How to Manage Your Boss

Managing your own boss sounds oxymoronic, at first. We often think about management as being a downstream action, with someone above managing you, and you managing those further down the chain. As it turns out, the most effective leaders do both: they take the responsibility of making sure tasks get…
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How to Safely Reopen

Stay-at-home orders began on March 19, 2020 in America, more than 440 days ago at the time of this post. Since then, nearly every business has had to contend with closures, reduced staff, social distancing implementations, supply-chain interruptions, and much more. Many restaurants became to-go only, and even doctors switched…
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Principles for Great Management

Last blog, we discussed the qualities of great leadership, the personality traits someone has to either possess or develop to be effective at managing others. Today, let’s add some principles to these qualities. For inspiration, we’ll refer to an article at RunningRestaurants.com, which is geared towards restaurant management. As always,…
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Leadership Qualities

As a business owner or general manager, one of your most important tasks is delegation. On its face, delegation sounds like the opposite, like you’re trying to avoid a chore because you don’t enjoy doing it and would rather someone else deal with it instead. However, great leaders understand their…
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Empower Employees to Feel Safe

We’ve long stressed the importance of empowering employees to be the best representatives of your company as possible. Historically, this has meant allowing them to make decisions on the frontline for the sake of efficiency and timeliness—huge boons for your customer experience, as well as your employees’ own job satisfaction.…
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Does Your Business Offer Enough Upgrades?

Unless you’re running a charity or volunteering, most business owners are in the game to make a profit, and most of your employees work to earn a salary. Enhancing your business’s sales are crucial to making both goals a reality, so let’s take a look at how you can encourage…
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Your Invisible Product

Service That Sells posted a great article at the end of last month that we want to spotlight today, titled “Why Do Restaurants Fail?” As they explain, “The bottom line is that restaurants fail because they couldn’t sell enough product to cover their costs.” That may seem obvious on its…
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