When Andrew Simmons determined to purchase a restaurant in January 2020, little did the long-time entrepreneur know that in just some months, he can be compelled to shut his doorways attributable to COVID.
However as an alternative of giving up, he knew he needed to get artistic to outlive. Survive he did, and when he reopened his doorways, he saved tinkering, making an attempt to determine how new know-how may make his restaurant extra environment friendly.
Andrew’s been an open e book throughout the course of, open-sourcing his studying as he navigates his journey through posts on Linkedin and a weblog. He shares what works and what doesn’t, offering a possible blueprint for different operators occupied with how know-how may change their enterprise.
Throughout this podcast, Andrew and Mike discuss:
- How the set up of a pizza robotic from Picnic utterly modified how he does enterprise
- How one piece of game-changing know-how, like a pizza robotic, forces different modifications and adoption of recent know-how all through the restaurant’s workflow
- The impression of recent know-how on his unit value for pizzas
- How analytics software program helped him notice his dine-in enterprise was not worthwhile and the way it modified his occupied with how he ran his restaurant
- How he was compelled to rethink how he used workers via the usage of know-how and the way the workers (and former workers) have reacted
- His pizza subscription idea and the way he believes it may possibly assist him pay for opening new eating places
- Andrew’s plans to launch a 100-unit restaurant chain constructed utilizing off-the-shelf restaurant know-how
If you’re contemplating utilizing know-how corresponding to robotics to your restaurant, this episode is a must-listen! You possibly can hearken to the dialog on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or click on play beneath.
