Short motivational guidance for new restaurant managers emphasizing that awareness is the first step to making choices that lead to change; success leaves observable clues and failure does too. The speaker argues that ignorance is not beneficial and that recognizing problems is necessary to find solutions.
Many new managers find this out the hard way, sometimes through the lackluster results they get when taking control of the management wheel. Just remember that awareness precedes choice, and choice precedes change. You have to realize that there's a problem before you can actually find a solution. Contrary to popular opinion, ignorance is not bliss. It's just ignorance and delusion, and that is not a good combination. Restaurant success as a manager isn't really complex. Success does leave clues, and so does failure.
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
