Hey everybody, Ryan Gromfin here – author, speaker, chef, restaurateur,
and founder of therestaurantboss.com,
clickbacon.com, and scalemyrestaurant.com.
Now normally when I film my blog videos,
I'm all formal and I set up my camera and I stand here behind this
wall and I make sure that it's framed perfectly, but
I was rehearsing for this video about to set up my office
and it's just running through me right now.
Like this is something I'm so passionate about,
so I just decided to just grab the selfie stick and film…
you could even see my thumb there, hello.
And you're getting a behind-the-scenes look in my office,
but is the restaurant business hard?
You know I get this question all the time and people tell me, it's just so hard, it's just so hard,
but you know what?
What I believe about the restaurant business is, it's not really that hard.
What makes it hard is doing a hundred or even a thousand easy
things well every day.
Now let me explain, but first, I want to go back a few steps.
When I was operating some restaurants
in a partnership about 12-13 years ago,
I was a partner and I was operating four restaurants at the time.
I had three open and I got rushed to the emergency room one night
because of what I found out to be were ulcers,
acid that had built up in my body, burnt a hole in my stomach
because of the stress struggle and overwhelm of operating restaurants.
I was struggling, I thought it was really hard.
Previous to that, I had worked in some great restaurants
and some great hotels and I was a very successful chef and I thought
this was just the next step of my career. This was going to be easy, but it wasn't, I struggled.
And the doctor told me to take two weeks off work,
right? That's pretty funny. I had no medical, no paid leave,like how was I supposed to take
two weeks off work?
But I was able to take one day off work and one day is almost the same as two weeks,
not really.
But anyways, I took that one day off and I laid in bed and I started asking myself the
question of, what's going to be different?
What's going to be different tomorrow,
the next day, the next week whatever?
So this doesn't keep happening to me and
what I decided at that moment in time was that I needed some help and I
thought back to some Tony Robbins stuff that I had done and
I pulled out my CDs.
I think the program was called “Get the edge” Tony Robbins course,
and I went through it again and what I realized,
what he helped me realize was a concept called chunking it down,
and chunking it down is basically taking things that are big and overwhelming and difficult
and breaking them into their smallest parts and pieces.
Like there's an expression, how do you eat an elephant one bite at a time?
And as you break these things down, you start to realize like hey,
what I'm actually doing in the restaurant business
isn't that hard?, what's making it hard
is that I’m trying to do it all at once, I'm trying to look at it all as
one thing rather than chunking it down and
telling myself, what I just said earlier, which is
the restaurant business isn't really all that hard,
what we're doing is not all that hard. We're welcoming guests,
we're treating them kindly and with respect.
We're cooking them food and giving them drinks and that's about it.
It's not really that hard. What makes it hard
is doing a hundred easy things well every day,
and so it was through the work
in courses and online courses with a coach
that I was able to turn those restaurants around and that really inspired me
to the point where when that partnership fell apart in a blaze of glory,
it was a beautiful explosion, like most partnerships are
and I was stuck jobless, I wanted to consult, I wanted to coach
because I had learned so much and I had grown so much in my career,
my career at the time of operating restaurants that
I wanted to help other people do it.
And so that's why I’ve created courses and that's why I’ve offered coaching,
but I couldn't afford to work one-on-one with Tony Robbins. I think he's like
four million dollars a year if you want to work with him. So,
I went through his courses, so that's why the first thing I did when I started
my consulting was create a course, but it's also because of a guy named
Brendan bur chard and when I decided to start consulting,
I was getting very overwhelmed by everything I had to do and
what I realized is, why am I going to go through the pain I went through when I started
operating a restaurant?
To go through that pain and make those mistakes,
only to then realize that I need some help.
why not just start right out day one
when I started my coaching and consulting career,
go out and find a great coach and so Brenda bur chard was recommended to me and
I couldn't afford to work with Brendan bur chard one-on-one,
I could barely even afford to go through one of his courses at the time, it was
$2,000, but I put it on a credit card and I made the commitment.
And that course called Experts Academy
really changed my life.
And it really accelerated my consulting career to the point where now
I'm blessed and able to be a full-time
very successful coach and consultant in the restaurant business,
helping lots of restaurant owners all over the world,
it's amazing and I’m so blessed to be able to do it, but again,
I believe I was able to do it because of the
things I learned going through Tony Robbins courses and then the things I learned going through
Brendan bur chard courses of okay,
okay, you want to be a coach, you want to be a consultant, here's what you need to do.
Go do this, go do this, go do this, and while you're doing this,
break that down into these little things and do this, then do this, then do this,
like a website, okay, fine, I need a website.
What goes on my website? Well, Brendon Burchard told me -
there's seven pages that you need on an expert website.
That's what it's called the expert industry, so I built those seven pages.
That wasn't all that hard and even when I needed to learn how to build web pages,
I took courses for that.
So this idea of courses and coaches isn't really all that strange
or that odd yet. For some reason, one of the most important things in our life like our career,
we don't think to hire coaches for.
We hire coaches and go through courses if we wanted to get better at golf,
if we wanted to get better piano like, taking a piano course online, that's not weird.
Taking a guitar course online, that's not weird, but your restaurant,
the thing that provides you the money for your family, to put a roof over your head,
and to allow you to take the golf and the piano lessons and for your kids,
why don't we go through courses and learn there? So,
the point of today's video is, is the restaurant business hard?
Yeah, if you do it the hard way, it's hard.
If you do it the easy way, I don't think it's that hard.
I think if you talk to a restaurant owner today who's struggling, they're going to tell you it's hard.
I talk to restaurant owners who are crushing it, I'm fortunate enough to work with them
opening up their fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth, tenth restaurant and to them,
it's not that hard, but it's not that hard because
they've learned how to do it right ,they've gotten coaching, they've gone through courses,
they've learned along the way, they've read books.
So anyways, I just wanted to kind of off the cuff,
no script, just passion here, put this video out for you about
the impact courses had on my life,
which is why I have taken the time to create courses
and put them out for you and the last thing I want to say here and
I think you'll see a video at the end of this about it is,
we've recently created something called the restaurant boss membership.
And in the restaurant boss membership, you get access to all of my coaching
or I'm sorry, all of my courses,
Scale, restaurant manager certification, ghost kitchen boot camp.
We have a new course coming out, by the time you're watching this, it might already be out
called Hired,
and we're going to create new courses a couple of them a year
to make sure that there's always fresh content out there for you,
but also if you're in the restaurant boss membership,
you'll have the ability to jump into coaching with me weekly
called Rocket fuel coaching, that's only available for members.
They'll be more about that after this video here or below it or in a card up there,
but either way,
if you're not exactly where you want to be, if
you're doing well and you want to do better,
if you're struggling a little bit and you know you're close and you just need a little bit of help;
consider going through some courses, consider getting some training and getting some help here.
There's nothing wrong with that, it's awesome,
it's been amazing for my life and people that I’ve
had the privilege of coaching and people that have gone through our courses
to see the changes in their life, it's just been awesome.
So all right, everybody, this is Ryan Gromfin here with the restaurant boss
wishing you an absolutely amazing day.
And remember, systems create freedom,
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