Beyond Order-Taking

Let’s return to RestaurantRockstars.com’s Roger Beaudoin again for inspiration, this time for how to maximize profits and create an overall superior customer experience through good sales practices and quality options. To begin, we can see in another video podcast with RunningRestaurants.com that Beaudoin describes the difference between salespeople and order-takers. He…
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More Keys to a Great Restaurant Work Culture

More Keys to a Great Restaurant Work Culture Last week, we covered RestaurantRockstars.com-founder Roger Beaudoin’s first four keys to developing a great restaurant work environment. This week, we’ll detail the remaining points of his philosophical roadmap for ensuring a great customer experience. If It’s Not Fun, Why Do It? Beaudoin…
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The Keys to a Great Restaurant Work Culture

RunningRestaurants.com recently posted a recorded call with Roger Beaudoin (founder of RestaurantRockstars.com) to explain what makes for a great working environment in a restaurant. His eight points act as a sort of philosophical roadmap for how to maintain a healthy culture that will ultimately deliver the best customer experience possible.…
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Selling in the Age of COVID-19

Salespeople didn’t know how easy we had it before March 2020. In those days, we mainly had to focus on asking open-ended questions, explaining how our products and services could meet the customers’ needs, overcoming their objections, and closing the sale. Throw in some follow-ups and referral requests, and you…
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Mystery Shopping for Compliance

Many industries are closely regulated, and so it’s very important for employees to follow the rules and avoid any legal violations. For example, retail stores that sell tobacco or alcohol are not permitted to sell those items to anyone under the age of 21, and doing so can result in…
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Happy Employee Appreciation Day 2020!

Happy Employee Appreciation Day 2020! Today is the one day of the year to show your staff just how much your value their hard work and overall contributions. Just today. No other day. Of course that’s not true! Just like Valentine’s Day isn’t the one time of the year to…
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Should You Script Your Employees?

As you endeavor to improve the customer experience at your business, you’ll want to do everything you can to ensure that your employees are always delivering their best, most consistent performances possible. In fact, many businesses will develop something like a flowchart for employees to memorize to maintain that consistency.…
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The Secret to Working with Millennials

We’ve all seen those articles about the things millennials are killing. Industries like cable TV are falling to digital streaming, and social conventions like face-to-face conversations are giving way to text messaging and social media. Let’s not forget all those accusations of how pampered and selfish most are, too. Blaming…
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Why Employees Should Want to Be Mystery Shopped

We’re almost there! Christmas is less than a week away, and we suspect many employees like yourself can’t wait to push through the festivities and make it to the other side of New Year’s, right? —Soon. Just keep focused and it’ll all be over before you know it! In the…
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