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Exceptional Annual Planning
How to make 2025 more successful for your restaurant!
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Each fall some independent operators begin reviewing the accomplishments of their current year and start brainstorming the goals and objectives for the upcoming year. Many of us, however, tend to skip this process…we focus on the upcoming holidays and then seem surprised when another year has arrived!
Is what they say true, ‘Failing to plan is planning to fail’? Perhaps this is why I have compiled some of the best practices I have seen in numerous successful independent operators I have worked with over the years. Please join me as we discuss a simple process of annual planning, that includes obtainable objectives and manageable budgets, which will help set a direction that management and staff can utilize to stay focused!
Here are some key points we will cover:
- How annual plans become living documents and much more than simply a budget.
- The three key questions annual planning answers.
- How annual short-term strategies keep you in line with your restaurant’s mission, purpose, and long-term objectives.
- Why this annual process is important for your management and key staff.
- The three steps for successfully implementing your annual plan.
About the Presenter:
Chris Tripoli
Principal, The Restaurant Clinic
Chris Tripoli has over 45 years of service in the hospitality industry as a concept developer, owner-operator and restaurant consultant. He has created award-winning restaurant concepts; consulted on a wide variety of restaurant projects throughout the US and internationally; and developed successful food service programs for airports, parks, theaters, arenas, convention centers, and medical centers.
Chris teaches classes in opening, operating and expanding restaurants to advisors and clients of the Small Business Development Centers throughout the US, is an active member of Foodservice Consultants Society International and a regular speaker at association conferences.
He has been a RestaurantOwner.com contributor since 1998 and hosts the podcast “Corner Booth, candid conversations with today's restaurant entrepreneurs."
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