{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"FULL COMP: The Voice of the Restaurant Industry Revolution","title":"The Strategy of Success: Roger Beaudoin, Restaurant Rockstars","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2095,"description":"What can save this industry from absolute destruction? \nI’m betting on math and practical business fundamentals. That’s why I’ve invited Roger Beaudoin to chat on this episode. Roger has been preaching these ideals for years. He’s more than a teacher, he’s an owner and operator as well. Rather than giving us advice, he walks us through the strategy he's using to turn the pandemic into a windfall.\nClick to sign up for our weekly newsletter.\nClick here to book time on my personal calendar.\nClick here to download our Restaurant Recovery Guide.\nWant to streamline your front-of-house operations and increase sales? Head over to http://restaurants.yelp.com/fullcomppodcast to claim your free page and learn more about these powerful tools for your business.\nSHOW NOTES\n\n Building a dream team restaurant is important\n Allows you to have an exit strategy\n Allows you to have time with your family and friends\n Allows you to enjoy having a business\n Saw an opportunity when running a ski resort\n Inspired by a Switzerland bar with an international buzz\n The ski resort he ended up at needed transforming\n Sophistication\n Community\n Entertainment\n Learned the business piece by piece\n Training staff to have his back\n Controlling costs to maximize profits\n Creating a premium customer experience\n Expanding the business to one day leave it\n Technology was never Roger’s strong point\n Never has an interest in technology\n Created systems on pen and paper\n It was Roger’s wife who convinced him to have an online platform to expand the business\n Started the podcast 6 years ago\n Roger’s wife is the CTO\n Why Roger went back into restaurant operations\n New restaurant opens pre-Covid\n Investment in improvement\n Creating a business model\n Grab and Go market and cafe\n Was ideal during Covid\n Pivoting during Covid\n Covid makes everything unstable\n Taking the temperature of the room before making a decision\n Using the loans\n Redefining success\n You don’t know what...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/6OAanP6N7rKCCEP4OYgZT_i74QmCwgk2rH1cSWqhfvs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYzkz/MGQ5M2Y5MWZmM2E0/NGM3MzFmNzQ0OGZl/NDhhYi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}