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What is your responsibility as a restaurant owner? You have a responsibility to yourself, your family, your community and your employees to run a profitable restaurant. So many independent [...]

By David Scott Peters One of the key lessons I’ve learned over my years in the restaurant business is that not everyone works for you just for money. Money is a factor, but people are looking for [...]

In this post I covered the pitfalls of not communicating with your restaurant management team and offered up a solution to avoid a failure to communicate. The solution is to have weekly managers [...]

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 [...]

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 The younger workers of today have different expectations than what you might expect. To gain better control of employee relations in your restaurant, our guest blogger, [...]

When food costs rise, profit margins sink and restaurant owners must take action. In the last few weeks, you learned about the key item report, and the waste sheet. Now I will share one final [...]

By David Scott Peters Are you having trouble with labor costs and retention? Here are my top tips for managing employees: 1. How to hire your ideal employee. 2. How to retain good employees. 3. [...]

Food costs are on the rise and restaurant profit margins are taking hits. While there is a laundry list of systems you can use to reduce your food cost — such as attacking your descending dollar [...]

By David Scott Peters Restaurant Tip of the Week Track labor daily Just as you track your sales on a daily basis to see how you are doing and to see if you are on target for your budget [...]