Restaurant consultant Donald Burns identifies Lust as the first deadly sin: owners constantly buy new POS systems, apps, and marketing agencies instead of fixing actual problems. He argues restaurants waste money on shiny tools when they should focus on standardizing existing systems to control food costs and labor inefficiencies.
Every broken restaurant is broken in one of 7 predictable ways. And today we're talking about lust. And no, I'm not talking about romance. I'm talking about your addiction to the next shiny fix. A new POS system, a new promotion, a new app, a new marketing agency promising to finally fill your restaurant. So you buy it. You feel that little rush and then for a moment, oh, it feels like progress. And then Monday comes around and your restaurant has the same problems it had before. Same food cost leaks, same labor issues, same inconsistent managers, same lack of standards. Here's the truth. You are not addicted to improvement. You are addicted to the feeling of buying improvement, and those are not the same things. A reset doesn't mean purchasing another tool. A reset means having the courage to name the pattern that's keeping you stuck. Progress, progress is not something that you purchase. Progress is a system that you install, a standard, That you enforce. A habit you repeat until the results change. I mean, a tool that you do not consistently use is nothing more than an expensive receipt. And if your team has 3 different logins on 3 different apps, but you can't follow one clear standard, you don't have a technology problem. You have a lust problem. You keep chasing the next shiny solution so that you can actually avoid the disciplined work required to make your current solution work. Sunday to me is for reset. Time to put the catalogs down, time to close out all those open sales pages. Stop, stop looking for another shortcut. Here's what I want you to do. Name the one leak in your restaurant that you already know is costing you money and then fix it using the tools that you already own. Don't add a 4th login, right? Install the standard, enforce the habit. Finish, finish what you started. Here's what I want you to do. Grab your free copy of The 7 Deadly Sins Restaurants Make. Hit the link below and grab it today.
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
