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Get cutting edge tools, techniques, tips and straight talk from the world’s leading restaurant coach. Donald Burns is know for unique programs and methods that create dramatic results for his clients.
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Episode 186 – Stop Chasing Food Cost Percentage with Bo Bryant (opens the original)
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Stop Chasing Food-Cost Percentage: The Metrics and Negotiations That Actually Protect Profit with Bo Bryant The Restaurant Coach® Podcast — Episode 186 Most independent restaurant owners know their food-cost percentage. Far fewer understand what that percentage is actually telling them. A restaurant can report a “good” food-cost percentage while quietly losing thousands of dollars through poor purchasing, inaccurate recipes, overportioning, waste, theft, substitutions, invoice errors, and weak d
Episode 185- Building an Empire with Lisa Gasparian (opens the original)
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Building an Empire with Lisa Gasparian: How She Turned a Crisis into a Multi-Million Dollar Brand What do you do when everything you’ve built gets turned upside down? You build something even bigger. In this episode of The Restaurant Coach Podcast , Donald Burns sits down with entrepreneur and restaurateur Lisa Gasparian , founder of Cafe Cremerie , to share the remarkable story of how she transformed one of the most difficult seasons of her career into the foundation of a thriving multi-million
Episode 184 – Your Menu Is Programming Your Guests (opens the original)
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Your Menu Is Programming Your Guests: The Psychology Behind Every Purchase Most restaurant owners think their menu is a list of food. It’s not. It’s the most powerful sales tool in your restaurant. Long before your server greets the table, your guests have already begun making buying decisions. Every price, every description, every section, every design choice, and every word on your menu is influencing what they order—and how much they spend. In this episode of The Restaurant Coach Podcast , Do
Episode 183 -The Real Problem With Your Staff (opens the original)
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What if your staffing problem isn’t actually a staffing problem? Every restaurant owner has experienced it. You interview someone who seems perfect. They say all the right things. They start strong. You begin imagining how much easier life is about to become. Then, a few weeks later… They lose their urgency. They create drama. They damage your culture. Or they disappear without warning. The natural reaction is to blame today’s labor market. But what if the real issue isn’t the people you’re hiri
Episode 182 – The Prison You Created (opens the original)
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What if the biggest thing holding your restaurant back… is you? Most restaurant owners believe they’re trapped by labor shortages, rising food costs, inflation, or a lack of good employees. But what if those aren’t the real prison? What if the prison was built one decision, one belief, and one story at a time? In this episode of The Restaurant Coach Podcast , Donald Burns challenges one of the most dangerous lies in the restaurant industry: “If I just work harder, everything will get better.” Th
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