Episode 126 – How To Spot The Food Cost Thieves Stealing Your Profits

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Episode 124 – The 6 Critical Systems You MUST Have To Thrive

October 18, 2023PodcastDonald 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

Hey there, restaurant trailblazers! Ever wished for an insider’s look into the secret sauce that drives the most successful establishments? Today’s your lucky day! This episode offers a rare, behind-the-scenes peek into my exclusive coaching program for Restaurant Owners ONLY – Restaurant Masterminds.

Are you running your restaurant, or is it running you? The difference often lies in the systems you have (or don’t have) in place.

We’re diving deep into the six mission-critical systems that form the backbone of Restaurant Masterminds:

1️⃣ Core Value/Mission Card – Nail down your WHY.
2️⃣ Integrated Training System – Elevate consistency and quality.
3️⃣ Food Costing – Boost profits without compromising the experience.
4️⃣ Marketing Calendar – Plan promotions to always stay in the limelight.
5️⃣ Weekly Budgets/P&L – Drive decisions with real-time data.
6️⃣ The 6 Critical KPIs – The heartbeat of your restaurant’s success.

Too many establishments operate without these systems, leaving gaps in their armor. Don’t be one of them!

Tune in to dissect each system, grasp its role, and crucially, discover how to wield them to their maximum potential. 📈

Remember, it’s not just having the arsenal, but mastering its deployment. Dive in for your masterclass!

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Episode 123 – Breaking the Grind: Chef Adam Lamb on Redefining Kitchen Culture

October 16, 2023PodcastAdam Lamb, Donald 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

In the world of culinary arts, the dance between passion and pressure is eternal. But what happens when the rhythm gets disrupted? When the voice of doubt becomes louder than the sizzle of the grill? Today’s episode is all about rediscovering that harmony.

Join me, Donald Burns, as I sit down with the extraordinary Chef Adam Lamb. With three decades in the game, Chef Lamb delves deep into the core of the kitchen world, its highs and lows, and how he rediscovered the essence of why he first donned the chef’s hat.

From monumental mistakes to awe-inspiring achievements, Adam’s journey is one of resilience, redemption, and redefinition. Learn how he’s coaching chefs to break free from the grind and truly find their flow.

Highlights:

The transformative journey of Chef Adam Lamb
The battle between emotional intelligence and the kitchen’s heat
Crafting a kitchen culture that’s demanding but not demeaning
Sneak peek into Chef Adam’s sessions at the upcoming Restaurant Success Summit

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Episode 122 – Cracking the Culture Code with Chef Romeo Regalli

September 27, 2023PodcastDonald Burns, Embrace the Suck, Leadership, marketing, masterminds, Outstanding Mindset, podcast, profits, Ras Plant Based, 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!

This is the place where we find solutions to the everyday problems restaurants face. We’re all about turning your restaurant into a success story!

Today, I’m super excited to chat with Chef Romeo Regalli. He’s part of the dynamic duo (along with his wife, Milka) and the chef behind Ras Plant Based, an awesome Ethiopian restaurant in NYC. This place is special, guys—it’s all about plant-based foods, it’s super Eco-friendly, and it brings a cool and fresh vibe to the dining scene!

But today, we’re going beyond talking about tasty dishes. We’re diving into a big topic—‘Culture.’ We’re exploring why having a strong and positive culture is super important for making your restaurant a hit and keeping it successful for the long run!

Culture—it’s the heart and soul of your restaurant. It’s like the hidden script that guides how your restaurant works, how your team acts, and what your customers experience when they walk through your doors.

But hey, before we dive in, here’s a cool thing for you all—come and join our new online group, The Restaurant Coach Vault! You’ll get access to FREE training, group chats, and you can ask questions to experts from around the world! Just head to www.TheRestaurantCoachVault.com. It’s all about learning and growing together!

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Episode 121 – The 8 Driving Forces of Restaurant Success

September 4, 2023PodcastDonald Burns, Embrace the Suck, Leadership, marketing, masterminds, Outstanding Mindset, podcast, profits, restaurant business, Restaurant Coach, restaurant masterminds, Restaurant Owner Bootcamp, Restaurant Success Summit, restaurants, The Restaurant Coach, Your Restaurant Culture Sucks, Your Restaurant Still Sucks, Your Restaurant Suckstherestaurantcoachpodcast

Someone reached out and offered to coach me and it changed everything. Allow me to offer that to you. Today is a special episode because I wanted to share a chapter from my third book Your Restaurant Culture Sucks! I had all 5 of my books narrated by the incredible Sean Pratt. Now this final book in the Your Restaurant Sucks Trilogy is the end of that series and it starts a new series of books, audio books, and training courses designed to help you finally pull all the pieces together into a coherent system that is guaranteed to allow you to maximize your profitability and get your life back. You can have your cake and eat it too without sacrificing your life to your restaurant.

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Episode 120 – The AI Tsunami Transforming Your Dining Experience with Zack Oates

August 7, 2023PodcastAI, Donald 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 Sucks, Zack Oatestherestaurantcoachpodcast

Welcome to The Restaurant Coach Podcast, it’s the cure for the common restaurant. Today we have an exciting guest on the show. Zack Oates is the founder of Ovation, a company revolutionizing how restaurants connect with their guest through digital marketing, online surveys, SMS marketing, and, quite importantly, data analysis. Before we jump into the interview, let’s chat about the changes coming with AI. Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is dramatically reshaping the landscape of our world. The implications are vast and offer solutions to longstanding challenges. How can restaurants use this to get ahead of their competition? Listen in and find out…

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Episode 119 – The Framework That Saved My Restaurant

July 10, 2023PodcastDonald 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

Ever felt like trying to solve the secret to restaurant success was like trying to solve giant Rubik’s Cube. Sit down and buckle up because this is going to be a wild episode! I am going to share with you, for the first time …since last Friday, The Framework that Changed My Restaurant & Double Restaurant Profits.

Donald Burns, The Restaurant Coach and author of the Your Restaurant Sucks Trilogy. Now, I’m sure I have said this 10,000+ times: All business problems are people problems.

I want to share with you some of the challenges that I faced back in the nineties when I opened my first restaurant….

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Episode 118 – The 12 BullSh*t Lies We Tell That Keeps Our Restaurants Stuck

June 15, 2023PodcastDonald Burns, Embrace the Suck, Leadership, 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

Stop everything! Let’s have a serious talk about the 12 Bullshit Lies you are telling yourself that are holding your restaurant back!

Welcome to the Restaurant Coach Podcast, It is the cure for the common restaurant.

I’m sure that the catchy title got your attention! You might be saying to yourself right now: Bullshit lies? Who me?

Yes, you!

Now don’t take it too personally because we all lie to ourselves from time to time. Yes, even I do it, too, so welcome to the club! When you admit it and don’t let it control you, you can finally do something about it, and that’s exactly why you and I are here! I’m not going to give you a pass on your bullshit, I’m here to help you deal with your bullshit.

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Episode 117 – Innovate or Die!

May 23, 2023PodcastDonald 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. Let’s have a talk about trends and innovation. The #1 advantage you have as an independent restaurant is the ability to change and adapt to market trends fast! The sad thing is that most let fear control them and wait until they see others do it before they jump on board. By then your competitive advantage is gone. You have to take risks to get the rewards. If you saw that movie, “Air” about the team behind The Air Jordan shoes…that team made a big leap of faith and went all in on something that could have easily blown up in their face. They took a chance and bet it all. Are you one that is willing to take the leap? Are you one that sets trends or follows them? In the game of restaurants, it’s not survival of the fittest, but survival of the quickest. So let’s get started. Let’s talk, let’s innovate, let’s change and most importantly, let’s be the leaders of the game. Now, I want to invite you to take a seat and listen in on a presentation I did recently in Madrid at the famous Hospitality Innovation Planet. My session was all about trends and innovation. So take notes and see if there are any gold nuggets that might just work for your restaurant…

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Delivery The Digital Restaurant: The Path to Digital Maturity

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Episode 116 – Digital Maturity is the Way with Meredith Sandland and Carl Orsbourn

April 27, 2023PodcastCarl Orsbourn, Donald Burns, Embrace the Suck, Leadership, marketing, masterminds, Meredith Sandland, Outstanding Mindset, podcast, profits, restaurant business, Restaurant Coach, restaurant masterminds, Restaurant Success Summit, restaurants, The Restaurant Coach, Your Restaurant Still Sucks, Your Restaurant Suckstherestaurantcoachpodcast

Welcome to The Restaurant Coach Podcast, it is the cure for the common restaurant. Change. Weather you like it or not it’s happening. Most people don’t like change and long for the good old days…but the good old days weren’t always so good of your honest with yourself. Today I want to talk to you about two words: digital maturity. As we all know, the restaurant industry is highly competitive, and those who don’t adapt to the ever-changing landscape will be left behind. So let’s dive right into these the reasons why digital maturity is critical to restaurant success see how they can make a significant impact on your restaurant’s growth and long-term success with authors of Delivering The Digital Restaurant: The Path to Digital Maturity, Meredith Sandland and Carl Orsbourn.

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