Embrace The Suck Blog
*The following is an excerpt from my new book: Your Restaurant Culture Sucks coming out in September 2021.
"You should close your restaurant."
I can’t believe the words just came out of my mouth. There was a very long silence on the other end of the Zoom call. Enough silence that you knew...
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...
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...
We all want to get back to “normal,” whatever that means now.
Honestly, normal wasn’t very normal in the first place so, let’s look at this as a plot twist!
This time around is your opportunity to do things better than you did before. COVID-19 isn’t your fault, but...
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 (a shout out to all the toilet paper hoarders out there). Now, it’s easy to blame your restaurant closing down due to the Coronavirus. Don’t...
“You’re obsessed!”
If someone said that to you right now, how would you feel?
Uneasy? Pissed? Shocked? Relatively pleased?
The word obsession gets a bad rap. Granted that obsession can be destructive if taken to extremes like anything. However, when it is focused like a laser...
So, what is your title? Are you a manager or a leader?
Before you jump on the “I’m a leader bandwagon”, we should have a talk. You might be suffering from Leadership Delusion. It’s fairly common in this industry. We have a lot of preconceived notions about what a leader...
I have a friend who is a badass scientist (I mean a real badass).
What lights her up is when she is talking about her passion. If you listen to passionate people talk about what they love, it’s contagious and inspiring. Great conversations get that one pound piece of grey matter sitting on...
