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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 [...]

Want to reduce your food cost by 3-5% buying the same products you’re buying today? I’m going to show you how. In this video I explain which report to order from your distributor to [...]

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 [...]

Most all independent restaurant owners use their “gut” to budget their restaurants instead of the real numbers. I’m here to tell you that it’s not enough. Your restaurant budget is a guide to [...]

By David Scott Peters I recently talked to a franchise owner of a fast-food chain, and he asked me, “So, what do you think is a restaurant’s greatest challenge to being successful?” I say the [...]

What is the restaurant managers’ schedule supposed to look like? Let me outline how we get there, starting with coverage. 1) Count how many shifts the restaurant operates. For example, if the [...]

There is one, and really only one, system that ultimately is the key to your restaurant running profitably. And that simple system is so easy even a junior high school student could follow it. [...]

As you look for ways to make more money in your restaurant, 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 [...]

By David Scott Peters Restaurant Tip of the Week Formulas give consistency to pricing. Many of the financial relationships necessary to develop an effective pricing structure can only be derived [...]