How To Read A Free Diagnostic Before You Feed It Your Restaurant
Every operator inbox in this industry now runs the same offer at a higher and higher frequency: the free diagnostic. Free menu audit. Free labor read. Free operations checkup. Free AI-driven benchmarking. Free 15-minute call. Free tool that will "analyze your restaurant" and hand you back "opportunities to optimize." The offers read as generosity. Most ... Read more
Administered Pricing Without A Pricing Department: What Independent Operators Actually Face
The pricing-strategy literature is written for the wrong audience. It is written for pricing strategists, pricing consultants, and pricing decision-makers inside organizations that have pricing departments, pricing dashboards, pricing software stacks, and pricing authority tiers. Every framework in the field — administered pricing, demand-based pricing, algorithmic pricing, dynamic pricing, value-based pricing — is engineered for ... Read more
The Tool Stack Is Not A Framework
There is a documented industry position on how restaurants should be run right now, and it has been arriving in monthly installments across an eight-article series in one of the trade publications this year. I am not going to name the author or the outlet. It does not matter. The series is not the point. ... Read more