Free Guide · The Operator’s Playbook

Keep Your People.
Cut Your Stress.

The free field guide to building a restaurant team that actually stays — using a plan, a whiteboard, and ten minutes a week.

  • The free 90-day onboarding plan that cuts turnover
  • The 10-minutes-per-person check-in method
  • Why it lowers your team’s stress and yours
  • Every claim backed by cited research
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The Operator’s Playbook
Keep Your People. Cut Your Stress.
Build a team that actually stays — a plan, a whiteboard, ten minutes a week.
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What’s inside

Seven short chapters. Every one gives you a free, do-it-by-hand system — plus the research on why it works.

Chapter 1

The Math Nobody Does

Put a real dollar figure on your turnover — and turn “soft stuff” into your highest-ROI work.

Chapter 2

The First 90 Days

The free structured onboarding plan that makes new hires 58% more likely to stay three years.

Chapter 3

Milestone Ladders

Why a visible path beats “training” — and turns a job into something people don’t quit.

Chapter 4

The 10-Minute Check-In

The cheapest retention tool on earth: Win / Wall / Want / Next, ten minutes a week.

Chapter 5

Tactical Wellness

How the same ten minutes lowers your team’s stress — and gets your own nervous system back.

Chapter 6

Discipline Without Dread

A fair, boring, written ladder that removes the drama and protects you.

70–75%
Annual restaurant turnover — highest of any U.S. sector
~⅓
Of new hires quit within their first 90 days
58%
More likely to stay 3 years with structured onboarding
More engaged when they get regular 1-on-1s

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