Embrace The Suck Blog
No more despairing over an understaffed restaurant. It's time to dust off your note-taking skills because we're diving into a four-step game plan to draw the crème de la crème to your restaurant, starting immediately.
If your restaurant mirrors many others in your local scene,...
If you’re an owner who wants to make more profits and work less, then you’re in the right place.
I have a big fat warning for you, though: what you’re about to read won’t be easy.
The truth is that you have the ability to make more profits and work less.
It’s...
The Coronavirus Pandemic is unlike anything we have ever experienced. Times like these bring out the best in some people and the worst in others. It has forced some to close for good and for others to rethink their reason for staying in this industry. Some have added take-out and delivery. Others...
Creating new habits and rewiring your brain is not easy. If it was, everyone would be living their life to the potential and not have any backslides. Real, life is not like that!
It takes constant and steady pressure to change yourself. That is why the concept of Kaizen is SO IMPORTANT to our new...
Knowing where you are is just the start.
I'VE BEEN WHERE YOU ARE...
With a never-ending...
Go sit in your restaurant for an hour with your eyes closed and just listen. What do you hear?
Does it sound like the smooth cadence of a well-oiled machine or more like a clunky old car engine that backfires every minute?
When I am coaching a client, I love to sit in the dining room and just...
If you’re like the majority of restaurants and bars in your market, you’ve been struggling to find staff.
Many operators are struggling to find any staff! Are they breathing? Can they form a coherent sentence? Yes? Hired!
The new hires stay for a few weeks but end up...
The bad news: Here we are, waiting for the world to end.
I know I wrote a post a little while back saying that there would be a restaurant apocalypse in 2020. I did not see this curveball coming.
The good news: The world is not going to end! However, it is...
Gather ‘round and allow me to tell you a tale. The names have been changed to protect those not so innocent. Let this tale be a precautionary lesson for you to not go down the same path lest you suffer the same fate as this restaurant did.
You’ve been warned—stop reading now if...
What’s going on with you?
Seriously—why haven’t you started taking action on your big goals for this year yet?
- Still, waiting for a couple of key elements to fall into place?
- The position of the moon not favorable for this grand venture?
- Do you need to hire that one person who...
