MANAGING
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6 September 2020 at 07 : 27 AM
You’re Not in the Restaurant Business
MANAGING FOR SUCCESS By CONSTANTINE N. KOLITSAS Business Coach COVID-19 or no COVID-19, you’re no longer in the restaurant business. You may run a restaurant, but if you want to optimize your earnings, you need to come to the realization that the primary business you are in is not food. Sure, you serve food, but you sellsomething ...
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6 April 2020 at 05 : 14 AM
Don’t Be Cheap
MANAGING FOR SUCCESS By CONSTANTINE N. KOLITSAS Business Coach The title of this month’s column is a bit crass, but it fits because in it we will be addressing our instincts, which can sometimes be crass. As restaurant owners we understand that success is largely predicated on our ability to contain costs and squeeze as much value from every nickel ...
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9 March 2020 at 16 : 55 PM
Restaurant Improvements via Personal Improvement
MANAGING FOR SUCCESS By CONSTANTINE N. KOLITSAS Business Coach It may be a cliché, but they aren’t clichés by accident: You are only as good as your people. For this reason, large companies put a great deal of time into training, educating, developing, and improving their people. In the restaurant workplace, it seems that this is an area that we ...
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18 January 2020 at 09 : 21 AM
Hire People You Like
MANAGING FOR SUCCESS by CONSTANTINE N. KOLITSAS Business Coach I’ve hired hundreds (possibly thousands) of people through the course of my career as a restaurant manager, owner, multi-unit director of operations, and consultant. And if there’s one part of the job I’ve always hated, it is without question hiring staff (both front-of-the-house and ...
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16 December 2019 at 05 : 06 AM
Constant, Gentle Pressure
MANAGING FOR SUCCESS By CONSTANTINE N. KOLITSAS Business Coach Ι tell them the same things over and over every day, and they still don’t do it right.” The complaint is one I hear over and over every day, and still, the managers and owners aren’t getting it—there are ways to get through to staff members and ways to create barriers that ...
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7 November 2019 at 07 : 02 AM
Πατεράδες, Γιοι και ο Cat Stevens
ΣΤΟΧΕΥΟΝΤΑΣ ΤΗΝ ΕΠΙΤΥΧΙΑ Του ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ N. ΚΟΛΙΤΣΑ Business Coach Ως σύμβουλος εστιατορίων -με πολλούς Ελληνοαμερικανούς πελάτες- βλέπω το ίδιο σκηνικό να επαναλαμβάνεται: Δυσαρέσκεια ανάμεσα σε ...
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10 October 2019 at 07 : 19 AM
Πυρ, Στοχεύσατε, Έτοιμοι
ΣΤΟΧΕΥΟΝΤΑΣ ΤΗΝ ΕΠΙΤΥΧΙΑ Του ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ N. ΚΟΛΙΤΣΑ, Business Coach Είναι γεγονός ότι ο μελλοντικός προγραμματισμός δεν «αγκαλιάζεται» πάντα από την βιομηχανία των εστιατορίων. Πολύ συχνά οι ...
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10 September 2019 at 03 : 06 AM
Hire Smart, Hire Right
MANAGING FOR SUCCESS By CONSTANTINE N. KOLITSAS Business Coach Hiring is an area where typical restaurant managers fail repeatedly. With so many things a manager has going on—managing labor and food costs, keeping staff up to standards, performing marketing tasks, managing vendors, monitoring food safety protocols—it’s no wonder that hiring is often ...
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12 August 2019 at 10 : 15 AM
When You Want to Cash In Your Chip
MANAGING FOR SUCCESS By CONSTANTINE N. KOLITSAS Business Coach WE all know that a nice kitchen and nice bathrooms add value to our homes; that a fresh paint job, a manicured lawn, and updated hardware on its doors and cabinets will help inflate a home’s value ahead of a purchase. But it seems this formula is not translating to our businesses: A ...
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