The Restaurant Owners Uncorked video series continues! Joe Johnston talks about the importance of the “two creations” while planning your restaurant, and how you can eliminate (most of) the risk. (If you are reading this in an email and you can’t see the video, click here to watch it) Joe is one of the smartest […]
Read MoreWes and I have an idea for a restaurant. I have no idea if we’ll ever do it, but if we do, I’m confident we’ll run it very similarly to how we run Schedulefly. Just as we currently focus on having a very simple, high quality, carefully designed software, I’m confident our restaurant menu would […]
Read MoreIn the summer of 1984 I was 10 years old and I went to a month-long sports camp. During that month I learned what would turn out to be two of the most valuable lessons of my life. 144 boys ages 10-13 attended the camp, and we were divided into 12 teams of 12 boys. […]
Read MorePeople that are exploring online restaurant employee scheduling software options occasionally send us an email that reads something like this, “I’m looking for an employee scheduling software for our restaurant. How do you compare to your competitor “XYZ scheduling software”? “XYZ” could be one of many of the companies that provide online employee scheduling software. […]
Read MoreLast night I was watching “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives” (DD&D) and I was fascinated with the wonderfully unique places featured in each episode. Most of restaurants featured on that show have been around for many years. Sometimes for decades. And they’ve all established themselves as institutions in their communities. As I was watching I remembered […]
Read MoreChip Bair owns Beau Jo’s, a very successful pizza restaurant group with 8 locations in Colorado and Idaho. When I interviewed Chip for our book, he told me a story I’ll never forget. In 1973 he quit his job and purchased a pizza restaurant in Idaho Springs, CO. He didn’t have much money, he wasn’t […]
Read MoreToday I ate lunch with Shawn Wilfong, owner of two extremely popular, well-respected restaurants here in Charlotte (Mortimer’s and Leroy Fox). Shawn is going to be a part of our Restaurant Owners Uncorked video series, and having spent two hours with him today, I absolutely can’t wait to film him. He is one helluva sharp […]
Read MoreWe have tons of great content from the interviews we did in Gilbert, AZ. (Here’s a post about the trip along with some pics). One of the most interesting topics Joe Johnston talked about was minimizing the risk involved with opening restaurants by planning extremely well. Joe and his partners plan as much or more […]
Read More“Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way….” I’d love to hug the narrator of this – Alan Watts. Have a listen. Wes
Read MoreYesterday I spoke with a company that provides a web-based software designed for independent restaurants. It’s not a competitive product to Schedulefly. In fact it could be a complimentary product if we intended to integrate with other products (we don’t). Anyway, the company hoped we might consider promoting the product to our customers as part […]
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