Hey everybody. Good morning from Austin.
It's Ryan Gromfin here with The Restaurant Boss author, speaker, chef, restaurateur,
founder of The Restaurant Boss and clickBacon and scale my restaurant.
And what we're here to talk about is clickBacon.
It's about 5:40 in the morning, about 30 degrees outside in Austin.
I'm on my way to Baltimore and I've got some really good news,
some really interesting news for you guys. You may not know,
you may have seen some upgrades in bacon but what you don't know is that for the last
two years or so, we've been secretly working on
something on the back end.
And we're really close to making it happen.
I'm flying out to Baltimore to meet with bob and rusty who run
what I believe to be
the best restaurant accounting company
in the world.
I've never worked with people better at restaurant accounting
people who understand restaurant specific accounting better
than Bob and Rusty at Cirrus consulting.
And we've been working back and forth for about two years
on rolling out some features and really, we both believe,
we all believe that clickBacon can be the absolute best
restaurant specific financial dashboard
for independent restaurants.
Now I just want to say that we've got a quickbooks integration
for bacon right around the corner.
And in order for that to have happened,
I needed to be working with people that understand
restaurant financials at a level that no one else understood,
which is why I know a lot of you have been asking for because you don't want to do the
double entry.
You want to enter everything in quickbooks and have it come into bacon.
We're able to do that now
and what we're working out here in Baltimore this weekend
is going to be some training
programs and some tools and some things that go along with it.
Because the biggest challenge that's held us back on the quickbooks
integration is that if your quickbooks account isn't set up
perfectly. And if you're not using quickbooks perfectly,
not just our tool but no integration will work.
And so, we didn't want to push out the quickbooks integration
until we had the support to go with it.
So, if you have questions about your quickbooks account or if the data coming
into bacon isn't coming in correctly,
it's not because bacon isn't working,
it's because your quickbooks isn't set up. Right.
And now we have the team that can help you get that quickbook set up, right.
We're going to create a program, so you can either do it yourself or you can work with them.
More information coming up when I'm in Dallas.
Well, you might not be able to see on camera,
but if you weren't sure if it's Dallas or not, you just look out and it's flat
as far as the eye can see. On my way to Baltimore.
When I was in Baltimore, I figured what a great opportunity to stop by,
and say hello to some clients that I've never had a chance
to meet and hand deliver some books. So,
I got to say hi to PJ, I got to say hi to Chef Omar
and Chef Mario and Javier,
and it was just so much fun meeting you guys hey.
Everybody, well, we're out of Baltimore now, we've been in Maryland for the last couple days.
Hopefully, you've seen some of those pictures, we were hand delivering
Make It Happen books to some clients.
And I've been talking with Bob. Say hello, Bob. Hey.
Bob is working with us on bacon Bob and his partner Rusty
run the best accounting firm. I think I told you about them
a few minutes ago called Cirrus consulting.
If you need help with restaurant accounting, they're the guys. And so, we've started.
We've been working together for a little while on bacon, which is what I already told you.
I'll give you more information, but we spent all day yesterday in a war room
working on making bacon better for you and more accessible
for you and the quickbooks integrations like we talked about. And we got another day
but we're going down. We're in Rehoboth beach right now. I'll show you.
They got about 18 inches of snow yesterday
or two days ago, and it's all off to the sides.
We were supposed to come down yesterday, because there's too much snow, we're coming down today.
We're gonna look at a couple of Bob's restaurants
and then we're gonna get back in the war room. And we're gonna figure out
a way to make bacon the absolute best accounting program
or restaurant dashboard, sorry, that you have ever seen and ever used.
And I'll have more information for you when we're done with today.
Say bye-bye. Take care, have a good day.
So, we're in one of Bob's restaurants that is being renovated
and I just wanted to quickly show you. So,
we talk about systems, we talk about processes. This is sort of Bob's process very similar to mine.
List out all the new menu items
and then, sorry about that, what he does is you go ahead.
Now this isn't final yet, but then for all of the items,
he creates a list of the prep items, the plate it goes
on, et cetera, et cetera.
And you do that for all of the items and then you turn those
into order guides. You turn the order guides into checklist.
You turn the checklist into prep sheets.
You build out your checklist. You build out your recipes and that's what we were discussing here.
And again, my process is very similar to his but
this is how you operate a restaurant
that is going to crush it.
This is how you operate a restaurant that is going to scale
is with the systems, the processes and the procedures
that we're constantly talking about here at the restaurant boss.
Hey everybody, so quick update from the trip with Bob and Rusty at Cirrus consulting.
Talking about clickBacon and we're back in my office.
You don't normally get to see this side of my office
with my peloton that I don't use as much as I should as you can tell.
Normally you get to look at the pretty wall with my books on it but
I just wanted to film this quick video update for you. So,
the trip was amazing. We spent three days working through
everything about bacon and the stuff that's going to be coming out
for bacon is going to be absolutely amazing. So, just a quick recap, one,
the quickbooks online integration,
so we can pull data directly from quickbooks into bacon.
Because the number one complaint we had about bacon
was that it was a double entry.
While I don't 100% agree that it was always double entry,
there was some double entry. You're entering stuff into quickbooks
and you're entering stuff into bacon. Now most restaurants
have a bookkeeper doing quickbooks and bacon is designed for their managers.
I like when managers enter data into bacon themselves
because they get to know it better. But hey, you asked for it, we delivered it. Now
it's going to be about another month until that integration is perfect. It's working now.
It's there. You can use it but there's some little things that we're working through.
So, we're still allowing you to use that integration for free
in about the next 30, 60, 90 days from now.
The quickbooks version is going to be a couple dollars more a month.
But we want you to get on it and start using it and give us your feedback because it works,
it's just not perfect yet and we know that your user feedback will help.
One thing, I do want to say and this is what Bob and Rusty and I are working on a lot is
a lot of you out there just want to be real.
The reason it took us so long to do this integration, it wasn't the technology, it was that
if your quickbooks isn't set up right. And I don't want to get into what right means here,
but if your quickbooks isn't set up right,
you're gonna have a hard time bringing the data into bacon in a way that makes sense. So,
if you're struggling with that, send us a message through
clickBacon support at therestaurantboss.com
or click on the support tab and clickBacon. And say hey,
I'm a little confused here. I don't know how to map this.
I don't know where certain pieces of data are supposed to go.
Bob or Rusty or someone on Bob and Rusty's team will reach out to you.
They're probably going to want to take a quick look at your quickbooks account,
and then they can get back to you and let you know
how to do things properly in clickBacon.
Or if there are things that need to get done, they can work with you
on fixing that.
But the even bigger announcement
is some of the features that we're going to be adding to bacon.
And one of those is going to be a document management system.
So, if you're using a bookkeeper to do your quickbooks
but you want your managers to know what their food cost is on a daily basis.
We're going to be creating an app where you can scan,
take pictures, email
any of your invoices and receipts and documents to your bookkeeper,
or even to your spouse or another team member who might be doing the books for you
And then they'll be able to log into bacon.
They'll be able to process those documents,
make entries into quickbooks right from bacon.
And then let you know if there's a line item they don't understand,
or if there's something that they can't read, or a document that they can't read, or a document they're missing.
Not getting into too many details but basically bacon is going to become the dashboard,
the hub for your entire restaurant financial system,
your bookkeeper, your accountant, your managers.
We've got the mobile app where they can get updates on reports.
We can automatically send reports out to them, so just
a lot of really fun things.
If you've used bacon in the past, it's a different bacon today.
If you've never used bacon, it's better than it's ever been.
In the next three to five months,
bacon is going to be, I guarantee the absolute
easiest to use most powerful restaurant financial tool
you have ever used that has always been our mission.
And now partnering with Bob and Rusty at Cirrus consulting,
we can deliver on that.
So, any suggestions you have, any questions, any comments, leave them below.
We'd love to get back to you. Put them in the comments or email us
support@therestaurantboss.com. We will get back to you, we will help you out.
Our mission is to deliver the absolute best most seamless
easiest to understand from soup to nuts, start to finish
restaurant financial program and we are so close to doing it for you.
Have an amazing day. Bye-bye.
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