Jaime is the Owner & Founder of RunningRestaurants.com, a comprehensive web site for restaurant owners & managers filled with marketing, operations, service, people & tech tips to help restaurants profit and succeed.
Some of the best ideas in your restaurant are sitting inside your staff's brains! Margins are too tight to miss out on them. Here's tips to pull out the best insights from your team. (Read time @ 8 mins)
Running Restaurants Founder Jaime Oikle speaks with Stephen Klein, co-founder and CEO of Saivory, about how AI is transforming the restaurant industry. Stephen explains how Saivory helps restaurants reduce
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Many operators are caught in the day to day working “In” their restaurants not “On” the restaurant! They put out daily fires and get the job done, but they’re
Marketing isn't magic - it's a plan. A well-built Monthly Marketing Calendar keeps your restaurant top of mind, drives consistent traffic, and ensures you're
The greeting is one of the smallest moments in a restaurant experience, but it carries outsized importance. Guests make fast judgments. Here's tips on getting it right. (Read time @ 4 mins)
A recent visit to London and Paris offered a useful reminder for U.S.-based restaurant operators: some of the best lessons are hiding in plain sight. We look at nine possible areas of improvement. (Read time @ 8 mins)
What motivates workers to success? We talk about the key driving factors and 6 ways restaurant management teams can best use these tools to motivate their teams. Examples, scripts and more. (Read time @ 6.5 mins)
Restaurants live and die on frequency. This is why restaurants should not view the guest visit as a single transaction. It should be part of a cycle: Attract / Serve / Capture / Invite back/ Reward / Repeat. Here's how to get it right at your restaurant. (Read time @ 9 mins)
Better words, better shifts - 75+ examples of motivational things to say to your staff. Use these simple phrases today to build a stronger team at your restaurant. (Read time @ 9 mins)
One of the biggest missed opportunities in restaurant marketing is not actively marketing to the lists of people who already know you.
A reactivation campaign is a focused effort to
The words your team uses can directly influence average check, guest satisfaction, loyalty signups, catering leads, return visits and more. Good scripts give the team confidence so don't leave these opportunities to chance. Here are 12 examples you can use right away. (Read time @ 8 mins)
