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Think hiring a restaurant manager will free up your time and boost profits?

Think again.

Many restaurant owners watch sales tank, staff turnover explode, and food costs spiral out of control - often within months - because they made one fatal management mistake.

In this episode of Restaurant Growth Accelerator, I share my personal story of opening a second location, hiring a manager, and watching my once-successful business collapse.

You’ll hear exactly how promoting the wrong person - without proper restaurant management training - led to burnout, lost staff, and more.

Tune in to discover:

✅The critical difference between worker skills vs. management skills most owners overlook

✅Why promoting your best worker can create your worst manager

✅How to hire restaurant managers who WILL do the job (not just those who CAN do it)

✅A proven 6 to 8-month restaurant manager training program that builds real leadership skills

✅The anonymous employee survey system that reveals hidden management problems before they explode

You’ll learn how to set management expectations, run performance evaluations, and build a restaurant management system that works in any multi-location or independent restaurant.

Key Points

00:00:20 Manager Disaster Story
00:01:40 Second Location Opening Chaos
00:04:00 Manager Demands Raise
00:07:40 Worker Skills vs Manager Skills
00:11:00 Burger Production Math Example
00:14:20 Setting Management Expectations
00:18:40 Anonymous Employee Surveys
00:23:40 Hiring "Will Do" vs "Can Do"
00:31:00 Systemizing Soft Skills Training

Whether you’re hiring your first manager or trying to fix a failing one, this episode gives you restaurant leadership skills you need to prevent burnout, reduce staff turnover, and create a business that runs without you.

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✅About Us✅

The Restaurant Growth Accelerator Podcast is hosted by Andrew Scott - founder of OwnerShift Training.

Andrew Scott successfully scaled his restaurant business to 4 locations while working a handful of hours each week. He’s since helped over 1,000 restaurant owners increase their sales, profits, and free time - and he’d love to help you too.

✅For Restaurant Owners✅

Interested in growing your restaurant business while working less? Book your free assessment call:
👉 Restaurant Assessment Call

✅Connect With Us✅

https://www.facebook.com/groups/multiunitempirebuilders/
https://www.instagram.com/andrewrichardscott
https://ownershifttraining.com/

If your restaurant’s bank account is in the red while your staff just cashed their paychecks, you’re not alone… and it can be fixed.

In this episode, you’ll learn why so many restaurant owners end up the lowest-paid person in their own business. And more importantly, exactly how to fix it without taking on another soul-crushing merchant cash advance.

We bust the dangerous myth that simply boosting sales will solve your problems - and show why reducing your restaurant prime cost by just 10% can put far more money in your pocket than increasing sales by the same amount.

Tune in to discover:

✅The exact restaurant break-even analysis Andrew used to save his business when he couldn’t pay rent

✅Unique labor cost control strategies that prevent scheduling mistakes and increase restaurant profitability

✅The simple portion control test that exposed a cook using twice the protein everyone else did

✅The “perfect salad” visual control trick to keep your team consistent without slowing service.

✅How to run a restaurant expense audit that asks, “Is this making me money?” - and cuts the waste that’s bleeding your cash flow.

Key Points

00:00:00 Opening Reality Check
00:02:20 Business vs Charity
00:03:40 Breaking Even Analysis
00:07:20 Labor Productivity Planning
00:10:00 Prime Cost Calculations
00:14:40 Cashflow vs Profit
00:17:00 Merchant Cash Advances
00:21:00 Menu Pricing Strategy
00:25:00 Tracking What Matters
00:27:40 Portion Control Testing
00:31:20 Visual Control Methods
00:35:00 Expense Audit Process

Stop being the last person to get paid in your own restaurant. Apply these proven restaurant cost control strategies and finally flip the script on who’s really making money in your business.

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✅Tools For Restaurant Owners✅

Thinking of opening another restaurant? Avoid costly mistakes with my free guide:
👉https://hs.ownershifttraining.com/optin-mupb

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✅About Us✅

The Restaurant Growth Accelerator Podcast is hosted by Andrew Scott - founder of OwnerShift Training.

Andrew Scott successfully scaled his restaurant business to 4 locations while working a handful of hours each week. He’s since helped over 1,000 restaurant owners increase their sales, profits, and free time - and he’d love to help you too.

✅For Restaurant Owners✅

Interested in growing your restaurant business while working less? Book your free assessment call:
👉 Restaurant Assessment Call

✅Connect With Us✅

https://www.facebook.com/groups/multiunitempirebuilders/
https://www.instagram.com/andrewrichardscott
https://ownershifttraining.com/

Every restaurant owner knows that sinking feeling when their phone explodes with problems before they’ve even had their morning coffee...

But what if those daily fires are actually a roadmap to the real issues killing your restaurant operations?

In this episode, you’ll uncover a powerful, systematic framework to identify the root causes of your restaurant’s challenges - so you can solve the problems permanently.

Instead of endlessly managing symptoms - like staff calling out, customer complaints, or product quality issues - you’ll learn how to focus on restaurant leadership strategies that fix the core problem, making multiple headaches vanish at once.

We’ll break down why so many restaurant staffing issues are actually training failures in disguise, and how dialing in your processes will transform your bottom line.

This episode also tackles delegation for restaurant owners who feel like they’re answering every silly question, every single shift.

We share the “seven magic words” that train your team to think independently and build stronger problem-solving skills - a crucial move for multi-unit restaurant owners who want more free time.

Key moments:

00:02:20 The Walk-In Whiteboard Strategy
00:04:00 Finding Problem Commonalities
00:08:00 The Root Cause Question
00:09:40 Symptoms vs Problems
00:13:00 The Engagement Mind Trick
00:17:20 Delegation Without Leadership Teams
00:21:00 The Seven-Word Solution
00:26:40 Implementation Over Planning

If you’re ready to stop feeling like a part-time firefighter and finally build a restaurant that runs itself, this episode delivers the restaurant growth framework used by top operators to create freedom and profitability.

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✅Tools For Restaurant Owners✅

Claim your FREE Restaurant Weekly Financial Tracker to uncover thousands in hidden profits and optimize your costs (in less time than it takes to finish your morning coffee): https://ghl.ownershifttraining.com/weekly-tracker-lp

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✅About Us✅

The Restaurant Growth Accelerator Podcast is hosted by Andrew Scott - founder of OwnerShift Training.

Andrew Scott successfully scaled his restaurant business to 4 locations while working a handful of hours each week. He’s since helped over 1,000 restaurant owners increase their sales, profits, and free time - and he’d love to help you too.

✅For Restaurant Owners✅

Interested in growing your restaurant business while working less? Book your free assessment call:
👉 Restaurant Assessment Call

✅Connect With Us✅

https://www.facebook.com/groups/multiunitempirebuilders/
https://www.instagram.com/andrewrichardscott
https://ownershifttraining.com/