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Episode 108 – The 19 Fatal Mistakes Restaurants Make

November 18, 2022PodcastDonald Burns, Embrace the Suck, Leadership, marketing, masterminds, Outstanding Mindset, profits, restaurant business, Restaurant Coach, restaurant masterminds, Restaurant Success Summit, restaurants, The Restaurant Coach, Your Restaurant Culture Sucks, Your Restaurant Still Sucks, Your Restaurant Suckstherestaurantcoachpodcast

Welcome to The Restaurant Coach Podcast. It is the cure for those that refuse to accept mediocrity.

The year is rapidly coming to a close and that means it’s time to finish 2022 strong and set 2023 up for massive success. Every November I hold an online workshop series all centered around giving you some tools that you can use immediately to amp up your team, your menu, your marketing, your sales and your profits! It’s called The 3 Days To Thrive Challenge and it’s happening November 28th, 29th and 30th. You can head over to 3DaysToThriveChallenge.com to get signed up.

My third book: Your Restaurant Culture Sucks is going to be finally released as an audio book! I want to give you a sneak peak into one of my favorite chapters.

So sit back, take notes and let’s talk about The 19 Fatal Mistakes Restaurants Make…

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Episode 107 – What’s Holding You Back? Anchors and Accelerators!

November 16, 2022PodcastDonald Burns, Embrace the Suck, Leadership, marketing, masterminds, Outstanding Mindset, podcast, profits, restaurant business, Restaurant Coach, restaurant masterminds, Restaurant Success Summit, restaurants, The Restaurant Coach, Your Restaurant Culture Sucks, Your Restaurant Still Sucks, Your Restaurant Suckstherestaurantcoachpodcast

Success is 80% psychological and 20% systems and strategies. This is we’re the majority of restaurant coaches go wrong…they coach on the 20%!

Every October I host my three day Restaurant Success Summit here in Arizona for my coaching members. On day one I always start with a mindset workshop because you learn to control your emotions and mindset is more critical that any new checklist or software. You learning more about your strengths. Your weaknesses. And what you should focus on over trying to control everything is the key to having a restaurant that doesn’t run your life.

On today’s episode, I was to take you into a workshop I did at a previous Restaurant Success Summit and introduce you to the idea of anchors and accelerators…let’s jump into the LIVE workshop…

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Episode 106 – Core Values Drive Everything with Zack Oates

November 3, 2022PodcastDonald Burns, Embrace the Suck, Leadership, marketing, masterminds, Outstanding Mindset, Ovation, podcast, profits, restaurant business, Restaurant Coach, restaurant masterminds, Restaurant Success Summit, restaurants, The Restaurant Coach, Your Restaurant Culture Sucks, Your Restaurant Still Sucks, Your Restaurant Sucks, Zack Oatestherestaurantcoachpodcast

You know what I love? I love culture! Well, I love a great culture that helps people reach there potential. Toxic cultures suck and sadly 80% of independent restaurants have a culture that keeps them hostage to working IN their business and not ON there business. But, here’s the inside secret…culture can be changed. Now, is it easy. Oh hell no! Is it required if you ever want to break free from your restaurant running your life? Oh hell yes! How do you start? It starts with getting clear on your core values and then getting on your soapbox and preaching these values every single day.

My good friend is Zack Oates who runs an incredible tech company called Ovation. The thing that impresses me about Zack is not just the amazing service he offers which allows restaurants to create a better guest experience for their guests digitally…he also has created an incredible culture that has allowed his brand to see rapid growth year after year. Today I had a chance to ask he what are the keys to achieving a successful culture. Let’s go to the studio…

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Episode 105 – Create a People Over Profits Culture with Rick Arsenault

October 31, 2022PodcastBluebird Cafe and Grill, Donald Burns, Embrace the Suck, Leadership, marketing, masterminds, Outstanding Mindset, podcast, profits, restaurant business, Restaurant Coach, restaurant masterminds, Restaurant Success Summit, restaurants, Rick Arsensault, The Restaurant Coach, Your Restaurant Culture Sucks, Your Restaurant Still Sucks, Your Restaurant Suckstherestaurantcoachpodcast

Culture has gotten a lot of attention lately and honestly if you would have worked more to build an epic culture you most likely would not have 80% of the problems your restaurant has right now. Yes. Culture is that critical to restaurant success! #WriteThisShitDown – Culture is what separates the good from the great from the outstanding. My guest today knows first hand how important building the right culture is. Rick and Michelle Arsenal are the owners of The Bluebird Cafe & Grill in Orangeville, Ontario. Rick sat down with me to talk about the culture he works on everyday to build with his team as he puts people before profits. Let’s jump in to the interview…

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Episode 104 – 2022 Hot Marketing Trends with Bruce Irving

October 21, 2022PodcastBruce Irving, Donald Burns, Embrace the Suck, Leadership, marketing, masterminds, Outstanding Mindset, podcast, profits, restaurant business, Restaurant Coach, restaurant masterminds, Restaurant Success Summit, restaurants, Smart Pizza Marketing, The Restaurant Coach, Your Restaurant Culture Sucks, Your Restaurant Still Sucks, Your Restaurant Suckstherestaurantcoachpodcast

Welcome to the Restaurant Coach Podcast it is the cure for the common restaurant. Who do you go to to bounce ideas off? Do you have a mentor? How about a group of peers that can be a sounding board? My guest today is not only a great friend he is also my go to person when I have marketing ideas that I want to get feedback on. Bruce Irving is the founder of Smart Pizza Marketing. Bruce and I met about 5 years ago when we were both a part of a mastermind group for coaches and consultants.

Now to be honest, like a lot of people I had my hesitation about joining a mastermind group. I thought it was going to be a bunch of rah rah pump people up kind of thing. And it wasn’t. It was a group of peers that gave me feedback, suggestions, and held me accountable. I only wish I had found out the true power of a mastermind earlier. My business tripled after joining that first mastermind group years ago. I now below to a couple high level masterminds that have continued to consistently grow The Restaurant Coach Brand year after year. If you want to check out my mastermind group called Restaurant Masterminds…you can head over to RestaurantMasterminds.com to see what it’s all about.

Every October we get together for three days in Scottsdale Arizona for annual masterminds conference called The Restaurant Success Summit where we have 18 workshops in just 3 days! This is our three year anniversary. Well, it would have been 4 if it wasn’t for COVID in 2020. But, we’re back and at it. Bruce is speaking at the event and this year he is bringing the heat with hot new trends like YouTube Shorts, TikTok Ads, and guerrilla marketing ideas that are low to no cost but effective like crazy. So let’s jump into the studio and the conversation…

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Episode 103 – Grow Your Profits 15% NOW!

October 14, 2022PodcastDonald Burns, Embrace the Suck, Leadership, marketing, masterminds, Outstanding Mindset, podcast, profits, restaurant business, Restaurant Coach, restaurant masterminds, Restaurant Success Summit, restaurants, The Restaurant Coach, Your Restaurant Culture Sucks, Your Restaurant Still Sucks, Your Restaurant Suckstherestaurantcoachpodcast

Welcome to The Restaurant Coach Podcast, it is the cure for the common restaurant. Hey, what if I could show you a way to increase your profits 12-15% over the next 90-days? If you’re listening to this podcast you’re probably yelling SHOW ME THE MONEY right now! There are a hundreds ways to make money and a thousand ways to lose it. Yes, it always seems like the odds are stacked against us. But, only if we allow those thousand little cuts to suck away our profits. Today’s session if from a training I did for my private Facebook group called The Restaurant Coach Nation. I do LIVE training each Friday (travel and holidays permitted) for The TRC Nation and my coaching members. It’s FREE to join…you just need to be currently working in the restaurant industry. Head over the the link in the show notes to become a member. Now without further ado let’s jump into how to increase your profits 15% in the next 90-days!

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