What is the Pareto principle?  Simply put it is the law of 80/20.  80% of your problems come from 20% of your situations.  You wear 20% of the cloths you own 80% of the time.  How can we as restaurant owners or entrepreneurs take advantage of this principle and apply it to our own lives?

Hey if it's your first time here my name is Kostas Lazanas I am the owner of Opa! Greek Taverna and Real Restaurant Radio.  I'm joined by my best friend and cohost Cary Hodson!  If you like this podcast, consider subscribing to our channel.  If you want to know more about us check out www.RealrestaurantRadio.com

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Cary and Kostass discuss the importance of of choosing the right concept and service style to offer for your concept.  Intrinsic is counter service while Opa! is full service.  We hope you enjoyed listening as much as we enjoyed putting this together!

Intrinsic recently launched Lupulin Kloud IPA and Carry brought one over for us to sip on while we talk about food purveyors.  Restaurant Depot launched a delivery system using a 3rd party company to get food directly to us.  We also chat about brunch and why pork is not that popular where we are.  Overall just another amazing episode of Real Restaurant Radio!

Today we are celebrating Cary's sucessful 3 year anniversary!  We talk about food vendors and other supporting companies that allow our restaurant to be successful.  We dab in a few catering tips and talk about new online ordering platforms.  We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoy talking.  We would love to hear from our amazing audience.

We talk about some upcoming events happening around town.  More importantly we talk about location.  Cary is located in the heart of down town garland and Kostas is located off a major road.  When you decide to choose a location its very important to do some real research.  eat at every restaurant in the area look at their price points if you can figure out their sales from a manager that is also helpful.  Some times looks can be misleading.  Opa has a ton more cars drive past it every day however Intrinsic is in a nostalgic downtown area.    

In this episode we talk about what to expect from the health department.  Every inspector is different find out our secret to success.

Cary brought over the Garland Guzzler and Kostas brought his smoke gun.  We talk about Special event planning.  Employee reviews and more.  Just a ton of fun and knowledge poured into this one.  Enjoy!!

Find out about Autumn Ales, Oktoberfest festivals and how you as a restaurant owner can hedge against the slowest quarter in the restaurant year.

People are the most complex part of running a successful business.  If you can win the people game the rest mostly falls into place.  

Kostas Lazanas just got back from Florida and Cary Hodson goes off to The Great Amercian Beer Festival.  What do we do to ensure that our restaurants are running smoothly without the owner.  Security cameras.  Apps. Secret shoppers and more.