Restaurant Growth Accelerator: More Profit, More Locations, And More Time With Your Family
Aug 24, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min · 12 segments
**"Nobody wants to work anymore." - Every restaurant owner has said it. But the strange thing is, the generation and your local area haven't actually changed. So why has hiring got harder?** In this…
Andrew ScottHost
Based on firefighting all the time, how many of you guys have as much profit as you want to have in the business? Yes or no.

And also, how many of you have had to sacrifice things like your family time, your personal time, like your health, your vacations? How many of you guys have had to sacrifice those types of things for the business? So basically what I'm hearing is we have a business that doesn't pay us enough.

And we've had to sacrifice so much for and we've also invested in it to give us this life.

So the reason I point that out is because for most restaurant owners, the system is broken because we are the system.

And so what we focus on building with ownership is putting in the systems in different pieces, whether it be marketing, whether it be operations, whether it be financial.

and then allowing getting that operation to work for you instead of the other way around.

Based on firefighting all the time, how many of you guys have as much profit as you want to have in the business? Yes or no.

And also, how many of you have had to sacrifice things like your family time, your personal time, like your health, your vacations? How many of you guys have had to sacrifice those types of things for the business? So basically what I'm hearing is we have a business that doesn't pay us enough.

And we've had to sacrifice so much for and we've also invested in it to give us this life.

So the reason I point that out is because for most restaurant owners, the system is broken because we are the system.

And so what we focus on building with ownership is putting in the systems in different pieces, whether it be marketing, whether it be operations, whether it be financial.

and then allowing getting that operation to work for you instead of the other way around.
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