The number one issue facing restaurant operators over the last couple of year, as told to us by restauranteurs at all levels in the business, is staffing and turnover. It is so hard to find good people to work in your restaurant and to keep them for any length of time. I’m sure you are …
Better Restaurant Operations
Lack of Team Accountability is Stealing your Profits
If you’re not holding your team accountable for running the restaurant your way, then your employees are running it their way. SHOCKER, they are doing what they think is best (or sometimes easiest for them) and not necessarily what is best for the restaurant. They are typically less experienced so what can you expect? Over the …
Increase Employee Productivity
With the 100% turnover rate in the industry and some of the lowest nationwide unemployment in years, according to Modern Restaurant Management’s Success Survey 60% of restauranteurs indicate that finding and retaining employees was the top area of opportunity in the industry. #3 was attracting/retaining customers. #4 on the survey was optimizing speed and efficiency to …
Creating and Executing a World Class Restaurant Audit Program
Restaurant Audits, OER’s, Quality Inspections are just some of the names that restaurant/hotel chains use to describe their location audit process. The names are different, but the intent is the same, get a fresh set of eyes on the location and measure how they are doing vs. the brand standards. Remember the reason you conduct …
The number one metric driving cloud software is…
It’s called Customer Success, and it’s going to be one of the major forces—perhaps the overall #1 driver—that will reshape the cloud-computing industry in 2018. Bob Evans Bob Evans recently wrote a great article in Forbes about Customer Success and how it is one of the biggest drivers for cloud companies. I highly recommend that …
Finding, Hiring, and Keeping Great People Identified as Number 1 Restaurant Management Issue
We recently asked our email list of over 9,000 recipients “what was their biggest restaurant operations issue?” The unequivocal 1st place answer was: Finding, Hiring, and Keeping employees. Which sucks for me because I don’t have a magic solution to this issue, especially one that I can make money on. To be a service to …
Common Mobile Ordering App Mistakes
I’m one of those people who like to order ahead on an app and pick stuff up and bring it home. I’ve got two very frustrating stories of trying to do this recently and one great experience. In this blog I will outline what I was doing and the things in those experiences that were frustrating …
Filling out vs. Completing Checklists (there’s a big difference)
Pretty much everyone that we speak to tell us that they do checklists daily, every shift, in order to get their restaurants ready to serve guests. About 80% are doing them on paper. Of those 80%, 94% believe that they are getting pencil whipped. Meaning that they can tell someone simply filled out the checklist …
Audio Blog – Grow Restaurant Sales Through Better Operations
Below is the audio version of our very popular blog, The Only Way to Sustainably Grow Restaurant Sales is Through Better Operations. Subscribe to our podcast Order Up – The Restaurant Ops Show on SoundCloud, iTunes, Stitcher, and Tunein.
Audio Blog – Interview with Ryan Gromfin The Restaurant Boss
The first Order Up – The Restaurant Ops Show interview is with The Restaurant Boss, Ryan Gromfin. Ryan has vast experience in the industry and helps thousands of restaurant operators on a daily basis run better restaurants. He’s a great interview. Check it out below. Subscribe to our podcast on the popular services: SoundCloud, iTunes, …