SERVICES
CONSULTING
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Existing Business Audit
What's Wrong With My Restaurant?
You thought all the heavy lifting was done. You went from a dream on a cocktail napkin, through the insanity of architectural drawings, licensing and permitting, change orders, hiring, Certificate of Occupancy and opening. You made it! And now your business is open. For any number of reasons, it hasn't turned out how you expected. Whether is it changed circumstances or a series of educated guesses that led to bad outcomes, you have to stop the bleeding. Examining the entire game plan, the why and the how behind the results is required. Are guest counts up or down? Where is your PPA? Your business is its own ecosystem and skipping one rock sends a ripple across the entire pond.
Executive Coaching Exploration Session
What Is Executive Coaching & Is It Right For You
During your Executive Coaching Exploration Session, we will engage in a discovery process to understand how we can best work together to co-create the outcomes you desire most.
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The Exploration Session is at no cost to you, and is for your benefit to determine if coaching is right for you.
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This will be a 45-minute hybrid session, during which we discuss the coaching program, as well as undertake a short “sample session” so you can get a feel for and understanding of the process involved in an actual coaching session.
Pre-Opening Business Assessment
The Place To Start For The Pre-Opening Phase
Opening a new restaurant is exciting, some may even say intoxicating. It is really easy to become distracted by the "bright shiny thing" every single day. The logo design, the restaurant property search, what you want the interior of your new restaurant to look like. You know, the reclaimed wood for the bar and the rescued lights from the Titanic that will bring people in the door.
The reality is that all of those things are about 112 steps too early. Before you start any of those, you need to be able to take a step back, to ask who you are, why you are doing this, how will your community benefit from your new restaurant, do you have access to enough capital to really see your new restaurant opening all the way through to the finish line? And remember, getting to opening day is not the finish line, it is just the beginning...
1:1 Executive Coaching
The Best Leaders Are The Ones Who Know They Can't Do It Alone
In order to have flexible, fluid thinking, you need to ask powerful questions including:
Why? What if? How?
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By using this approach, you are able to stop operating on habit, without questioning whether what you are "doing" is the best idea or the best approach.
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With today's constant change, you need to spend less time on autopilot and more time asking questions.
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The "Corner Office" is reserved for those that are the Questioners.
Business Financials
A Financial Model For Equitable, Profitable, Sustainable Restaurants
The industry standard is broken, and that includes the building, implementing, and using financial models. A comprehensive understanding of pre-opening expenses with a fully functional template for the operating budget, and the first round of forecasted numbers is in the scope here.
This budget is different from any other you have seen for the industry. We take into consideration the total effect of decision making on all aspects of the business. What happens if your guest count drops by five people per day? What happens if your check average goes up by $3 per day? What happens if you lose four employees in the same two-week period? Each of these has an effect on the entire financial wellbeing of your restaurant.
Enterprise Executive Coaching
Bring the power of Executive Coaching to your entire
leadership team
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Enterprise Executive Coaching allows you to extend the benefits of coaching to all of the thought leaders and decision makers across your organization, including aspiring leaders and those you plan to promote.
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With these individually tailored one-on-one sessions for each of your key people, your team is able to work for the benefit of the entire organization while also focusing on what will make them each an exceptional leader.
Human Resources
Creating Financially Viable Wages, Benefits, Culture and Education Programs For The Restaurant Employee And A New Hiring Model
For Restaurants
A new definition for success - to build new restaurant models that are equitable, profitable, sustainable. It is imperative to invest in your most important asset - your people. We do this in four ways:
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Wages - Paying a living wage.
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Benefits - Benefits are not an amenity, they are a necessity.
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Culture - The decisions that are made when nobody is watching.
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Education - Lead your people. Use the training resources you have and keep them current.
Group Executive Coaching
Total Team Collaboration
Imagine the power and synergy of having your entire leadership team together in compelling group coaching sessions.
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Your diverse leadership team brings their own talents, thought processes, perspectives, and questions to bear.
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Think of this as a series of brain storming sessions, or better yet, question storming sessions that overcome the status quo, group think, blind spots, and limiting beliefs to unlock the true potential of your entire team, working toward the best possible outcome.
Core Brand Messaging
How To Create Your Core Messaging And How To Reach
Your Audience
It's noisy out there. So much information, content and click bait to sift through on so many different platforms. Understanding how to create genuine, impactful and real content to engage your audience is more important than ever. Stop using the same empty, trendy, buzz words that everyone else is using so that you can be recognized for who you are, not just what you put on the plate.
New restaurants have two audiences - potential employees and customers (Internal and External guests). Being able to communicate internally is just as important as the message the buying public sees. Have you seen job posts on social media that say something like, "Hiring line cooks, $14 per hour, HMU?" They are not particularly inspiring. Let's craft your message and get it out to the people who most need to hear it.
Color Code Training
Understanding How To Share And Receive Information
Color Code Interpersonal Skills Workshop:
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We all have a Driving Core Motive, the “WHY” behind everything we do. That Core Motive is identified when you and your workshop participants take the Color Code Personality Assessment. Most other popular tests and assessments strictly identify behavior and leave it at that. The Color Code goes beyond personality and enables participants to really understand WHY they think and behave as they do.
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The Color Code is easy to use and implement in any organization. In this workshop, your participants are taught how to develop increased levels of self-awareness (the #1 key element for developing Emotional Intelligence skills); learn how to effectively understand and work with team members; improve communication skills; and be better prepared to create successful professional relationships.
Recruiting & Staffing
Executive Search for All Salaried Leadership Positions
Angry Olive Consulting has partnered with In-House Hires, which specializes in both the hospitality industry and domestic needs for recruiting and staffing. We have partnered with In-House Hires because they seamlessly integrate with your team - they are your personal recruiting and staffing division.
Some may call their service level “customized, concierge, or bespoke.” In-House Hires call it personalized, because of their arm-in-arm relationship with your team and your candidates from the initial job post, through the entire process, to the ultimate offer letter and hire. That is why Angry Olive Consulting has so much trust and respect for In-House Hires Co-Founders Oliver Zabar and Phil Cohen.
