Category: Opening Journal

Encourage and lift your employees. Set them up for success.

Sleep-deprived, grateful that I have had these experiences before to help me pull through.

During an interview, don’t sell the job. Make the potential hire sell him or herself.

When blending chickpeas for hummus, best do it when chickpeas are warm, otherwise hummus will never be smooth.

Baking is the most time consuming and technical job in our kitchen. If a baking schedule could be set in stone, then everything else will fall in place.

System integration seems like a great idea. However, integration needs to be a total package in order to be effective. Merely picking and choosing functionality be integrated lacks depth and leads to inefficiency.

Domino’s hit it all and out of the ballpark.

Must have a manual sign-in & out timesheet available. Though we have a digital timesheet set up, we must have a back-up since technology is not fully embraced.

When making up a recipe, create weight measurements for cost analysis, and implement volume measurements for training purposes.

One month in, glad to see a decent size check average, 20 to 25 dollars per order. Keep on building this momentum!

Success is built on teamwork and self-critique, and frustrations are trivial when I focus on the bigger picture.