Opened @amorezionsville in 2003. Now I build what runs it. CFO https://xitter.cf/t.co/8TcisxnRIi · AI @simplyoperated · trades https://xitter.cf/t.co/clRH1Cs3CR · pizzeria app @keepthedough
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Chris Simone retweeted
Bruce Lee was right when he said:
“The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks, and observes.”
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There is unlimited demand for people with high energy, intelligence, and integrity.
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If a supplier credit memo gets entered as a positive, your food cost goes up by double the credit instead of down.
Our invoice reader spots credit memos and subtracts them.
Check how yours get entered.
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Catering orders used to come in by email and get typed onto the calendar by hand.
Now they land on the calendar the second they come in.
Not every fix saves an hour. Some just remove the one step where mistakes happen.
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A delivery app order brought us about $10.46 after everything came out.
A walk-in order: about $20.66.
Bigger ticket on the app, half the money. Know what each channel actually leaves you before you push it.
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The question to ask anyone selling you automation: what happens when it breaks quietly?
My own dashboard said "healthy" for 50 days with a dead feed behind it.
Now something checks the checker. Every 5 minutes.
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Keep the Dough puts your pizzeria's real numbers on your phone, live.
Here's everything in it now. 🧵
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Are your prices in line with the pizzerias around you?
Get your menu lined up against the shops near you, item by item and size by size, by email. Free. No call.
keepthedough.com
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I ran an experiment on my own restaurant's Facebook page.
The year before: about 2 posts a week, and 20 weeks with nothing at all.
First 4 weeks automated: 10 posts a week, 12.5x the views, 9x the new followers. No ads. No boosts.
Same page. Just consistent.
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"A Tiger wearing a bell will starve." - Mongolian proverb
Never let them see you coming.
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To be effective in anything in life, you will need to remove as much of the friction that is keeping you from doing that thing as you possibly can.
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Obsession + pattern recognition + not giving a f*ck + delusional optimism is the highest form of intelligence.
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The 18-inch is 24% of the pies we sell in the building. On the delivery apps it's 12%.
It's a dine-in and carryout pizza. It's family dinner.
Before you cut an item for weak app sales, check where it actually sells.
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I wrote a short book: How Do I Know My Business Is Making Money?
It's free. So is the Leak Report: twelve questions, about five minutes, and you get your leaks ranked by what each one costs.
You can stop at the report.
simplyoperated.com
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Major cheat code for life: Assume good things are still ahead. You are not behind. You are not too late. You are not disqualified by your past. One new season can change the entire story. Keep showing up with belief. The best chapters are often written after the hardest ones.