Keeping it Essential: Traits of Effective Restaurateurs

When things aren’t going the way you had hoped in your restaurant, it’s easy to blame the competition, your suppliers, your staff, seasonality, the economy, the weather, or whatever other excuse you can conjure up. However, have you ever stopped to consider that maybe - just maybe - the problems in your restaurant can only be fixed by first looking inward? In other words, have you ever thought that maybe for your restaurant to change, you must change the way you run your restaurant?

It’s simple but ineffective to find scapegoats when figuring out how to go about fixing your restaurant, but let’s face it - it takes a certain kind of mentality to run a restaurant. Below is a list of ten personality characteristics all great restaurateurs should (and do) have.

To get you started towards more effective restaurant management, here are 10 characteristics you should adopt to become better at running your r-e-s-t-a-u-r-a-n-t.  

R is for ResoluteLet's face it - managing a restaurant…