2026 Restaurant Success Summit — Kill the Operator

20 Sept 2026 · 2 min

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In this promotional monologue, Donald Burns urges restaurant owners who feel trapped in daily operations to attend the 2026 Restaurant Success Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona, from October 19‑21. The summit is limited to 50 seats and features 18 workshops over three days focused on the three pillars that determine whether a restaurant scales or suffocates: People, Product, and Process. Attendees will learn how to raise standards, protect margins, install accountability, and build lasting systems so they no longer have to be the sole problem‑solver. Burns highlights a lineup of five world‑class experts—Kelly Jones, Zach Oates, Beau Bryant, Dan Carroll, and Doreen Gorman—who will share additional strategies. Participants also receive Beau Bryant’s food‑cost forecasting tool (promised to add 5‑10% to the bottom line), a profit diagnostic to pinpoint money leaks, and an advanced copy of Burns’s new book, What the Fork. The call to action directs viewers to restaurantsuccesssummit.com to claim one of the limited seats and become the owner their restaurant needs.

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So you say you want more profit, you say you want a stronger team, you say you want the restaurant to run without you, but what are you doing differently? Another year of working harder inside the same broken system will not create a different restaurant. The 2026 Restaurant Success Summit will. October 19th to 21st, right here, Scottsdale, Arizona. Only 50 seats. And over the 3 days, I'm going to take you through 18 workshops covering 3 areas that, I mean, actually determine whether your restaurant scales or if it suffocates you. People, product, process. You will learn how to raise your standards, how to protect margins, install accountability, build systems that actually last, and stop finally being the solution to every problem your team, I mean, they already should know how to fix. So here's the thing. I'm also bringing in Kelly Jones, Zach Oates, Beau Bryant, Dan Carroll, and Doreen Gorman, 5 world-class experts who are gonna give you even more strategies to help you make more and work less inside your restaurant. And you're also gonna receive from Beau Bryant a food cost forecasting tool designed that actually gonna add 5 to 10% to your bottom line. And I'm gonna give you a profit diagnostic that's gonna pinpoint where your restaurant is leaking money and how to fix it now. You're also gonna get an advanced copy of my new book, What the Fork. So stop telling yourself you're going to fix this later. Later, I mean, later has already cost you enough. Head over to restaurantsuccesssummit.com, take one of those 50 seats, and finally, finally become the owner that your restaurant needs.