INTERVIEW | Make Money by Turning Restaurant Chaos Into Profit With Roger Beaudoin

About this episode

Roger Beaudoin shares his journey from launching a restaurant with no experience to building a profitable business and helping others in the hospitality industry.

Roger Beaudoin is a restaurant entrepreneur, speaker, author, and founder of Restaurant Rockstars. After building, scaling, and selling multiple successful restaurants, Roger now helps hospitality operators increase profits, improve operations, and build stronger teams. In this episode, Roger shares the lessons he learned from launching a restaurant with no prior experience, overcoming major setbacks, and applying business systems to an industry where many owners struggle to work on the business instead of in it. On this episode we talk about: Roger’s first entrepreneurial ventures, from beachside lemonade sales to campus businesses How he launched a restaurant despite having no restaurant ownership experience The costly $40,000 lesson that nearly derailed his first restaurant before it opened The systems and marketing strategies that helped build a highly profitable restaurant business Why most restaurant owners are running restaurants instead of running businesses Building Restaurant Rockstars and helping operators uncover hidden profits How podcasting has become a platform for teaching and connecting with industry leaders Roger’s passion for classic cars and the story behind…

People in this episode

Host: Travis Chappell

Guest: Roger Beaudoin

Topics covered

• restaurant entrepreneurship
• business systems
• profitability
• marketing strategies
• hospitality operations
• overcoming setbacks

Keywords

• restaurant chaos
• profit
• business systems
• entrepreneurship
• marketing
• hospitality
• operations
• classic cars

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Restaurant Rockstars, Classic Car Guy Podcast

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