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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

The State of Restaurant Insurance (2022) (Ep 161)

Jaime Oikle of RunningRestaurants.com visits with David DeLorenzo of Bar & Restaurant Insurance on the state of insurance for restaurants here in 2022. I always enjoy talking to "DeLo." David's terrific. Loves the biz and is a great resource for his clients. We quickly covered a bunch of topics in the episode and I love the segment on "creative destruction" which applies to all businesses. Check it out... Find out more at https://www.barandrestaurantinsurance.com & https://www.runningres...

Apr 12, 202222 minEp. 161

Restaurant Tech Talk: Effective Websites And The Power Of Delivery (Ep 160)

I had fun chatting with Adam Garfield, VP of Restaurants at WIX. Wix is best known for easy to build websites so for sure we talked about that. But I also probed Adam on what's new with effective restaurant websites and it's amazing where things have come. I date myself in the episode when I talk about building websites with code by hand back 20+ years ago, but so much is different these days. We shared website tips and dug into Wix's new partner program called DoorDash Drive which lets restaura...

Apr 04, 202222 minEp. 160

Restaurant Tech Talk: AI Delivering Profits With Dave Dittenber Of BYOD (Ep 158)

Great episode with Dave Dittenber, CEO of BYOD on how their AI tech is helping restaurant operate more profitably. In addition to running a tech company Dave is an operator of several concenpts in Michigan so he's dealing with all the same issues and challenges that you face at your restaurant. We got into... - How Dave grew up in and fell in love with the restaurant business - How COVID has impacted their various operations - Ways they pivoted and adapted to successfully navigate the crisis - T...

Feb 03, 202221 minEp. 158

Restaurant Labor Crunch: Episode 13 - Be the "Employer of Choice" (Ep 157)

Jaime Oikle from RunningRestaurants.com interviews Mark McDonnell of LaSalle Hospitality for the "Cracking the Restaurant Labor Crunch" program. Long-time operator McDonnell shares loads of wisdom in this labor crunch interview. 20+ more episodes at https://restaurantlaborcrunch.com/

Jan 27, 202227 minEp. 157

Restaurant Tech Talk: Setting the Stage for Your Restaurant's Success (Ep 156)

Great episode with Savneet Singh of PAR Tech about how restaurants can best use technology today. We packed quite a bit into our @ 20 minute conversation, including... - What's the biggest hurdle in making tech work better for restaurants. - What are the important things that POS systems bring to restaurants today. - How restaurants can take better advantange of the data from their POS systems. - Key learnings around COVID as it relates to a new emphasis and focus on technology. - Trends and tip...

Jan 12, 202223 minEp. 156

154: Getting Your Restaurant Organized for the New Year

Great episode as Jaime Oikle of RunningRestaurants.com interviews Kari Hensien, President of RizePoint about what restaurants could do here in January after the craziness of the holiday season to get prepared and organized for 2022. Lots of good stuff... You don't want to miss this! Check it out.... Find out more at https://www.rizepoint.com & https://www.runningrestaurants.com.

Jan 03, 202214 min

152: Restaurant Labor Crunch: Episode 9 - Marketing Tips with Rev Ciancio

Jaime Oikle from RunningRestaurants.com interviews David "Rev" Ciancio of Branded Strategic Hospitality for the "Cracking the Restaurant Labor Crunch" program. Rev dishes out tips on what are the best things to do with your restaurant's marketing during the labor crunch. Do these things and I promise it will have an impact. 20+ more episodes at https://restaurantlaborcrunch.com/

Dec 09, 202119 min

Making Ordering Easier & More Efficient For Your Restaurant With Warner Siebert (Ep 143)

Great episode as Jaime Oikle of RunningRestaurants.com interviews Warner Siebert of Cut+Dry , which is an app for making a restaurant's operations more efficient. They have a great talk about making ordering easier and quicker, ways to make processes faster so operators can spend more time in their business. Lots of good stuff. You don't want to miss this. Check it out! Find out more at https://www.cutanddry.com and https://www.runningrestaurants.com ....

Sep 15, 202124 minEp. 143

142: Breeze: QR Code Based Ordering & Payment - Stefan Kouumdjiev

Great episode today featuring Jaime Oikle of RunningRestaurants.com along with Stefan Kouumdjiev, Co-Founder of Breeze, which is a tech company featuring QR code based ordering & payment. We actually cover quite a bit about the service process while also getting into the tech behind what they do. We also hit on: The potential to increase sales; Having less waste and mistakes; Servers saving time = more time for service; The ease of split checks & payment; and more. You don't want to miss...

Aug 25, 202133 min

141: How to Best Design Culture in Restaurants & Bars

Great episode on tap here featuring Jaime Oikle of RunningRestaurants.com along with David Friedman, CEO of Culturewise and author of "Culture By Design" and "Fundamentally Different." Perhaps your restaurant has been remiss in not taking the time to talk about culture in your business. Well, this session is guaranteed to load you up with talking points and strategies for success as we hit on: Defining the behaviors / "Fundamentals" that drive success in an organization; Creating and deploying r...

Aug 11, 202134 min

Ways To Incentivize Your Staff & Customers

Jaime Oikle of RunningRestaurants.com & Roger Beaudoin of Restaurant Rockstars jumped on a live session and talked all about ways to incentivize your staff & managers right now to keep & attract team members at your restaurant. You don't want to miss this... Find out more at https://restaurantrockstars.com/?ref=jaimeoikle & https://www.runningrestaurants.com

Jul 23, 202143 minEp. 140

139: Restaurant Marketing: How To beat 3rd Party Delivery Fees (And More Marketing Tips)

Great restaurant marketing chat in this episode as David "Rev" Ciancio of Branded Strategic Hospitality joins Jaime Oikle from RunningRestaurants.com. We hit on first party takeout and delivery ordering vs. 3rd party. database building, email and social frequency and we also walk through a bunch of successful case studies that David's worked with. You don't want to miss this...check it out... Find out more at https://www.restaurantsgrow.com/flagship-framework343hzcs-04 & https://www.runningr...

Jul 07, 202139 minEp. 139

What's Working For Restaurants Today With Kyle Inserra

Great wide-ranging restaurant biz conversation in this episode as Kyle Inserra of Sabre Advisors joins Jaime Oikle from RunningRestaurants.com. Kyle is also the host of the National Restaurant Owners Podcast. They talk about a ton of different things -- really a conversation not to miss as Kyle shares loads of valuable nuggets along the way. Check it out... Find out more at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyleinserra & https://www.runningrestaurants.com

Jun 29, 202137 minEp. 138

Selling A Restaurant In 2021

Jaime Oikle of RunningRestaurants.com & Roger Beaudoin of Restaurant Rockstars jumped on a live session and hit on the checklist of items you'll want to consider if/when selling.. Check it out... Find out more at https://restaurantrockstars.com/?ref=jaimeoikle & https://www.runningrestaurants.com .

Jun 15, 202145 minEp. 137

Finding Staff & The Decision To Sell Your Restaurant With Roger Beaudoin

Jaime Oikle of RunningRestaurants.com & Roger Beaudoin of Restaurant Rockstars jumped on a live session to talk about the pressing issue of staffing, plus Roger's recent decision to sell his restaurant. Check it out. Find out more at https://restaurantrockstars.com/?ref=jaimeoikle & https://www.runningrestaurants.com...

May 25, 202136 minEp. 136

Get To Know: Up N' Go - Touradj Barman, CEO And Co-Founder

In this episode, Jaime Oikle sits down with Touradj Barman, CEO and Co-Founder of Up N' Go , a game-changing contactless payment solution for restaurants. Discover how Up N' Go boosts efficiency, enhances customer experience, and increases table turnover—all while keeping both staff and guests safe. Touradj shares the story behind the creation of Up N' Go , their innovative approach to payment processing, and how they’re helping restaurants thrive in today’s fast-paced environment. From QR code ...

May 20, 202121 minEp. 135

134: AI Powered Texting to Increase Retention & Revenue

Cool stuff on tap from the folks at Pluto. Jaime Oikle from RunningRestaurants.com talks with Shana Opperman, CEO and Co-Founder of Pluto, which is doing some pretty exciting stuff with AI powered text messaging. Text is thought of as a somewhat sacred form of communication with customers so you can't break their trust with constant, spammy sales messages. That's why we liked what the Pluto folks were doing so much. Find out more at https://www.heypluto.com & https://www.runningrestaurants.c...

May 05, 202122 min

How Speeding Up The Way Customers Pay At Your Restaurant Can Make A Big Difference With Christine de Wendel

Technology is changing so much for restaurants. What's great is it's helping restaurants run more efficiently and thus also helping to increase the potential for profits. Jaime Oikle from RunningRestaurants.com checks in with Christine de Wendel, Founder and CEO of Sunday about her new company and the $24 million dollars they recently raised to grow our their fintech solution will help restaurants around the world. Exciting stuff... Find out more at https://www.sundayapp.com & https://www.ru...

Apr 26, 202116 minEp. 133
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