Profit Book
5.X Start Now
Last Updated: August 28, 20265.X — Start Now Whatever your timeline — five years, ten years, twenty years, or no firm plan at all — start building toward transferability today. Not because an exit is imminent. Because the business that’s ready to be sold is the business that’s ready for anything. I reviewed a three-unit operation whose community brand...
5.X Stop Cutting. Start Building.
Last Updated: August 28, 20265.X — Stop Cutting. Start Building. There’s a disease in this industry: the obsession with cost-cutting as the primary path to profitability. An operator’s margins get thin and the first instinct is to cut. Cut portion sizes. Cut staff. Cut marketing. Cut training. Cut quality. Cut, cut, cut — until there’s nothing left to cut...
5.X The Lease You Can Actually Sell
Last Updated: August 28, 20265.X — The Lease You Can Actually Sell Every operator who builds something worth owning should be building something worth selling — even if selling is the last thing on their mind on opening day. The lease is where most exits die before they start. You can build a real Guest base, a trained cast,...