A short YouTube monologue by Donald Burns warning restaurant owners about the harms of micromanagement. The speaker argues micromanaging limits a restaurant’s growth by consuming the owner’s time and attention (reducing strategic work like marketing and planning) and also causes personal burnout and loss of enjoyment in ownership.
See, on a larger scale, micromanagement really restricts your potential for your restaurant. You only have so many hours in a day, and if they're spent making every single decision, there's very little time left for strategic thinking, innovation, marketing, planning for growth. And that's going to lead to poor work, life balance. See? Furthermore, this is not about your restaurants. About you, too. Being a perpetual micromanager leads to burnout. It's going to drain you, leaving you no time for personal growth, relaxation, or actually, even the joy of owning a business.
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
