Bruce Nelson

Writer, Speaker & Author of Restaurant Management, the Myth, the Magic, the Math. Sign up for my newsletter, It Would Be Nice If...

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January 2nd. The doors open and nobody has written a labor target or food cost goal on a whiteboard anywhere in the building.

The whole plan is to work hard and hope it works out.

Hope is not a financial strategy. An imperfect forecast beats no plan every single time.

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Your P&L Tells You Where You've Been. Your Budget Tells You Where You're Going. https://t.co/ziuRhAa5nn

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How many businesses are making bank on your labor?

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Read "The Most Expensive Sentence In Business"👇
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Most restaurant operators think they have an accounting problem when they really have a clarity problem.

Clean books are not the goal. Better decisions are.

In my latest article, I explain why so many accounting software projects fail:
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The question is simple, "Have you ever operated a restaurant?"

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We all know someone who lost 50 pounds overnight.

Years ago, we would have asked how.

Today, we assume the answer is Ozempic.

My latest article:

"There Is No Ozempic for an Overweight Business"
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My latest Substack dispatch:
“ No One Could’ve Talk Me Out of It ”
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Most restaurant operators don’t fail from lack of effort

They fail because they never had a real read on their business until it was too late

I learned that the hard way

45 years later, I built the company I wish I had

Here’s what that looks like 👇
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Why Ghost Kitchens Died https://t.co/ituWJC0H3R

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Thinking about opening your next restaurant?
If your books aren’t clean, growth won’t fix the problem, it will multiply it.
Most operators don’t need more strategy. They need better financial vision.
Know before you grow.
Read more: https://t.co/6PnZYmE2RP
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Wars, Oil & Global Unrest
Restaurants cannot change the big stuff, focus on daily wins.

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For decades we’ve been told automation would eliminate work.

Instead, many of us now spend our evenings uploading documents, navigating portals, and feeding the system.

Did automation really save labor…
or just move it?

Read my latest:
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The biggest cash flow problem in restaurants usually isn’t on the income statement.

It’s on the balance sheet.

And sometimes when you hire an expert, what you really get is a mirror.

New essay 👇
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We Used to Be Left Alone https://t.co/fwDUJz5v2k

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In Minnesota, The Work Remains, The Workers Do Not https://t.co/dbdI5CuJtK

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Customer Service Is Dead https://t.co/j554go7PhN