Archive for May, 2007

Team Coaching

Want To Achieve Greater Results in Your Business Through the Leaders of Your Business?

Great leaders get great results; without dynamic leadership, businesses will not grow and succeed.

Give Your Leaders What They Need!
Today’s workforce responds to leadership that follows a Coaching model; gone is yesterday’s top-down managerial hierarchy. Today’s successful leaders work with their teams to provide vision and to set goals, as well as to encourage involvement and accountability.

With Restaurant Coaching Solutionsâ„¢ you have the opportunity to benchmark this world-class approach to leadership. I will Coach your team in the fundamental leadership philosophies behind some of the greatest and most successful restaurant brands in the world today and they will understand specifically, the principles that need to be at the core of your businesses strength.

We will show them how to…

• Interpret the business vision for your team and communicate that vision in a way that motivates action.

• Examine the culture of those they lead and structure them in a way that maximizes their involvement.

• Employ strategies that will enable your team to take a proactive approach toward change.

• Identify the specific leadership values and behaviors that will contribute to their success as a leader.

• Implement your own action plan so that your vision, goals and leadership development complement one another.

Learn more about how you can drive your team’s performance through our newest and best Coaching program. Go here!

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“What’s The Difference…

…between advertising, marketing and sales?”

It’s a question I answer almost once a day.  Here is what Andrea says….

Oh and “yes”, you are in the sales business too!

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101 Ways To Market Your Small Business

I have been reading Andrea Morris for a while now, but have just now got around to catching up on her blog. This is a one of the many good posts I thought I’d share with you.

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Are you reading enough?

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Great Offer Available To Dallas Operator

I have a client who is looking for an operator to take over the management contract for a Fortune 500 company’s food service program in the Dallas area.

This is a tremendous opportunity for the established operator who is looking to expand into multiple income streams or the operator who is looking for a turnkey operation with a huge upside.

The operation’s only expenses are labor and food, since the Fortune 500 company owns the building and equipment. The income potential on such a fixed-cost operation is limited only by your ability to execute the food service operations on a campus of 1,000 staffers.

For information on this opportunity, please send an email to me at Jeffrey@RestaurantCoachingSolutions.com

All inquiries will be kept strictly confidential.

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Results of Research Institute Study Announced at NRA Show

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The restaurant industry is becoming recession proof due to increased pricing power over consumers, according to 2007 data from the Kanbay Research Institute (KRI). Although revenue growth is up in the restaurant industry same store sales growth is down, indicating that continued location expansion is not necessarily a winning strategy. The study, “Restaurant Demand 2007: Consumers Insights to Give Competitive Edge,” found that the top 86% of the restaurant and beverage companies studied have experienced a decrease in Win Ratings signifying the need to identify and respond to core consumer desires.

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (NASDAQ:CBRL), Ruth’s Chris Steak House (NASDAQ:RUTH), Corona and Starbucks have been spotlighted in the report to showcase their standings as part of consumers’ most desired Restaurant and Beverage Companies of 2007. Starbucks and Cracker Barrel are the only restaurants to make the top-desired list. They excel in providing an experience, not just a meal, and remain consistent to a business strategy that appropriately blends restaurant and retail.

The study also identifies the most competitive companies in the industry, which are those that have the strongest moat ratings and highest ROIC. Much opportunity exists for competitive advantage to be built in delivery chain to “lock-in” customers and “lock-out” competitors.

“Investor Warren Buffet coined the term ’moat’ to define how companies must create a barrier to entry in order to protect their profits,” said Gary A. Williams, President of the KRI. “Our analysis of five years worth of consumer and financial data shows that to achieve an economic moat, companies build a consumer moat first.”

Through five years of consumer interviews and financial analysis Gary A. Williams, President and Founder of KRI, and his research team have identified a core set of principles that create and build competitive advantage across six different industries. Williams announced the results of the 2007 Restaurant & Beverage study at NRA’s Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show on May 19^th, 2007.

The report, “Restaurant Demand 2007: Consumers Insights to Give Competitive Edge,” is sponsored by Capgemini U.S. LLC, an affiliate of Adjoined Consulting LLC, of which KRI is an operating unit. To download a free copy of the report, go to https://www.kanbayresearch.com/nra2007.php.

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NPD: QSRS SHOULD PUMP UP VALUE MEALS AS GAS PRICES RISE

With gas prices inching upwards as the warmer months approach, savvy operators should be rolling out value meals or improving their current offerings, officials at the NPD Group say. New data collected by the Port Washington, N.Y.-based global market research firm reveals that quick-service operators with value/dollar menus are well positioned to profit despite possible penny pinching by consumers. The growing number of casual dinnerhouses paring down their entrée portions might be doing themselves a favor.

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RESTAURANTS FACE 7.5% PAYROLL TAX UNDER NEW CALIF. HEALTHCARE PLAN

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Democratic lawmakers have proposed a healthcare-reform plan that would require restaurants and other employers to spend the equivalent of at least 7.5 percent of their payrolls on healthcare.

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Consumer Preferences - “Health”

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Is Three a Crowd in Service?

by Jessica Sebor

About one-fifth of consumers now seek third-party advice first for service problems, according to a new report from Jupiter, which helps uncover how this new consumer behavior can best be served.

Full Story: http://www.destinationcrm.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=6895

“Copyright 2007, CRM magazine/destinationCRM.com”

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Check This Out

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