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The Restaurant Roadmap is your guide to building and running a successful restaurant. Each episode explores the full journey of operations—from planning and development to menu design, execution, and growth.
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Don’t Wait Until You Need It: Smarter Financing for Restaurant Operators: ARF Financial (opens the original)
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When it comes to restaurant financing, the worst time to look for capital is when you desperately need it. In this episode of The Restaurant Roadmap , Danny sits down with Celeste Delmenier, Chief Sales Officer, and Marie Lachmanian, VP of Sales at ARF Financial , to talk about one of the biggest challenges facing restaurant operators: maintaining access to the capital needed to operate, grow, and weather the unexpected. With rising food and labor costs, increasing rents, equipment expenses, and
The Employee Life Cycle - Part 6 (opens the original)
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Part six of the Employee Life Cycle series focuses on one of the most overlooked and most powerful leadership moments in a restaurant: how people leave. This episode explains why off-boarding should be treated as a normal, intentional part of the employee life cycle, not as a failure or an uncomfortable afterthought. We discuss how to handle resignations with professionalism, how to manage terminations in a way that protects morale and culture, and why knowledge transfer and transition planning
The Employee Life Cycle - Part 5 (opens the original)
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In Part 5 of the Employee Life Cycle series, we focus on one of the most expensive and emotionally charged decisions operators make: who to promote, and how to keep great people once they’ve grown into leadership roles. This episode breaks down the difference between promoting based on readiness versus tenure, and why strong performance on the floor doesn’t automatically translate into success as a manager. We discuss how to avoid the common “great employee, bad manager” trap by setting clear ro
The Employee Life Cycle - Part 4 (opens the original)
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In this episode of the Restaurant Roadmap Podcast , Danny, Eric, and Amanda continue their Employee Lifecycle series with a deep dive into performance management ; exploring how restaurant leaders can coach employees, reinforce standards, and develop future leaders through consistent communication and accountability. The discussion begins by distinguishing coaching from correction . Coaching is about developing people and helping them grow, while correction exists to protect operational standard
The Employee Life Cycle - Part 3 (opens the original)
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In Part 3 of the Employee Life Cycle series on The Restaurant Roadmap Podcast , we focus on what happens after a new hire completes onboarding, and why most retention problems actually start during training and team integration. This episode breaks down the differences among task training, standards training, and culture training, and explains why simply telling a new hire to “shadow someone” rarely produces consistent results. We talk through what clear training plans really look like in a rest
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