Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty? It has been extremely busy here at what we like to call “The Button.” We’re literally days away from our next workshop in Las Vegas. My wife Sue and I are [...]
I’m really excited about this… As many of you know I’ve been working hard to bring you great systems, tools and information to help you get everything out of running your [...]
The More Things Change the More they Stay the Same! I found a must watch video on Google. I mean it, it’s a must watch. This Black & White Video was made in the mid 1940s/early 1950s on what [...]
I was on the phone with Jamie Oikle of RestaurantReport.com and learned they are going to publish a magazine that I thought any independent restaurant owner or manager should have. In fact, I [...]
Selling more wine! A brilliant idea. You may have noticed I didn’t make a Blog entry last week. Well I was in Myrtle Beach, SC for a few days, so my schedule just didn’t allow me enough time to [...]
Great Service is the Key to Competing with the Chain Restaurants. My wife Susan and I are always looking for Independent Restaurants to patronize. That is a real challenge for us because we live [...]
Reprinted from IRS Newswire email Newsletter July 28, 2006 Issue Number: IR-2006-118 IRS Announces New Tip Reporting Program WASHINGTON The Internal Revenue Service today released formal guidance [...]
Increase Sales with a Server Incentive Called “Server Poker.” All too often when we run server incentive programs for our sales people, servers and bartenders, the underperforming [...]
By now you know I’ve grown up in this crazy business we’ve all come to love. A great deal of the passion I have for the restaurant business comes from my mother Linda Peters-Getchell [...]
Here’s a Fantastic FREE Wine Resource! When I was an instructor at the Scottsdale Culinary Institute years ago, one of the classes I taught was “Wines and Spirits.” I found that [...]