Embrace The Suck Blog
If youâre an owner who wants to make more profits and work less, then youâre in the right place.
I have a big fat warning for you, though: what youâre about to read wonât be easy.
The truth is that you have the ability to make more profits and work less.
Itâs there; just waiting for you to gra...
The Coronavirus Pandemic is unlike anything we have ever experienced. Times like these bring out the best in some people and the worst in others. It has forced some to close for good and for others to rethink their reason for staying in this industry. Some have added take-out and delivery. Others ha...
*The following is an excerpt from my new book: Your Restaurant Culture Sucks coming out in September 2021.
"You should close your restaurant."
I canât believe the words just came out of my mouth. There was a very long silence on the other end of the Zoom call. Enough silence that you knew deep dow...
Creating new habits and rewiring your brain is not easy. If it was, everyone would be living their life to the potential and not have any backslides. Real, life is not like that!
It takes constant and steady pressure to change yourself. That is why the concept of Kaizen is SO IMPORTANT to our new w...
The bad news: Here we are, waiting for the world to end.
I know I wrote a post a little while back saying that there would be a restaurant apocalypse in 2020. I did not see this curveball coming.
The good news: The world is not going to end! However, it is going to change, and to deal with that
...Gather âround and allow me to tell you a tale. The names have been changed to protect those not so innocent. Let this tale be a precautionary lesson for you to not go down the same path lest you suffer the same fate as this restaurant did.
Youâve been warnedâstop reading now if youâre happy with th...


We all want to get back to ânormal,â whatever that means now.
Honestly, normal wasnât very normal in the first place so, letâs look at this as a plot twist!
This time around is your opportunity to do things better than you did before. COVID-19 isnât your fault, but how you ran your restaurant be...
âYouâre obsessed!â
If someone said that to you right now, how would you feel?
Uneasy? Pissed? Shocked? Relatively pleased?
The word obsession gets a bad rap. Granted that obsession can be destructive if taken to extremes like anything. However, when it is focused like a laser it will give your b...
So, what is your title? Are you a manager or a leader?
Before you jump on the âIâm a leader bandwagonâ, we should have a talk. You might be suffering from Leadership Delusion. Itâs fairly common in this industry. We have a lot of preconceived notions about what a leader really is.
Look up the defi...