Empowering Restaurant Owners with
Knowledge & Skills

Restaurant Scientists

Revealing The Scientific Blueprint to profitable restaurant operations

A Master Class in How to Excel

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Restaurant Scientists

Why Restaurants fail

Restaurant failures are often a result of managerial limitations, incompetence, uninformed, and inexperienced operators. Often, problem spaces result in a restaurant being directly impacted as a result. We aim to find these spaces and help operators build leadership skills and create opportunity spaces as a result.

Problem Spaces

  1. Family pressure --loss of motivation by owners
  2. Stress, burnout, work/life balance
  3. Time to grow the business
  4. Human resource issues and concerns
  5. Timely & accurate sales/cost reports
  6. Inability to manage rapid growth
  7. Inability to adapt to technological & environmental changes
  8. Leadership development
  9. Bookkeeping
  10. Controlling prime cost

Opportunity Spaces

  1. Improved quality of life reduces stress
  2. Balance work & family
  3. CEO/CFO level leadership
  4. National multi-unit chain internal control systems
  5. National multi-unit chain operating benchmarks & metrics
  6. Increased profits & big data analytics
  7. Ability to manage rapid growth
  8. Ability to adapt to technological environmental changes
  9. Fully integrated cloud-based sales and cost software
  10. User-friendly App with real-time analytics
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What Does It Take To Lead?

What is leadership, and why should you lead me?
The truth is six essential aspects define that leadership.

  • Alignment
  • Philosophy: Identify & develop your coaching philosophy.
  • Build Culture: Recruit, educate, inspire & mentor team leaders that share the same behaviors, beliefs, and characteristics.
  • Game Time Strategy: Prepare daily & seasonal with customer-centric game plans.
  • Prepare for Battle: All phases of the game, safety, sanitation, facility maintenance, asset management, product specification, food/beverage benchmarks, exceptional customer service, HR, & bookkeeping.
  • Post Game: Analysis of all phases of the game.
  • Repeat: Keep the process going until the path becomes made and becomes second nature.
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Restaurant Scientists

Areas of Enhancing Leadership Skills

There are always areas one can improve themselves in for enhancing their leadership.

Technical & Cognitive Skills

  • Accounting
  • Business Planning
  • Analytical Reasoning
  • Big Picture Thinking
  • Long Term Vision

Emotional Intelligence

  • Self-awareness
  • Self-regulation
  • Ability to Work With Others
  • Effectiveness in Leading Change
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Engineering Profits

Productivity Analysis

  • Customer/labor dollar ratios
  • Sales/labor ratios
  • Customer/labor hour ratios
  • Cost ratios
  • Product yields
  • Net operating income

Benchmarks

  • Variable cost rate
  • Contribution rate
  • Fixed cost amount
  • Sales dollar break-even
  • Sales volume break-even
  • EBITDA
  • Sales check averages