If there's one thing I've heard time and again from restaurant owners, it's, “I love your stuff, David. I've read your book, seen you speak, listen to your podcast and watch your YouTube videos, but I just don't know where to start.” If you want to take action and start to improve...

A successful restaurant is one that delivers on the promise to it guests. That's hot food hot, cold food cold, a clean safe work environment for your guests and employees, WOW customer service and providing an incredible product. That's what restaurant owners are put on this earth to do, right?...

 Running a successful restaurant depends on doing the basics right. I call it Restaurant 101. Let's take a step back to the basics with your 2024 guide to running a successful restaurant.

Restaurant success starts with restaurant 101

To kick things off, let's revisit Restaurant 101 –...

In normal times, restaurant owners are always looking for ways to increase sales, but today, with all the COVID-19 business restrictions, the search for ideas is more frantic. While the instinct is there to be looking to increase restaurant sales, I want to point you toward the second strategy to...

Restaurant management 101 is how chain restaurants kick independents’ butts. Their sales all too often are better than independents. They have better costs. They have managers who do their job. They have multiple thousands of locations with no owners in them. How do they do that? And more...

Restaurant 101 is a concept I talk about for independent restaurant success. What does success look like to you? To me, restaurant prosperity is freedom from your business and the financial freedom you deserve. Is that something you're striving for in your Internet searches? When you watch my...

Learning to run our restaurant during a pandemic has been one of the greatest challenges of our lives. The restaurant industry was flourishing and then came March 2020, when, BOOM, we had to close our doors and literally learn to pivot our businesses so we could still have cash flow, even in a...

If you’ve watched any of my tip videos, read any articles I’ve written, or heard me speak on a stage at a food show, you’ve heard me mention Restaurant 101. What do I mean by Restaurant 101? Watch this video, or keep scrolling, for the breakdown of what I mean by Restaurant 101....