Labor

This is the secret to avoiding overtime in your restaurant. It’s also the secret to having qualified, trained employees in your restaurant. Follow this tip and you can stop settling for [...]

Want to lower restaurant labor cost? Look to your time clock. It’s a prime area where restaurant owners get robbed on labor costs. Theft happens at the time clock whenever you are not [...]

I bet you’ve heard that a typical restaurant makes a nickel to 8 cents on every dollar they bring in. I bet you’ve heard about the study Ohio State University did more than a decade ago where [...]

Planning for success requires the implementation and consistent execution of a list of very specific systems, such as predicting restaurant sales. Maybe more importantly, you also need someone [...]

If you’re struggling to find a way to make the money you deserve in your restaurant, then this video is for you. David teaches you the one number you must know to make money in the [...]

By Shelby Lile Attorney, Gust Rosenfeld On May 18, 2016, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced its final rule updating overtime exemptions. The rule will affect white collar workers, or those [...]

Your restaurant prime cost is the most important number in your restaurant. Until recently, finding your prime cost was a real challenge. You had to pull a number of different spreadsheets [...]

  Prime cost, prime cost, prime cost! It’s all we think about. It’s where we lose the most money when we don’t pay attention. It’s in the control of management every day in how they hire, [...]

Before I dive into this topic, let me say this: if you don’t have a working budget with a name to every dollar you spend, you need one before the rest of this will work. We would love to help [...]

How many times have you asked your management team if they have enough people hired to fill the schedule and they waved you away with an impatient, “yes”? But the next thing you know your [...]