Restaurant Outloud

The #1 Tool to Grow Your Restaurant Business

I’ve got a secret tip for achieving greatness in your restaurant.  Coaches and mentorship.  No matter how good you are at anything - you need to have someone in your corner to bounce your ideas off of or keep pushing you to achieve greater things.  Check out the video above to see why I think it’s so important.

Should Labor & Utilities be Included in Restaurant Food Cost

This is one of the top questions I’m asked all the time.  How do I figure out how to include labor and utilities into my plate cost.  The short answer: you don’t.  Check out the video to see why I don’t recommend this.

Why Your Restaurant Staff Just Doesn't Get It

Eliminate Luck From Great Restaurant Service

How can you ensure that your restaurant is dishing up WOW service for each and every guest every single day?  This video walks you through the 3 things that have to happen consistently to provide the most amazing service and experience for your customers.

Restaurant Marketing in 3 Steps

Marketings isn’t a difficult, convoluted, intricate process.  Today’s video walks you through the only 3 steps you’ll need to know. These are simple, easy things that every restaurant owner can do right now.  

Restaurant Halloween Marketing Idea

What do you do on one of the slowest nights for a restaurant business?  Watch the video for my easy and fun tip on building your email list, creating a buzz on your Facebook page and getting people in the door on Halloween.

Get All Fired Up With Inspiration for Your Restaurant

When you’re feeling like there’s nothing left for your restaurant to do, use the tips I’m giving you in the video to find inspiration to do something new on your menu, or present a plate in a different way or change the systems in your business.  There is, quite literally, inspiration everywhere you turn.  When you make a conscious decision to look for inspiration you and your team will have a fresh new look on your restaurant business.

Don't Argue About What Happened In Your Restaurant, Only The How And Why!

It’s easy to sit in the past and try to figure out why something bad happened.  If you’re like most restaurant owners, you’re looking to waste LESS time and this video will help.  We’re talking today in this super short video about what you should and shouldn’t do when something goes wrong.  

Celebrate the Small Victories in Your Restaurant Business

It’s time to look at what success really means.  It doesn’t always have to be a massive cash windfall in your business.  I’m going to show you not only what and how to track some of the small victories in your restaurant business, but also celebrate them.  Remember, overnight sensations almost never happens – the newsworthy event only comes after years of small accomplishments and movements.

How to Be Everything to Everybody at Your Restaurant and At Home

It’s so easy for us to get caught up in the non stop craziness of running a restaurant.  We seem to wear 17 hats every day and it’s exhausting.  Have you stopped to think how you respond to certain situations can affect yourself, your family, your customers or your staff?  I have 3 simple tips that you can put into play TODAY to start being more to all of the people in your life.  In fact, I’m willing to bet when you start “being more” to them, you’ll find that you’re also helping yourself in more ways than one.