Today we are going to discuss Key Moments and Tipping Points The Tipping Point is a Key moment – a threshold, a critical mass, or boiling point that leads to Breakthrough - sudden, dramatic, and radical change. The TIPPING POINT in your restaurant could be the point at which… You stop losing and begin to win… The point you go from Getting your ass kicked – to stepping up and fighting back. In Your Restaurant There are several types of tipping points o You have a Financial Tipping Point o A Marketing Tipping Point o A SALES Tipping Point o A Product Quality Tipping Point o The System Tipping Point o And a Team Building or PEOPLE Tipping Point All of these Tipping Points – lead to BREAKTHROUGH – if you stay at it long enough. Oh… and just like a teeter totter that swings BOTH ways – the tipping point can also be the point or moment when the whole thing blows up or falls apart

Today’s pep talk is part 9 of a 9 part series. If you have not listened to the first EIGHT parts – I recommend that you do STARTING WITH EPISODE # 305 – BUSINESS IN A BOX. Today’s pep talk is about – FUNDAMENTAL #8 – IMPROVE, INNOVATE & ADAPT TODAY my goal is to get your INNOVATIVE juices flowing… The question we need to ask ourselves is constantly and forever is… HOW DO WE DO THIS BETTER HOW ARE THE WORLD’S BEST – doing this today - And how will The SMARTEST PEOPLE BE DOING THIS IN 5 or 10 YEARS..? THEN, GO AFTER THAT… THIS IS THE QUESTION I ASK MYSELF ALL THE TIME THIS IS THE BEST WAY I HAVE FOUND - TO MOVE FORWARD…

Today’s pep talk is part 8 of a 9 part series… If you have not listened to the first SEVEN parts – I recommend that you do staring with episode # 305 – BUSINESS IN A BOX. Today’s pep talk is about – FUNDAMENTAL #7 – BUILD A BULLET PROOF SYSTEM My goal today is to get your system building juices flowing… A restaurant is like a house of cards, It takes years and years to build IF you pull the WRONG card… The whole thing can come tumbling down in seconds The SYSTEM of your restaurant is the who, what, where, when and how… You do things. The system is the GLUE that holds your restaurant together. The BEST Restaurant Owners and The BEST Chefs have the BEST SYSTEMS.

Today’s pep talk is part 7 of a 9 part series… If you have not listened to the first SIX parts – I recommend that you do STARTING WITH EPISODE # 305 – BUSINESS IN A BOX. Today’s pep talk is about – FUNDAMENTAL #6 – MANAGE THE MONEY TODAY my goal is to get your money making juices flowing…

Today’s pep talk is about – FUNDAMENTAL #5 - INCREASE SALES. It is part 6 of a 9 part series. If you have not listened to the first FIVE parts – I recommend that you do STARTING WITH EPISODE # 305 – BUSINESS IN A BOX. TODAY I am going to get your sales juices flowing and get you primed up for 2025… Which is just around the corner…

Today’s pep talk is part 5 of a 9 part series… If you have not listened to the first FOUR parts – I recommend that you do starting with episode # 305 – BUSINESS IN A BOX. Today’s pep talk is about building a – CUSTOMER FOCUSED BRAND These are some of my favorite points on BUILDING GREAT CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS and I’m excited to share them with you. I am in the relationship business. My goal is to build long term RELATIONSHIPS with my customers… To DELIGHT MY CUSTOMERS… To have them - COME BACK - AND BRING THEIR FRIENDS...

Today’s pep talk is about one of my favorite subjects – TEAM BUILDING. These are some of my favorite points on team building and I’m excited to share them with you.   Today’s pep talk is part 4 of a 9 part series… If you have not listened to the first three parts – I recommend that you do... That way this will all make more sense…

Most Americans say they are stressed out and frustrated… BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO BUSY. The truth is - They are not stressed out because THEY are doing too much… They are stressed out because they are doing too little of what they KNOW they SHOULD be doing… Or what they ultimately NEED to do to achieve their goals… That is what is REALLY stressing people out. Today we are going to talk about how the proper mindset – What I Call The OWNER MINDSET - will greatly reduce your stress…

Today’s Pep Talk is about Goal Setting… This is PART TWO of a 9 Part Series about building a business in a box. If you missed PART ONE – I recommend you go back and listen to part ONE Episode # 305 before listening to this one… It will all make more sense that way… Today we are going to talk about one of The Eight Basic Fundamentals of Building a GREAT Restaurant It’s FUNDAMENTAL #1 Goals – Missions and Objectives…

Lots of people talk about the concept of WORK ON YOUR BUSINESS – NOT IN YOUR BUSINESS… Today we are going to talk about what that REALLY MEANS and how you can use it to WORK ON YOUR RESTAURANT. My goal is to help you - Build a Restaurant in a Box… Today’s episode is PART ONE of a 9 PART SERIES…

Today we are going to talk about why you should stop treating all your people the same...