MRM EXCLUSIVE: Growing Your Restaurant Franchise: It’s All About Perspective

The restaurant industry is quite possibly the epitome of what business people view as those who are "stuck" in what they do for a living as opposed to "working" on what they do or moving toward a goal.  It is a business category overflowing with some of the most talented and detail-oriented people on the planet who, in many cases, literally can’t get out of their own way. 

Why do some brands grow, expand and seemingly leap into new markets without a care in the world ...

Over the years, I have had the amazing opportunity to work with restaurant owners and food service entrepreneurs in my work as a franchise consultant.  What I’ve found is that only a very small percentage of food service business owners really “get” what it means to build systems and structures that would allow them to actually “own” a business versus “owning a job.” It is an understandable quagmire. 

The food service business model quite possibly has more moving parts, more hard to control…