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Performance, Perspective

Inside The Box Thinking

July 31, 2017 Jeffrey Summers No comments yet

“For the longest time, I didn’t believe in the rants of gurus who said to think outside the box.”

Growing Your Business, Profits, TOTD

Weekend Payroll Help – #TOTD

July 28, 2017 Jeffrey Summers No comments yet

If you’re waiting for Friday & Saturday to be able to make payroll – you have serious issues that need to be addressed. #20thCenturyThinking — Jeffrey Summers (@JeffreySummers) July 28, 2017

Growing Your Business, People, Performance, Profits

Labor Costs Double And Will Double Again

July 17, 2017 Jeffrey Summers No comments yet

“In the past 18 months, restaurant wages have risen at double the rate of menu prices and will double yet again in the next 18 months.”

Leadership, People, Performance

Hands-On Or Hands-Off: What Type Of Leader Is Best?

July 15, 2017 Jeffrey Summers No comments yet

“The “hands-on” approach thinking is one of the most confused and abused phrases in management today.”

Growing Your Business

The Problem With Employee Contests

July 12, 2017 Jeffrey Summers No comments yet

“It’s amazing to me even after 4 decades of service how we desire teamwork and collaboration but every policy and formal behavior is about something other than either of them.”

People, Performance, Product

4 Really Bad Training Nuggets & 1 Good One

June 23, 2017 Jeffrey Summers No comments yet

“Training, as it stands in most companies, is broken. It’s transactional at best and completely irrelevant at it’s worst.”

Leadership, People, Performance, Perspective

Bad Employees Or Bad Leadership?

June 18, 2017 Jeffrey Summers No comments yet

“I’ve never believed in “bad employees.”

People, Performance, Perspective

The Duality of Hospitality Employees

June 7, 2017 Jeffrey Summers No comments yet

“If you spend any time reading industry blogs and forums of front-line employees, you will quickly begin to see the ginormous difference in thinking between them and professional hospitality managers.”

Growing Your Business

Different Is Better

June 7, 2017 Jeffrey Summers No comments yet

“It’s very tempting to see something being done and convince yourself that you could do it a lot better.”

Product

9 Reasons Your Guest Experience Is Built To Fail

June 6, 2017 Jeffrey Summers No comments yet

“Guest experience management is not defined by intentions or even a few choice actions but by the commitment to an analytical, deliberate, organized GuestX approach.”

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