In this episode, we discuss growing your company by distributing loyalty and allegiance to your team, providing feedback to your team members, why you should have  scorecard for all your managers and team members, how success comes from hiring good people then developing them into amazing coaches and leaders, surrounding yourself with specialist, why servant leaders make the best managers, why bad experiences can be learning opportunities too, the power of thinking outside the box and diversify your business, the role of market research during expansion, the benefits of the entrepreneurial approach VS the corporate approach, why fast-casual is the way of the future, and the benefits of fast-casual to an operator.

With over approximately 40 years of experience in hospitality, Bill Post got his humbles start at Levy Restaurants back in 1978. Today and multiple businesses later, Bill is the founder and CEO of WJP Restaurant Group a multi-dimensional restaurant company with locations scattered about the country and Founder of WJPost Restaurant Advisors, offering consultancy to forward-thinking owners and entrepreneurs of small to medium sized restaurant companies.

Show notes…

Favorite Success Quote or Mantra

“Winning customers one at a time, not just our external customers, but our inner customers as well.”

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Career Challenge or Failure

Bil has had failures in the past mismatching a concept with the demographic. You’ve got to do the market research to ensure the community is going to embrace what you’re doing.

Other Resources Mentioned:

• Bill will be sharing a few blog post with us as soon as he’s written them! Will try to have them linked up no later the 5/10/17.

Knowledge bombs

1. Which “it factor” habit, trait, or characteristic you believe most contributes to your success?

   • Being personal and approachable, and human.
   • Leading others who have gone one to their own success.

2. What is your biggest weakness?

   • Being too nieve trusting.

3. What is one piece of advice you have for leading others?

   1. The coach makes the difference.
   2. adapting your leadership skills to the uniqueness of each of your team members

4. What’s one question you ask or thing you look for during an interview?

   • Character, honesty, and eye contract hold more weight than experience.
   • Ask the following question:
     • What is the most important human invention?

5. What’s a current challenge? How are you dealing with it?

   • The work ethic of younger people.
   • Deal with it by being a better coach.

6. What’s one thing (besides food) your restaurant does well and separates you from other restaurants?

   • creating long lasting bonds with team members.

7. What’s one book we must read to become a better person or restaurant owner?GET THIS BOOK FOR FREE AT AUDIBLE.COM

   • The New One Minute Manager

   • In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies

8. What’s one piece of technology you’ve adopted in your restaurant and how has it influence operations?

   • Menu engineering.
   • Toast POS– an all-in-one POS and restaurant management software with powerful tools to dramatically cut costs, drive revenue, and engage customers. Toast is built to make tableside ordering quick and easy. With efficiency in mind, servers can offer digital receipts, splitting checks is a breeze, and credit cards are secure at the swipe.

9. With all the knowledge you have now if you could go back in time and give your past self one piece of business advice, What would it be and why?

   • Follow your own self and dreams.
   • Get into a company of great leaders

10. What is one question you think should be added to this interview?

• Be ready to answer that question

Contact Info

WJpost advisors 

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Huge thanks to Bill Post for joining me for another awesome episode. Until next time!

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