What if the reason you feel overwhelmed in your restaurant isn’t the hours you’re working but the decisions you’re avoiding? In this episode of “The Restaurant Prosperity Formula” podcast, I challenge the belief that being busy is the problem and instead explore how unclear priorities, avoidance and...
If you’ve ever caught yourself saying employees just don’t want to work anymore, I want to challenge you in a good way. Because what restaurant employees really want isn’t what most restaurant owners think. After coaching independent restaurants for more than 20 years, I can tell you with confidence...
 If you're searching for a restaurant consultant, here’s what I know for sure. You’re not lazy. You’re not stupid. You’re just tired of carrying the whole restaurant on your back. I work with independent restaurant owners every day and I’ve seen what happens when you hire the wrong kind of help. Bef...
You can’t win by trying to fix everything in your restaurant at once. You have to develop a plan, and you have to have patience. To offer you, a restaurant owner, some ways to go about it, I sat down with Lyn Askin, a certified EOS Implementer. In this episode of “The Restaurant Prosperity Formula” ...
 If you’ve ever typed “restaurant management system” into Google or YouTube, you know exactly what happens next. You get bombarded with software demos, dashboards and shiny tech tools. And somehow, after all that, you still don’t have a solution for the chaos in your restaurant.
Here’s the truth...
 If your chef is talented, respected and well paid but your food cost is still a mess, this is for you. I see this problem most often when restaurant owners are not cooks. They hire a chef and assume that is what they need in the kitchen and solves everything. The chef then defines their own role an...
 If you’ve ever started a year full of optimism only to find yourself buried under half-finished projects and mounting stress, this one is for you. In this episode of “The Restaurant Prosperity Formula” podcast, I dig into why so many restaurant owners feel overwhelmed despite working harder than ev...
When someone asks me, “How do I run a successful restaurant?” what they are really asking is, “How do I stop feeling overwhelmed, behind and unsure?” I want to talk directly to you as a restaurant owner about what actually makes a restaurant successful and how to run a successful restaurant today.
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 If I asked you right now, as a restaurant owner, what your food cost is, you’d probably give me a number. But if I asked you why it’s that number, where it’s leaking or which items are hurting you the most, most restaurant owners go quiet. That silence is expensive. Today I want to share the #1 way...
If you’ve ever had a powerful “aha” moment about why your restaurant feels out of control — only to find yourself right back in the chaos a week later — this episode is for you. In Part 2 of a two-part series focused on your inner game, I move beyond awareness and into execution, breaking down why i...
 Restaurant owners, let me describe a situation and see if it feels familiar. You own the restaurant. Your money is on the line. Your name is on the lease. But decisions are being made without you. Schedules change without discussion. Systems get ignored or reinterpreted. And when you push back, you...
Most restaurant owners don’t fail because they’re bad at business. They fail because they keep trying to do it alone. Once they raise their hand and ask for help, that is how coaching transforms restaurants. I want to share stories from real restaurant owners I’ve coached. These stories come from th...
