Your Google Business Profile is your real front door, and most owners haven't touched it in years. Al covers the three fixes that cost nothing and pay off immediately: hours that are actually right (especially holidays), photos taken this week instead of 2021, and how to reply to reviews. Plus the secret about answering bad reviews: you're not writing to the angry customer, you're writing to the hundred strangers reading your reply. Twenty minutes of work, the highest-return marketing you'll do all month.

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The best restaurants in the world share one habit. It costs nothing, takes ten minutes, and most independents skip it every day: the pre-shift meeting. In this episode, Al breaks down what happens when you skip it (servers finding out about 86'd items from angry tables, specials nobody sells, the same mistake repeating all week) and gives you the exact ten-minute agenda: the numbers, the menu, one service focus, and a taste of one dish. Run it tonight.

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You hired someone new, pointed at your best server and said "just follow Maria." That's not training, that's gambling. In this episode, Al explains why people don't quit hard work, they quit chaos, and what every lost hire really costs you. Then he lays out the five-day first-week plan that turns new hires into keepers: the tour and menu tasting, station checklists, the reverse shadow, and the fifteen-minute check-in. Write it once, use it forever.

Could you turn your phone off for three days and come back to a restaurant that's still standing? If not, you own a job, not a business. Al walks through the first systems that buy your life back: opening and closing checklists your team actually signs, documented recipes any trained cook can execute, and the one-day-off test that shows you what to fix next.

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The bigger your menu, the more waste, the more inventory, the slower your kitchen, and the thinner your margins. In this episode: how to pull your product mix report, find the dead dishes that are costing you money, and give your stars the menu real estate they deserve. Your guests don't remember big menus. They remember signature dishes.

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If you set your prices by looking at the restaurant across the street, you copied their mistakes. Al breaks down why menu prices can only come from the plate itself, how to cost a dish down to the garnish and the oil in the pan, and the food cost percentage to aim for. One dish a day, and in two weeks your whole core menu is costed.

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Ep 1 — Full Restaurant, Empty Bank Account? Here's Why

Your dining room was packed last night and you still can't pay yourself. In this episode, restaurant coach Al Kanbar explains why sales mean nothing without margins, and shows you the three numbers that decide whether your restaurant makes money: food cost, labor cost, and prime cost. You'll learn how to pull them from last week's numbers tonight, in ten minutes, no accountant needed.

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