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Running Restaurants

RunningRestaurants.comwww.runningrestaurants.com

Running a restaurant is one of the most exhilarating yet challenging ventures out there. Every day, passionate restaurateurs pour their hearts into delivering dining experiences that both excite customers & simultaneously drive profits to the bottom line. But how can restaurants do both even better?

Welcome to Running Restaurants, the podcast exploring actionable tips, valuable resources, and interesting insights every restaurant owner can easily implement in their own businesses. Whether you want your food venture to be more profitable, renowned, or enticing to many, we discuss every single strategy that could make your goals a reality.

Tune in to insightful discussions with restaurant industry experts, business gurus, and food professionals about what it takes to bring your venture to the next level. Whether you are running a casual dining, quick service, table service, fine dining, or food bar, this podcast offers everything you need to hone the way you run your restaurant.

Find out how to better market your place, increase your audience reach, and eventually turn your brand into a go-to or household name. Understand how to leverage the immense power of social media for your promotional campaigns in today’s ever-increasing digital world. Learn the best customer service strategies to keep everyone satisfied and longing for more. Discover how to develop your menu, keep it fresh and interesting, and make it suitable for a wide range of diets and food preferences.

This podcast also explores the complex business aspects behind the scenes that require your utmost attention. Learn how to hire and maintain the most talented individuals, decrease food waste, eliminate internal theft, and comply with all legal matters to keep your restaurant up and running. Become more knowledgeable about finances and accounting, going in-depth about keeping restaurants highly profitable. Understand how to strike the perfect balance between good food and good revenue.

This show provides solutions to the biggest and most common problems encountered by many in the restaurant industry. This is your chance to finally address low-profit margins, high food costs, and labor challenges. This is your opportunity to improve your business management tactics, staff training methods, and overall workplace culture. And of course, this is the best place to answer your technology and marketing questions, giving you a better edge in navigating the competition in this digital age. 

Hosting the podcast is Jaime Oikle, owner of the restaurant content provider Running Restaurants. Through this online website and its sister platforms, he is able to deliver valuable resources and the latest news to help restaurant owners constantly deliver outstanding local dining experiences for more than 25 years. His website contains more than 1200 articles and 75 hours of seminar or webinar sessions.

Jaime’s reason for being is to help restaurant owners succeed and thrive. He is deeply passionate about providing as many resources as possible to guide them toward business success. Jaime leads every podcast episode with the goal of extracting the most helpful information and tips that prove useful in building and maintaining a well-rounded and efficient food venture.

Whatever kind of restaurant you are running, equip yourself with the right knowledge to keep it up and running, as well as ensure its straight path towards success. Discover the latest, dive deep into the complexities, and win big in this difficult yet rewarding industry. And if some obstacles and hurdles hinder you from achieving the restaurant of your dreams, let Jaime reveal what you must do to get rid of the problems along your path. The biz is fun, yet far from easy, and this is the podcast to support and help you out!

Listen to Running Restaurants at www.runningrestaurants.com.

 

 

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Episodes

41: Restaurant Dirt: Ep06 - Costly Oversights

These were some major mess ups that cost money and customers. Jaime Oikle of RunningRestaurants.com & Roger Beaudoin of Restaurant Rockstars share several serious oversights that cost the business big time. Tune in to see what lessons can be learned to improve your restaurant. Make sure you to Subscribe on YouTube, iTunes & Google Play to not miss a future episode. Find more on RunningRestaurants.com at https://www.runningrestaurants.com & SalesStars at https://bit.ly/2q4ksni....

May 15, 201813 min

40: Restaurant Dirt: Ep05 - Marketing Gone Awry

There's nothing like making your customers mad when running a promo. Jaime Oikle of RunningRestaurants.com & Roger Beaudoin of Restaurant Rockstars share a tale of how not to run a marketing promotion. Tune in to see what lessons can be learned to improve your restaurant. Make sure you to Subscribe on YouTube, iTunes & Google Play to not miss a future episode. Find more on RunningRestaurants.com at https://www.runningrestaurants.com & SalesStars at https://bit.ly/2q4ksni.

May 15, 201810 min

39: Restaurant Dirt: Ep04 - Punch Clock Pranks

You're potentially losing dollars from false punch tactics and other tricks. Jaime Oikle of RunningRestaurants.com & Roger Beaudoin of Restaurant Rockstars talk about what you can do about it. Tune in to see what lessons can be learned to improve your restaurant. Make sure you to Subscribe on YouTube, iTunes & Google Play to not miss a future episode. Find more on RunningRestaurants.com at https://www.runningrestaurants.com & SalesStars at https://bit.ly/2q4ksni.

May 15, 201818 min

38: Protect Your Profits: Discovering Restaurant Scams

So many ways for your profits to disappear! It's critical to get everything right in a tight margin business. Jaime Oikle from RunningRestaurants.com talks with Don Potter of Pinnacle Hospitality Systems about helping restaurants uncover the little things that are stealing profits from their business. They dig into Don's new book "Restaurateur - Protect Your Profits -- Discover Restaurant Scams and Technology Solutions" and cover a variety of topics, including: 1) The warnings signs for new &amp...

Apr 24, 201828 min

37: Restaurant Leasing Tips to Make or Break Your Business

There are the things that you just don't want to get wrong! Your restaurant lease is one of those things... Unfortunately, it's common for restaurant operators to make mistakes when it's time to negotiate their lease or lease renewal. Jaime Oikle from RunningRestaurants.com talks with Dale Willerton, The Lease Coach, about a number of key restaurant leasing tips that can absolutely make or break your business. They hit on... 1) What the right time is to start the lease renewal process 2) The typ...

Apr 16, 201825 min

36: Restaurant Dirt: Ep03 - Training Fiasco

Here's a training story that will make you cringe! Jaime Oikle of RunningRestaurants.com & Roger Beaudoin of Restaurant Rockstars share a restaurant training story gone seriously awry. Tune in to see what lessons can be learned and how to get training and team building right at your restaurant. Make sure you to Subscribe on YouTube, iTunes & Google Play to not miss a future episode. Find more on RunningRestaurants.com at https://www.runningrestaurants.com & SalesStars at https://bit....

Apr 04, 201820 min

35: Restaurant Lessons: Mark McDonnell on 27+ Years Building His Business

Jaime Oikle from RunningRestaurants.com talks with Mark McDonnell of LaSalle Grill in South Bend, IN about his 27+ years running various restaurant businesses. Even though Mark and his restaurant is a Four Diamond Award winner 22 years in a row now we talk about what it takes to keep pushing the business forward after all these years. Including: 1) How Mark got started in the business and how LaSalle came to be 2) Today vs. yesteryears and how things keep changing 3) The appeal of local products...

Apr 02, 20181 hr 6 min

33: Community, Culture & Character: Three C's That Can Lead to Success in the Restaurant Business

Jaime Oikle of RunningRestaurants.com talks with old high school friend Craig DeOrio of Fibber Mcgee's Bar & Grill in Beverly, MA about what's working in his business. Craig will absolutely pull you in with his story telling (get ready for the biker and old lady story). Other stuff touched on includes: 1) How to be part of the community by supporting causes you care about 2) How to use deals to drive early week sales 3) Using social media to build event traffic 4) Being the driving force for...

Mar 16, 201842 min

32: Getting More Customers with the Social Platforms: Bruce Irving of SmartPizzaMarketing.com

Jaime Oikle from RunningRestaurants.com interviews Bruce Irving of SmartPizzaMarketing.com. Practical tips for social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and more geared to getting your restaurant or bar more customers. I 100% guarantee that you'll learn some new stuff in this call! Tips include... 1) Bruce's top three focus areas right now 2)Getting hashtags right 3) What's going on with "stories" and why you need to use them 4) Content planning and video strategies 5) Facebo...

Mar 13, 201828 min

31: From Hostess to Manager to Owner: Daniela Marcone of Andiamo in Austin, TX

Jaime Oikle from RunningRestaurants.com speaks with Daniela Marcone from Andiamo in Austin, Texas. Daniela's story is wonderful and her passion is contagious. They hit on a handful of key insights that can help restaurants boost their profits, including: Having the courage and belief to take the big leap of becoming an owner ** The power of community marketing to drive neighborhood sales & awareness for independent restaurants ** An awesome staff outing idea that can be good for all ** How t...

Mar 07, 201833 min

30: Secrets Inside Your Restaurant Biz

Jaime Oikle from RunningRestaurants.com pushes Darren Dennington from Service With Style to reveal a wide variety of key tactics that he uses with clients to drive their successful results. Such as: 1) How restaurant teams can be dysfunctional 2) Ways to build real trust with your managers & staff 3) Insights to hiring and developing your team 4) How identifying priorities can be a key driver for your business 5) What the four areas you have to get right in your restaurant are 6)Why the firs...

Feb 27, 201858 min

29: Restaurateur Deep Dive: Elliot Schiffer from Mici Handcrafted Italian

Jaime dives deep into the business with Elliot Schiffer, Chief Executive Officer at Mici Handcrafted Italian, which is a four-unit fast casual chain based out of Denver, CO. In a far reaching conversation encompassing, digital, social, mobile, delivery, people, community, growth strategies and more, Jaime & Elliot hit on a variety of key aspects to running a successful restaurant operation.

Feb 22, 201857 min

28: Restaurant - Dirt - Ep02 - Audio - V2

Jaime & Roger relive some potentially costly mistakes in the business and talk about ways for your restaurant to avoid similar situations in the future.

Feb 16, 201823 min

22: Restaurant Leasing Pitfalls & Secrets

Dale Willerton unleashes a leasing 101 course in this session filled with tips, advice and lessons to save restaurant operators big bucks when leasing.

Jan 09, 201831 min

8 Things to Say to Your Restaurant Staff Today (Ep 19)

Jaime from RunningRestaurants.com interviews Roger from RestaurantRockstarts.com about 8 key things to cover with your staff for better service to increase restaurant sales & profits.

Jul 21, 201721 minEp. 19

16: 17 Pet Peeves About Your Restaurant

Must listen track featuring Roger and Jaime discussing a large list of pet peeves that you better hope your restaurant is not guilty of.

May 15, 201736 min

Restaurant Management Roundtable - Cost Controls

The roundtable crew digs in on controlling costs at your restaurant. You've got to watch your costs! The Roundtable crew shares tips on systems to control your costs and make more profits.

May 10, 20171 hr 1 min
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