In this episode of the Restaurant Rockstars podcast, host Roger Beaudoin discusses the 'Excellence Over Everything' approach with President Nina Quincy of Rex Hospitality Group. They dive into leadership, finances, team building, and guest services. Nina shares insights on hiring strategies, training practices, company culture, and maintaining quality amidst rising costs. She highlights the importance of efficiency, adapting to market changes, and innovative marketing. Real-life stories, both successful and challenging, add practical context to the conversation. Tune in for actionable ideas and inspiring success stories from the hospitality industry.

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@mavenhouston

@rexhospitalitygroup

@drink.maven

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Boost Your Restaurant Profits in 2025: Essential Tips & Strategies - In this episode of the Restaurant Rockstars podcast, host Roger Beaudoin shares actionable and proven ideas to help restaurant owners boost their bottom line. Roger covers vital topics, including inventory management, food and labor cost calculation, menu costing, and identifying your restaurant's daily break-even point. He introduces tools and templates available in the Restaurant Academy that can streamline these processes. Whether you are just starting out or looking to maximize profits in your existing business, this episode is packed with valuable insights to help you make more money in the new year!

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In this episode of the Restaurant Rockstars podcast, Roger hosts David Steele, chairman of Great Gold Hospitality Group and Flour and Water Hospitality Group. They dive into strategic planning, essential systems, staff training, leadership, accountability, marketing, and tech stacks crucial for a successful restaurant business. David shares his journey from dishwasher to finance professional to prolific restaurateur, emphasizing the importance of business principles, consistent P&Ls, and training. They also discuss the significance of proactive planning, promoting from within, managing financials, and the evolving roles of tech and marketing in the hospitality industry.

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https://www.facebook.com/david.steele.5661

https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-steele-76088a/

https://www.instagram.com/davidgsteele/

https://davidsteele.xyz/

fwhospitality.com

greatgoldtahoe.com

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Sculpture Hospitality are your restaurant’s Food & Beverage Inventory experts. Don’t leave thousands of dollars in Profit to chance when there is a simple Inventory system! Sculpture Hospitality don’t just manage your inventory, they give you a clear picture of your restaurant’s profitability. Get a no obligation FREE Inventory Consult at https://SculptureHospitality.com/rockstar

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Join us on this episode of the Restaurant RockStars podcast as we dive deep into the culinary journey of Mark, a key player in the Indigo Road Hospitality Group. From his humble beginnings as a dishwasher to becoming the Culinary Director of an esteemed hospitality group, Mark shares invaluable insights on kitchen management, culinary education, and leadership. He discusses the influence of his mentors, the importance of family meals, and the core values that drive Indigo Road's success. Mark also provides a peek into the process of opening new restaurants and maintaining high standards across multiple locations. This episode is packed with inspiration and practical advice.

We discuss:

• Mentorship and Career Growth

• Leadership Philosophy

• Hiring Philosophy: Experience vs. Attitude

• Building a Positive Company Culture

• The Importance of Family Meal

• Recognizing and Rewarding Excellence

• Financial Management in the Restaurant Industry

• Opening New Restaurant Concepts

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We will train you and your entire team to up level your business, maximize sales and optimize profits - Join the Restaurant Academy: https://restaurantrockstars.com/joinacademy

Thank you to our sponsors:

TerraSlate menus are waterproof, rip-proof, antimicrobial and easy to clean. They ship to every state and over a hundred countries with a fast 1 day turnaround and Free overnight shipping. Get your menus from TerraSlate at https://terraslate.com

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Sculpture Hospitality are your restaurant’s Food & Beverage Inventory experts. Don’t leave thousands of dollars in Profit to chance when there is a simple Inventory system! Sculpture Hospitality don’t just manage your inventory, they give you a clear picture of your restaurant’s profitability. Get a no obligation FREE Inventory Consult at https://SculptureHospitality.com/rockstar

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In this episode of the Restaurant Rockstars Podcast, I’m speaking with Adam Klaers, the Executive Vice President of legacy brand Roy Rogers Restaurants.

Listen as Adam shares:

• His approach to increasing restaurant sales transactions and growing profit

• What dining guests are seeking in these challenging restaurant times

• Marketing strategy that works in a highly competitive restaurant landscape

• Solutions to today’s restaurant labor struggles and inflation

• Menu and promotional decisions including “Limited Time Offers (LTOs)” & “Loss Leaders”

• Overcoming negative media against high Quick Serve restaurant “price perceptions”

• Creating a successful restaurant retail merchandise program

And hard-won advice for independent restaurant owners to keep their brand relevant.

Don’t miss this episode!

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It’s time to train your team to run your restaurant as if they “owned it”, with attention to detail, quality and an eye on profit. Even better It’s turn-key and you don’t have to do the training! Now, with the Restaurant Academy at https://restaurantrockstars.com/joinacademy/ , you can assign any lesson to any and all team-members to learn every aspect of running a successful restaurant. Best of all, you can track their progress and achievements from within the Academy.

It’s a restaurant Game-Changer. Get the Academy and you also get a personal call with me to discuss your restaurant challenges and solutions

Get the Academy, then go ROCK YOUR Restaurant!

Roger

Thank you to our sponsors:

Restaurant Technologies: takes care of your fry oil challenges. They handle everything end-to-end from delivering, filtering monitoring, collecting, and recycling your waste cooking oil. Restaurant Technologies customers save 10-15% on their insurance premiums and even get bonuses for any new customer referrals. https://www.rti-inc.com or call 866-399-3639 to get started today.

Sculpture Hospitality are your restaurant’s Food & Beverage Inventory experts. Don’t leave thousands of dollars in Profit to chance when there is a simple Inventory system! Sculpture Hospitality don’t just manage your inventory, they give you a clear picture of your restaurant’s profitability. Get a no obligation FREE Inventory Consult at https://SculptureHospitality.com/rockstar

TerraSlate menus are waterproof, rip-proof, antimicrobial and easy to clean. They ship to every state and over a hundred countries with a fast 1 day turnaround and Free overnight shipping. Get your menus from TerraSlate at https://terraslate.com

UberDirect: With Uber Direct, you take orders on your website, app or by phone. Then, drivers from Uber’s courier network pick them up from your place and deliver them to your customer’s doorstep. Delivery just got better with Uber Direct.

Learn more at https://www.uberdirect.com

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Yorgo has had immense career successes with some of this country’s leading restaurant companies and groups. Listen as Yorgo shares true restaurant expertise including:

• What it takes to double sales and restaurant profits

• The “Keys” to employee training, performance and retention

• Solutions to today’s restaurant labor struggles and inflation

• Delivering true hospitality, consistency and quality every shift every day

• The KPI’s and financials that every restaurant should monitor

• Proven restaurant marketing strategies

Learn the Top 3 Restaurant Profit Killers and how to fix them FREE DOWNLOAD:

https://restaurantrockstars.com/profits/

The Restaurant Academy Training System

We will train you and your entire team to up level your business, maximize sales and optimize profits - Join the Restaurant Academy: https://restaurantrockstars.com/joinacademy

Connect with us on Social Media:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-beaudoin-21590016

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• Instagram: giordanospizza

• Facebook: giordanospizza

• X: GiordanosPizza

• Tik Tok: giordanos_pizza

• https://giordanos.com

In this Restaurant Rockstars podcast episode, I interview Gui Jaroschy from Unfiltered Hospitality to discuss the critical elements that drive successful bar operations. Gui shares crazy bar stories, emphasizing the importance of hospitality as a foundational element of the business.

Learn the Top 3 Restaurant Profit Killers and how to fix them FREE DOWNLOAD:

https://restaurantrockstars.com/profits/

The Restaurant Academy Training System

We will train you and your entire team to up level your business, maximize sales and optimize profits - Join the Restaurant Academy: https://restaurantrockstars.com/joinacademy

Connect with us on Social Media:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-beaudoin-21590016

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/restaurantrockstars/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/restaurantrockstars

X: https://twitter.com/RestaurantRock1

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gui-jaroschy-005246162/

https://www.unfilteredhospo.com/

Instagram: @unfilteredhospo

Thank you to our sponsors:

Sculpture Hospitality are your restaurant’s Food & Beverage Inventory experts. Don’t leave thousands of dollars in Profit to chance when there is a simple Inventory system! Sculpture Hospitality don’t just manage your inventory, they give you a clear picture of your restaurant’s profitability. Get a no obligation FREE Inventory Consult at https://SculptureHospitality.com/rockstar

Restaurant Technologies: takes care of your fry oil challenges. They handle everything end-to-end from delivering, filtering monitoring, collecting, and recycling your waste cooking oil. Restaurant Technologies customers save 10-15% on their insurance premiums and even get bonuses for any new customer referrals. https://www.rti-inc.com or call 866-399-3639 to get started today.

TerraSlate menus are waterproof, rip-proof, antimicrobial and easy to clean. They ship to every state and over a hundred countries with a fast 1 day turnaround and Free overnight shipping. Get your menus from TerraSlate at https://terraslate.com

UberDirect: With Uber Direct, you take orders on your website, app or by phone. Then, drivers from Uber’s courier network pick them up from your place and deliver them to your customer’s doorstep. Delivery just got better with Uber Direct.

Learn more at https://www.uberdirect.com

Chef Zach dishes on the magic formula for restaurant operations including labor solutions, KPI’s to be watching, great marketing strategies & hooks that drive biz. This is a great episode!

Learn the Top 3 Restaurant Profit Killers and how to fix them FREE DOWNLOAD:

https://restaurantrockstars.com/profits/

The Restaurant Academy Training System

We will train you and your entire team to up level your business, maximize sales and optimize profits - Join the Restaurant Academy: https://restaurantrockstars.com/joinacademy

Connect with us on Social Media:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-beaudoin-21590016

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/restaurantrockstars/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/restaurantrockstars

X: https://twitter.com/RestaurantRock1

Connect with our guest:

https://linktr.ee/chefzacharyluke

@chefzacharyluke

https://www.theblvdsteakhouse.com

Thank you to our sponsors:

TerraSlate menus are waterproof, rip-proof, antimicrobial and easy to clean. They ship to every state and over a hundred countries with a fast 1 day turnaround and Free overnight shipping. Get your menus from TerraSlate at https://terraslate.com

UberDirect: With Uber Direct, you take orders on your website, app or by phone. Then, drivers from Uber’s courier network pick them up from your place and deliver them to your customer’s doorstep. Delivery just got better with Uber Direct.

Learn more at https://www.uberdirect.com

Restaurant Technologies: takes care of your fry oil challenges. They handle everything end-to-end from delivering, filtering monitoring, collecting, and recycling your waste cooking oil. Restaurant Technologies customers save 10-15% on their insurance premiums and even get bonuses for any new customer referrals. https://www.rti-inc.com or call 866-399-3639 to get started today.

Sculpture Hospitality are your restaurant’s Food & Beverage Inventory experts. Don’t leave thousands of dollars in Profit to chance when there is a simple Inventory system! Sculpture Hospitality don’t just manage your inventory, they give you a clear picture of your restaurant’s profitability. Get a no obligation FREE Inventory Consult at https://SculptureHospitality.com/rockstar

To achieve restaurant management success, create a brand and run a strong profitable business you need to know your restaurant inside out. When was the last time you got behind the bar, cooked on the line, ran the counter or even took a turn in the dish pit?

Working in the trenches gives you a fresh perspective how all the moving parts of your restaurant work together to deliver hospitality and great dining experiences for your guests.

In this episode of the Restaurant Rockstars podcast, I speak with Daniel Frazier, Director of Operations and GM of a 3-location place called Pharmacy Burger. Daniel started his career as a host, then moved up and around just about every position.

Tune in as Daniel shares his restaurant management journey as we discuss:

• Stepping into Leadership and key lessons learned from mastering nearly every restaurant position

• Hiring Criteria and Expectations - Accountability, discipline, recognition & rewards that work

• Onboarding Process - How to onboard team members for restaurant management success in every position

• Delivering true hospitality, consistency and quality every shift every day

• Financial controls and the “Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) necessary in any restaurant

• Marketing and Technology that work

And Daniel’s best advice to set yourself apart from the competition!

Don’t miss this episode!

What if you could train your team to run your restaurant as if they “owned it”, with attention to detail, quality and an eye on profit. What if this was turn-key and you didn’t have to do the training? Now, with the Restaurant Academy at https://restaurantrockstars.com/joinacademy/ , you can assign any lesson to any and all team-members to learn every aspect of running a successful restaurant. Best of all, you can track their progress and achievements from within the Academy - https://restaurantrockstars.com/joinacademy/

Get the Academy, then go ROCK YOUR Restaurant!

Roger

Connect with our guest:

1. https://thepharmacyburger.com/

2. Instagram: @thepharmacynashville

3. Facebook: facebook.com/thepharmacyburger

Thank you to our sponsors:

Sculpture Hospitality are your restaurant’s Food & Beverage Inventory experts. Don’t leave thousands of dollars in Profit to chance when there is a simple Inventory system! Sculpture Hospitality don’t just manage your inventory, they give you a clear picture of your restaurant’s profitability. Get a no obligation FREE Inventory Consult at https://SculptureHospitality.com/rockstar

TerraSlate menus are waterproof, rip-proof, antimicrobial and easy to clean. They ship to every state and over a hundred countries with a fast 1 day turnaround and Free overnight shipping. Get your menus from TerraSlate at https://terraslate.com

Restaurant Technologies: takes care of your fry oil challenges. They handle everything end-to-end from delivering, filtering monitoring, collecting, and recycling your waste cooking oil. Restaurant Technologies customers save 10-15% on their insurance premiums and even get bonuses for any new customer referrals. https://www.rti-inc.com or call 866-399-3639 to get started today.

UberDirect: With Uber Direct, you take orders on your website, app or by phone. Then, drivers from Uber’s courier network pick them up from your place and deliver them to your customer’s doorstep. Delivery just got better with Uber Direct.

Learn more at https://www.uberdirect.com

In this episode of the Restaurant Rockstars Podcast I speak with Mr. Sebastian Stahl, a marketing expert, the founder of Breadth Marketing Agency and author of 'Restaurant Marketing Insider.'

We discuss common marketing mistakes made by restaurants, the importance of effective staff training as brand ambassadors, and the need for trackable marketing. We also cover the significance of running a restaurant as a business with foundational systems such as cost controls, maximizing profit, and delivering a consistent brand experience.

Sebastian shares insights on positioning, branding, and loyalty programs, and emphasizes the need for strategic and measurable marketing campaigns. After listening to this episode, you will gain valuable advice on creating a strong restaurant brand and effective marketing strategies.

Listen as Sebastian advises and informs on everything restaurant marketing including:

• Why restaurants are continuing to fail in record numbers

• The Impressions that undermine your brand and mistakes restaurants make

• What’s “Positioning” all about

• How to stay relevant with today’s diners

• A marketing rule of thumb for spending as a percentage of sales

• Social Media what to post, where, when and how often

• The importance and how to’s of Promotions

• Loyalty programs and building your restaurant repeat business

Marketing is important, but not at the expense of Profit. Your restaurant needs both. My Restaurant Profit Maximizer course will show you immediately actionable ways you can boost your restaurant’s bottom line!

Get it at www.restaurantrockstars.com/profitmaximizer

It’s a restaurant Game-Changer.

Now go ROCK YOUR Restaurant!

Roger

Connect with our guest:

His podcast: https://restaurantleadersunplugged.buzzsprout.com/

His book: https://a.co/d/4Jo37qP

Social media links: Instagram, LinkedIn

https://breadthmarketing.com

Thank you to our sponsors:

Restaurant Technologies: takes care of your fry oil challenges. They handle everything end-to-end from delivering, filtering monitoring, collecting, and recycling your waste cooking oil. Restaurant Technologies customers save 10-15% on their insurance premiums and even get bonuses for any new customer referrals. https://www.rti-inc.com or call 866-399-3639 to get started today.

UberDirect: With Uber Direct, you take orders on your website, app or by phone. Then, drivers from Uber’s courier network pick them up from your place and deliver them to your customer’s doorstep. Delivery just got better with Uber Direct.

Learn more at https://www.uberdirect.com

Sculpture Hospitality are your restaurant’s Food & Beverage Inventory experts. Don’t leave thousands of dollars in Profit to chance when there is a simple Inventory system! Sculpture Hospitality don’t just manage your inventory, they give you a clear picture of your restaurant’s profitability. Get a no obligation FREE Inventory Consult at https://SculptureHospitality.com/rockstar

TerraSlate menus are waterproof, rip-proof, antimicrobial and easy to clean. They ship to every state and over a hundred countries with a fast 1-day turnaround and Free overnight shipping. Get your menus from TerraSlate at https://terraslate.com