Practical thinking on restaurant finances, systems, and decision-making — written for owners who want to understand what’s really driving results.
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When owners want clarity about their own situation, the right next step is always to start with understanding how their systems are actually working.
It happened: Silicon Valley Bank sold. Well, at least part of it. The bank’s deposits, loans, and 17 branches — scheduled to reopen this week — were snagged by First Citizens BancShares, a Raleigh-based bank. (About $90 billion of assets still remain with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.) The hope is that this sale will […]
Firstly, before I jump into what business referrals could mean for your Restaurant business, I wanted you to see this. Even though I don’t normally talk about tax stuff … the explosion of shady flim-flammers gaming the Employee Retention Credit and making questionable claims on behalf of business owners is raising all kinds of red flags […]
Last week, I began asking you a series of questions about your business. Hopefully those have had some time to percolate in the business-owner-guru-strategist side of your brain. I’d like you to thoughtfully consider the new questions I’m raising today. Please do consider these six issues as you work through growing your Restaurant business — […]
Something a little different for you today. A quiz you’ll actually find useful (unlike all those BuzzFeed ones about which vegetable are you most like). Taking a minute to examine your small business’s health this time of year will help shape how you reach for your goals the rest of 2023. And speaking of the […]
It’s February and love is in the air. (So are taxes. And Super Bowls.) Flowers and chocolates showed up on desks and countertops this week with sweet little romantic notes. Restaurants set those sweetheart menus for their in-love diners. And if you’re one of the “lucky” ones with heart eyes for that special someone, you […]
The big day is almost here. The Super Bowl. And maybe you’re not paying attention because you don’t really care about football, but here’s why you should… The weeks leading up to the Super Bowl — and of course, the event itself — mean big money for not only the NFL but also the plethora […]
January is done and dusted. Congratulations on making it through the first month of the year with all the pressures weighing on you. As you process your month-end close reports and start looking to February, remember that this is your opportunity to get a better picture of your financial health so you can turn the […]
Saw this on Twitter recently: See, solid bookkeeping is the most functional and crucial element of your business (besides making sales). If you don’t know what’s happening with money coming in and going out, you’re not funneling and arranging things in an organized system, you’re not analyzing the data and seeing the story behind the […]
Remembering and honoring Martin Luther King this week has me thinking once again about being a voice. It’s hard not to get inspired listening to the iconic words of the famous I Have a Dream speech (if you’ve never listened to the entire speech, it’s worth the listen — and it’s shorter than most people realize). […]
