I'm not going to name any names, but a couple of weeks ago,
I went to visit a client and they struggled a little bit with a new menu rollout.
I went out to visit them and work with them and they struggled
rolling out a new menu,
but this is something I see a lot.
So if you have ever struggled with rolling out a new menu or changes,
or if you're about to make some changes to your menu,
stick around, I'm going to share with you
four ways to make sure that your menu rollout
goes great the next time you do it.
Hey, everybody. Ryan Gromfin here – author, speaker, chef,
restaurateur, and founder of the Restaurantboss.com,
as well as Clickbacon.com
I am so excited to talk to you about how to properly roll out your menu,
but before we do that, I got to share something with you,
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hey, come in all different sizes and shapes.
Never promoted a product on my channel before.
People send me stuff all the time,
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You guys are going to love this. This is called Guardian Drain Lock.
You basically put this in your drain and your
floor sink or the drains on your floor,
you know the floor sink, whatever.
They make all different shapes and sizes,
any drain your restaurant that's going to work for,
but basically, you put it in,
you screw it down using the special screw
that only you have, and then your employees can't
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all that junk that ends up on the floor and in your drains,
they just at the end of the day instead of throwing that out,
they just pick off the cover, shove it down the drain.
Not everyone does it, but sometimes it happens.
It used to happen to me a lot,
then you get stuck with plumbing bills, repairs, maintenance,
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So, how do we handle a new menu rollout?
Well, it's pretty simple if you're doing a lot of other things well,
but the first thing that I want to share with you is
this really falls on you as the owner, manager,
kitchen supervisor, kitchen manager, chef,
whatever you want to call it. I think when we roll out new menus,
we rely too heavily on staff and
they don't know what's going on a lot of times with this new menu.
So I got my trusty notes here, but the first thing that want to make sure of is - I
when you roll out a new menu,
you have to update the checklist.
Hopefully, you're using checklist, but before you roll out the new menu,
it's your responsibility to provide your team with a new checklist,
so they know what goes on the station and what doesn't
go on the station because things change.
The second thing you got to do is provide them with a new prep list.
There's new items to prepare, some items we're not preparing anymore,
some items are new that we have to prepare.
I can't tell you how many times I've walked into restaurants
and I'll see something and I'll be like, hey,
I don't think we're using that product anymore,
and they're like, really? I didn't know that it's still on my prep list,
or no one told me, right?
I'm sure you've had that, no one told me, I didn't know”.
Right? So it's our job. We got to update the checklist,
we got to update the prep list.
You also have to update the recipe book.
I can't tell you how many times I've had cooks
walk up to me when I'm consulting and they're like,
“Hey! I think there's some new recipes today,
but I don't know what they are or they're not in the recipe book.”
I hear this from owners all the time. Like we did a new menu rollout,
but the cooks are still preparing it the old way,
or they didn't make the sauce and last night was a disaster
because we were out of things.
Well, did you update the checklist?
Did you update the prep list? And did you update the recipe in the recipe book?
And then the last thing is the build sheets.
Have you updated the build sheets to make sure that they
know what this new item looks like and how to prepare it?
And so your managers and your staff and everyone knows
when one comes up in the window,
is it correct or not correct? Well, they can compare it to the picture.
Now, I know what's happening here.
You're going to be asking yourself the question – well,
I don't have checklist, or if I do, they're probably not using,
or the staff doesn't like them, you don't have prep list,
you don't have a recipe book, and if you do,
it's probably hasn't been updated in a while, and you don't have build sheets.
So, you know what I'm going to say here - get to work.
Get to work because it's about managing the system and developing the people.
It's about managing the system.
If you're sick and tired of managing
people in your restaurants because you don't have systems in place and everyone says,
I want systems, I want systems. Well, here are your first four systems.
These are the most important things you can do in your restaurant. A checklist.
Make sure that everything is on the station.
A prep list, so everyone knows what to prepare.
A recipe books, so there's no about how things are prepared.
And a build sheet, so there's no questions about how to
turn all that product into a menu item that goes out to the customer,
so everyone's on the same page of what it looks like
and what goes on and all that other stuff.
If you're not sure about all this and you need more information
about it and you want to
learn more about how to implement systems like this in your restaurant,
go to a website called ScaleMyRestaurant.com
Depending on when you're watching this video,
we have a new training program coming out called scale,
or if you're watching this and it's already been released,
that you go to a website called ScaleMyRestaurant.com.
It's an amazing training that we're going to walk you through
how to build all these systems and so many more step-by-step,
but also, if you want to check out my free videos,
go back to our restaurant – TheRestaurantboss.com,
click on blog and do a search. Do a search for checklist, do a search for prep list.
We're probably going to put some links below this video for you anyways,
but check that out.
One more thing that I want to let you know of
is we are doing a sponsorship with Guardian Drain Lock right now,
but they've been so generous to give five of these away.
So below this video is going to be a link,
you can get five any size you want,
whatever you need, but below the video is going to be a link
where you can fill that out
and we're going to randomly pick someone to give
five of these away for free, but in order to do that,
you have to be a subscriber to our YouTube channel.
So, if you haven't subscribed already, go ahead and click on that subscribe button.
I know we covered a lot in this video here.
There's probably way too many things for you to keep track of,
but you know, 1) we talked about how to roll out your menu properly
with checklist, prep sheets.
Wow! I'm drawing a blank here. Sorry! Checklist,
prep sheets, recipe books, and build sheets.
We also talked about the Guardian Drain Lock, right?
Go ahead and get yourself one of these. Subscribe to the channel.
Visit the link, the amazon link. Come back to our website, whatever. I'm done.
Too much information for you, I get it.
I hope you enjoyed today's video.
Subscribe to our channel, win yourself a Guardian Drain Lock,
and make sure your next menu rollout is awesome.
Next week, we got another great video coming up for you.
Have a wonderful day. Bye-bye.
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