Secrets to Running a Successful Restaurant – The Ramsay Revelation
After all these years of running successful restaurants, I have had a true revelation!
With at least eight or ten episodes of Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares television “reality” show under my belt, a miracle occurred. Yes an undeniable mind clearing revelation that could change the restaurant world. All of us that operate restaurants take heed – we are making things way to complicated and can empower the Gordon Ramsay method in just one week and be so much more successful than we ever dreamed!
Here are the simple five step secrets to wild almost overnight success in the restaurant business:
- You must change your style of management. Reinvent yourself into a foul mouthed, demeaning, belligerent and downright mean spirited leader. It will work wonders for motivation, staff retention and an immediate makeover. You need to do this in front of customers to make it work even better.
- You must belittle at least one person on your kitchen staff to walk out in the middle of dinner service each night. That leads to immediate cohesion and increased production.
- You must change your menu to just a half dozen of Ramsay’s dishes from his restaurants. He never misses – except for the restaurants of his own he closes.
- You must clean every corner of your kitchen and throw your entire inventory away – again overnight and have all new inventory appear the next morning.
- You must get new tables and chairs, along with a new paint job, all done in one night, ready to open the next day.
That’s it! Instant success. Just meet with your staff and tell them everything is great, open the doors and people will flood your dining room.
I know this is difficult to believe, but it must be true because I have watched it on television right in front of my own eyes several amazing times. This is “reality” TV. They wouldn’t put something like this on a major network unless it really happened – would they?
If you are a struggling restaurant, there are even more benefits. All the debts you have amassed will magically disappear. All the customers that you have lost will suddenly come back. And in some cases, if you are just plain stupid, you are immediately cured. Just like an old time tent revival. A slap to the forehead and you are healed brother.
In the midst of a recession and all the serious business issues the restaurant industry is facing, it is good we still have our Rocco’s, Ramsay’s and Irvine’s. In the 1930’s, during the great depression, it was Charley Chaplin, W.C. Fields and the Marx Brothers. Now those guys were true “reality”.
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Hear, hear! I love when people ask me if restaurant life is just like those shows. Yes, exactely. Great blog, I love it.