Fix Your Menu, Fix Your Margins! Roger Beaudoin Lays Out The Restaurant Playbook for 2026

Описание: What if you could add an extra $20,000, $50,000, or even $100,000 a year in profit just by re-engineering your menu?

On this episode of Digital Hospitality, I sit down with Roger from Restaurant Rockstars to talk about the unsexy stuff that actually moves the needle in 2026: menu engineering, cost controls, training, and building a team that sells.

Roger shares real stories from owning multiple restaurants, selling them in 2014, and building one of the longest running restaurant podcasts out there. We get into why operators should stop guessing on pricing, start costing out every item, and tighten the profit spread in every category so you stop bleeding money on popular but low profit dishes.

We also talk about loyalty, old school marketing that still works, and why salesmanship is hospitality. If your team is only taking orders, you’re leaving money on the table.

If you’re an operator trying to put your house in order for 2026, this one is for you.

00:00 Intro
01:36 Charge for refills?
05:02 Opening day lessons
10:26 Selling the restaurants
14:03 Starting the podcast
16:56 Operator challenges now
33:26 Menu Profit Accelerator
37:31 Training and sales

About Cali BBQ Media:

Shawn Walchef is the founder of Cali BBQ Media and creator of the Restaurant Influencers podcast on Entrepreneur Media, featuring famous names such as Shaquillle O'Neal and Emeril Lagasse.

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