I wrote this book for the restaurant owner who knows something is wrong but cannot get a clear answer.You may have one restaurant or a small group. You may be the chef, the general manager, the bookkeeper, and the person who unlocks the door in the morning. You may have good people working for you, but no dependable operating system holding everything together.You may never hire a turnaround consultant. This book is designed to give you the questions I would ask, the areas I would inspect, the evidence I would require, the controls I would install, and the 90-day sequence I would use if you had hired me.

This is the book I would place in your hands if you called me, explained that the restaurant was slipping away, and told me you could not afford to hire me.

Perhaps you bought this book for yourself. Perhaps your spouse, partner, family member, chef, or general manager bought it because they can see what the restaurant is doing to you. They see the long hours, the missed sleep, the cash pressure, the arguments, the emergency calls, and the way every day seems to create another problem before the previous one is solved.

You do not need another person telling you to work harder. Most restaurant owners are already working too hard. You need to know whether your effort is being applied to the right problems, whether the information reaching you is true, and whether the restaurant can operate properly when you are not personally standing in the middle of it.

That is what CONTROL 90 is designed to do.