1. David Scott Peters

  Traditionally labor costs in a restaurant are just about your highest expense. The only thing higher? No customers. To help you tackle your labor costs, here are a few links to past blog [...]

As promised in this previous post, here are a few more examples of how your restaurant employees steal from you. I covered several other ways in my last post, too. You’ll be able to see that just [...]

As we discussed in the first post in this series, people steal. And their theft is a reality of doing business. I promised in that post to tell you how we were going to stop theft in your [...]

Theft is a reality of doing business. The more employees you have, the greater your risk. You have to trust people with your cash, product and customers because you can’t do it all yourself, let [...]

By David Scott Peters Take this self-quiz to measure your fit with my upcoming workshop. At dinnertime, do you often have more empty seats than customers? Your sales are up, but your profits are [...]

As a restaurant owner, your top priority for your restaurant is to be profitable. These are my unyielding words of advice for every independent restaurant owner who forgets all the people [...]

Why is a Budget So Important for your Restaurant Operations? Does the mere thought of writing a budget make your head spin and your heart beat with anxiety? Do you sit down to work on a budget [...]

By David Scott Peters Your general manager should be your right hand person; the one person you can count on to operate your restaurant the correct way. After all, you can’t be there all the [...]

By David Scott Peters As you plan for the year ahead, there are many tools you can use to influence purchasing behavior of customers in your restaurant. Here are 5 easy things you can do to your [...]

By David Scott Peters The end of a year often gives us opportunity to reflect on our successes and not-so-impressive moments from the past 12 months. Now is the time to take inventory and decide [...]