There is no doubt in our industry, there is never a shortage of things to do. 

As a closet geek, I investigate many ways of staying organized, managing projects, and in general trying to reduce stress. Certain stresses will never be avoided, but let's get into some ideas around how we stay organized & how we reduce the stress in our daily lives!

 Thanks for listening let's get into the show!

I am an eternal optimist in my opinion, but...

The restaurant industry has been decimated, and so far at least in the U.S, the numbers aren't going in the right direction.

We have been numb to the number of closings, slowdows, layoffs etc due to this pandemic.

There is no question that this situation will impact our industry for quite some time.  Lost sales, profits and key employees will continue their impact into the future.

I spoke on this in early March that as we started shutting down, it was a GREAT time to educate yourself on something new.  Even for fun or for business, it's pretty rare especially for us in the industry to have such an amount of time off.

Listen in, pretty short and raw, but perhaps it may inspire you to take action now, to expand what might be your new reality as we move ahead.

Be well, be safe...talk soon.

Chef Tony Marciante

While we recorded this in 2015, there are MANY actionable nuggets of info regarding payments in your restaurant, gift card sales and more.

Especially in this time of Corona-19, we are doing more and more in the digital space with placing online orders, contactless payments and more.

As I have continued to preach, we MUST PIVOT our business during this time, and maybe straight CHANGE our model.

We talk on Apple Pay, Compliance, online auctions, give aways and more...

We'd LOVE to hear about anything you learned here, please post up on our FaceBook Page!

We hope you and yours are staying safe during this especially challenging time, stay tough and moving forward!

Chef Tony 

RestaurantOwnerLessons.com

We have a true pleasure of interviewing Gina Gabai who's family business includes three restaurants and one salon in Rhode Island. 

Listen in as we chop up what's going on with COVID-19, her business moving forward and what advice we come up with to help you in these troubled times.

I've listed her contact information below, if anybody in the area can support her business in anyway, please reach out and tell them Chef Tony sent you!

They were written up in Cigar Aficionado this past December... the article was titled “Steakhouses for cigar lovers”... 

They have memberships for the cigar clients  and offer a cigar dinner every Wednesday night.. menu varies with season:

First and second course soup and salad

Choice of entree: steak or salmon served with starch and veg

Dessert

3 cigar sampler

All offered for $65

Tel Aviv Water

25 Bridge Street, Providence,RI 02903

Phone: 401-521-1300

www. TelAvivCigarBarandGrill.com

EMAIL:   [email protected]

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International Lounge

18 Bridge Street

Providence ,RI 02903

Friday night Salsa/open for event bookings also

Info through Tel Aviv/ ( located across the street)

Jamra lounge

680 Admiral street, Providence,RI,02908

401-272-2672

Website

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The G Salon and Spa

Marriott Providence Downtown

1 Orms street, Prov., RI  02904

401-272-8778

www.TheGSalonandSpa.com

Email:  [email protected]

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Keeping this simple, we have to not "pivot"...we have to rebuild, innovate and change for good.

Yes, it sucks.  Get over it. 

We're changed for good, quick episode, just continually sharing thoughts and realities.

Email me PLEASE... my last email will be on the show... how about you??

In this time, we have to stay together.