"All of the previous comments are great advice. I'd add, Don't just tell people what to do and how to do it. Show them why to what in what way. Help people understand how what they do and how they do it affects everyone…"
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Restaurant Managers help me out.
Started this discussion. Last reply by swmnguy Jan 30. 6 Replies 0 Likes
I have been a AM, KM and now I am working on AGM for Red Robin. I am about to be acting GM for 2 quarters. I have worked every position in the restaurant business sans GM. I want to know what…Continue
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Lukus Albin Nov 4, 2011. 9 Replies 0 Likes
Hello dudes, My name is Rusty Monson and I am 33 years old. I am origanlly from Lehi Ut, (the city they film footloose in) but spent most of my time in Salt Lake and a stint in New Orleans. I…Continue
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David F. replied to Rusty Monson's discussion Restaurant Managers help me out."Great point! I know of a General Manger of a expensive resort who will jump on the reservation phones or handle front desk check-in's if the base line crew needs the help. There are some jobs she is not qualified to do but for rest…"
Derek replied to Rusty Monson's discussion Restaurant Managers help me out."As a guy who has been an employee under just about every boss there has ever been (I'm now in-between jobs, but I'll be a teacher shortly!), I can tell you that your employees appreciate a sense of community.
The boss who says, "I…"
David F. replied to Rusty Monson's discussion Restaurant Managers help me out."Well said, the only thing I would add is show up 15 min ahead when you are expected and be sure problems are done before you leave.
Also remember the between and issue and a problem.
An issue is a difference of perspective. Neither view…"
Rusty Monson replied to Rusty Monson's discussion Getting back into the fold in the group Freemasonry"I don't have dues card but at the end of the event I was required to pay the dues for 2012. As far as passed goes, I think I need to pass off some memorization and grips, etc. to be official. I guess the fact I don't…"
Will replied to Rusty Monson's discussion Restaurant Managers help me out."I'm no expert. But: see that the routine makes sense, and see that it doesn't change that often. That way you avoid people not getting the right order, or on time, or done right. Seems that when the staff struggle…"
Michael D. Denny replied to Rusty Monson's discussion Restaurant Managers help me out."1. Don't hire girls just because they're smoking hot. Hire ones that are smoking hot and actually qualified.
2. Do not, ever, ever, ever flirt with the members of the wait staff. Arms length only.
3. Have your wine supplier give your…"
Sean Beyer replied to Rusty Monson's discussion Getting back into the fold in the group Freemasonry"Brother Monson,
I'm going to make some assumptions: you were initiated, passed, and raised in a "regular" lodge; have a valid dues card; aren't suspended or expelled. If my assumptions are correct then you would be good to go. I…"
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Getting back into the fold
I have been dragging my feet for a ver long time. I attended a Master Mason in one day event and went through all the degrees. I am a part of a lodge in Salt Lake City but moved to another town. After the MM in one day event I was instructed to go to the lodge in my new town and have them pass me off. I attended lodge once and was set up with some gentleman to study in order to pass it off. I was then promoted at work and got very busy and was unable to got back to the lodge. It has been…See More
Rusty Monson posted a discussionRestaurant Managers help me out.
I have been a AM, KM and now I am working on AGM for Red Robin. I am about to be acting GM for 2 quarters. I have worked every position in the restaurant business sans GM. I want to know what advice you would give a new GM.Even if it is basic stuff, sometimes basic is the best. What can I do to make us the best restaurant in town while hitting the numbers? Commence the advice!Thanks in advance. See More
Michael D. Denny replied to Rusty Monson's discussion Freemasonry in 30 seconds in the group Freemasonry"However, Freemasonry doesn't even require belief in the God of Abraham, merely in "a Supreme Being", who might or might not even have created the universe.
Well, I would argue the opposite. Both your first and third degree lectures…"
Bryan Maloney replied to Rusty Monson's discussion Freemasonry in 30 seconds in the group Freemasonry"While I would agree that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all may be oriented toward the same God, but some folks just don't do it quite right, cases can be made within each tradition that the other two do not actually worship the same deity…"
Kory G Leach replied to Rusty Monson's discussion Freemasonry in 30 seconds in the group Freemasonry"This is true, the important thing is that we believe in a "higher power". Just to be clear though Christians, Jews and Muslims all worship the same God. We as freemasons don't have to worship this God, but we cannot be…"
Michael D. Denny replied to Rusty Monson's discussion Freemasonry in 30 seconds in the group Freemasonry"And appoint a committee to run the weather control machine. "
Bryan Maloney replied to Rusty Monson's discussion Freemasonry in 30 seconds in the group Freemasonry"A bunch of old guys meet twice a month and discuss how they're going to handle this year's fundraiser for the scholarships they give out to high school students each year.
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- I am a huge Saints fan and a football fan in general. I am equally as big of a Utah Jazz fan. When I am not watching the Saints or Jazz games I like Hunting, Cooking, Music, Hiking, camping, reading, learning, whiskey, helping others, being around good friends and family. I have many interests but that is a few. I am a restaurant manager and I spend a great deal of time reading leadership books.
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- History Books, John Adams, The Looming Tower, On the Road, A People's History of the United States, No Country for Old Men, Common Sense, 7 habits of high effective people, It's your ship, Count of Monte Cristo, Flags of Our Fathers, Sun Tzu The Art of War, Walden, Leaves of Grass, Slaughterhouse-Five, Dharma Bums, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, 1776 by David McCullough, Death of a Gunfighter, Theodore Rex, Under the Banner of Heaven, The Prophet, Nausea, Goethe's Faust, Survivor, Ted White and Blue, Motorcycle Diaries, The Stranger, True Grit (novel), The Sirens of Titan... Too name a few.
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- Westerns, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Bottle Rocket, The Godfather, Lonesome Dove, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Hobbit, True Grit, Zero Dark Thirty, Pulp Fiction, A Fistful of Dollars, Rounders, High Plains Drifter, Pale Rider, Raising Arizona. Rio Bravo. Fargo, Fight Club, Gran Torino, The Dirty Dozen, Hang em high, Young Guns, Crazy Heart, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Magnificent Seven, Miller's Crossing, O' Brother, Where Art Thou, The Wild Bunch, High Noon, Wyatt Earp, For a Few Dollars More, The Color of Money, Shane, The Searchers, The Hustler, Jeremiah Johnson, Silverado, Appaloosa, The Deer Hunter, Unforgiven, to name a few.
- Music
- Hank Williams III, The Talking Heads, The Arcade Fire, Hank Williams, The Bloody Hollies, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Less People More Robots, Books About UFOs, Credence Clearwater Revival, R. L. Burnside, Louie Armstrong, George Jones, T.Rex, Shovels and Rope, Townes Van Zandt, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, Johnny Horton, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Wilco, Ennio Morricone, My Morning Jacket, The Fleet Foxes, Ween, The Sonics, Wu-Tang Clan, Eminem, Gary Stewart, David Allen Coe, 13th Floor Elevators, The Deadly Snakes, Lefty Frizzell, Dale Watson, Eddy Arnold, Wayne Hancock, Bruce Springsteen
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- "All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost. "
-- JRR Tolkien
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- At 9:25am on November 1, 2011,
Ian Wilson said… - awesome quote.
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