of Making a Profit in the Restaurant World
LEARN Damage Control
Do you want to have more Free Time?
Don't Get Overrun
Don't Be a Drifter Be Intentional with Your Life
Don't be Afraid, Make Mistakes
Emotional Salary
The Genesis of This Podcast
Economies of Scale
Don't fall prey to the victim mentality. Take 100% ownership.
Dealing with the dreaded Health Inspection
Arrogance comes before the fall
Costing out Your Menu
Put in Your Big Rocks for 2025
Goals and The Wheel Of Life
Do you like your Restaurant Culture?
Staying Zen in the Chaotic Restaurant World
Uphold Your Standards
Staffing Part 2: Disciplining and Firing
Staffing Part 1
5 Minute Game Changing Tool
Stand Out! Create a Signature Dish
Food Cost, Storage and Inventory
3 Additional Elements to Elevate your Service and Hospitality
One extra ounce is Costing you a lot of Money $$$$
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
3 Keys to Difficult Conversations
#1 Thing You Need to Grow to Multiple Locations
Job Descriptions; Another Tool in your Toolbox
$20 an hour minimum wage?
2 Non-Negotiables
Be clear, your employees want to know; How I'm I winning?
Take a Walk in Your Customer's Shoes
Decide what is best for the Restaurant first
Don't sit on the sidelines, DECIDE and take ACTION
Top Episodes for 2023
Have a Health Goal in 2024
80/20 Rule for Restaurants
The Power of Books
Brutally Honest
Spooky Tales
Why you need an Employee Handbook ASAP
Don't Fear Exit Interviews
Please Don't Take Things Personal
Prime Costs of a Restaurant
If you do business like yesterday you will not be in business tomorrow
Love Thy Customer
The only PDF you will need in your life
Do your words match your actions?
The Power Of Vision
The Cocktail for Unhappiness
Delegation is Power
Just Serve.
Do Raindrops keep falling on your head? ☔️
Join an Organization and Invest in yourself
This Valentine's Day improve your Marriage and Relationship
How many times are you eating alone?
Leaders are Readers
Rate your Mental Health; Let's improve it!
10 Key Lessons of 2022
Journal your way to Success
The 3 People you need to give to this Christmas Season
Life is not a Snapshot; Life is a Movie 🎥
Focus; Figure out your Restaurant Identity
5 Goals You Need to have for your Restaurant next year
Don't be liked, BE RESPECTED
Get Some Sleep 😴
Leaders add value period.
Who's going to save me?
10 Golden Rules of Restaurant Customer Service
Step Into The Cold and Out of Your Comfort Zone
The Power of Your Environment
Recession and Job Security
Bear Market? Inflation? Recession?
What Gets Rewarded Gets Done
Problems, Problems, Problems
Catering-Another Revenue Stream for Your Restaurant
Human Resources
Friendships
The Value of a Customer
Make Me Feel Important! Employee Recognition
The Pig and the American Dream
Restaurant Reviews- The good, the bad, and the ugly
10 Key Lessons to take away from 2021
STAND OUT, BE WACKY!
3 Characteristics of Positive Leaders
Don't take your foot of the gas pedal
Embrace the Holidays
What's next? Create your own path and direction
Don't Help Life Out
Be Daring! Take a Shot!
Please Don't Kill the Goose with the Golden Eggs!
Run Your Own Race
How does Inflation affect my life and restaurant?
What is a supportive spouse to the restaurateur?
Everything in its Place (Mise en Place)
Don't put all your eggs in one basket!
Where the heck are all the restaurant workers?
Restaurant Greed
It's all about CASH FLOW baby
Take Care of Your Wheels
Service vs Hospitality, What is the difference?
It's your fault! You fix it, the cavalry is not coming
How to start the day right and end the day right-the power of Morning Routines
Systems-If I left my restaurant for a month would it survive?
Best Business Practices During COVID
Where do most of your headaches come from?