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.
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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, …
Audio Blog – 5 Tips to Writing Better Line Checks
Below is the audio version of our popular blog, 5 Tips to Writing Better Line Checks. Subscribe to our podcast Order Up – The Restaurant Ops Show on iTunes, Stitcher, and Tunein.
Introduction to Order Up – The Restaurant Ops Show
We are very excited to announce the release of our podcast, Order Up – The Restaurant Ops Show. Click below to listen to a quick introduction to the podcast and what you can expect. Subscribe on any of the popular podcast sites.
Reducing Food Costs and Running Safer Restaurants with Checklists
Back in February we did a webinar with Ryan Gromfin, The Restaurant Boss, entitled Reducing Food Costs and Running Safer Restaurants. This is a straight training webinar on how to use restaurant checklists to run better operations and increase profits. Ryan is a cool dude and we kept it light with real world stories and …
The Only Way to Sustainably Grow Your Restaurant’s Sales is through Better Operations
It’s time to return to basics and focus on what works for long-term sustainable sales growth, which is better operations. Nobody wants to hear better operations because they are either delusional about the current state of their operations, or they don’t want to put in the hard work and discipline of focusing on running better operations. …
The Value of Operations Data at Your Fingertips
Operations data are the data points that are generated every meal period in a restaurant that directly affect sales and profitability.  Let’s break it down: Marketing activities remind your customers that you still exist. People come in to eat at your restaurant. You serve them food (operations) They pay and leave either happy or sad, …
Maybe You Shouldn’t Do Checklists
How could paper checklists be bad? Â Paper checklists are bad because people pencil whip them or lie on them. Â We recently conducted a survey of over 100 restaurant owners and managers. Â 94% of respondents believed that their teams weren’t completing their checklists accurately. Which raises the question; why would a sane person have their team …
The Restaurant Industry’s Dirty Little Secret
The dirty little secret in the restaurant industry is that we know a lot of our restaurant safety-documentation is not completed accurately. Every day in restaurants across the country, restaurant managers are supposed to complete temperature logs, line checks, and other safety checks to ensure that they are operating safely. A lot of those logs …
Don’t Neglect the FOH
I’m sure you have experienced this a million times…. I’m going to share a story from my days at bartending in a very busy mountain town. Spring break was one of the busiest times of the year. Two-hour waits for dinner and up to an hour wait for lunch. No real break between the shifts …