The control of wage costs is a high priority for all hospitality managers. However, there are many who aren't aware of all the available options for fixing a wage cost...
One of the symptoms of the current staffing crisis is upward pressure on the salaries of hospitality management candidates. Every hospitality business owner I talk to reports finding themselves in...
Your own power is derived from a combination of personal leadership qualities and the way others perceive you. Effective leaders have great capacity to influence others. However, having power doesn’t...
The days of being able to fill a supervisory or management vacancy with a candidate from outside your business without causing chaos or spending serious amounts of time and money...
Traditional training models can solve one basic problem: lack of knowledge or skills. A performance issue resulting from a lack of knowledge or skills is relatively easy to fix: Provide...
The most effective way to improve the profit of a hospitality business is to increase the amount of revenue you earn from your existing customers. It’s a more profitable strategy than...
As a consultant I talk to hospitality owners and managers every day. They all report being short staffed and deeply concerned. Rather than just whine about the problem, here are...
A common problem we see in hospitality businesses is high wage costs. The target figure for wage costs depends on the style of your business, methods of production, the level of...
Having worked with dozens of hospitality companies as operational managers and business consultants, we’ve evolved a list of questions that business owners should try to answer when they want to...
We have marketing messages thrust upon us for much of our waking lives, whether we like it or not. However, a restaurant operator has the ability to place an advertisement...