Donald Burns advises restaurant owners/managers to adopt a "system of habits" to manage time and tasks effectively. He emphasizes that habits should be automatic—"ingrained in your DNA"—and argues that without such a system restaurant operators likely waste their 24 hours and underperform.
You need what's known as a system of habit. Well, how many times a day do you follow your system if it's not something that you do on a regular basis? A system of habits is something that's ingrained in your DNA. It's not something that you really have to think about. A system of habits is one that you need to manage your time and your tasks. Because if you don't have a system in place to help you manage your time, you're just going to be wasting it. We all have 24 hours in a day. How you use those hours is your choice. And if you're not happy with the results you're getting in your restaurant, it's time that you start understanding that you're probably using your time very poorly.
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
