LEARN.

Short, practical reads on leading a team, the numbers, sales, marketing, service and standards. Pick a subject, or pick where you are in your career.

• Leadership

  Leadership, 6 min read

  Leading through your GMs: how to run a group when you can't be in every site

  The weekly rhythm, the few numbers and the site visits that let you lead several venues through their general managers, instead of running round all of them yourself.

• Numbers

  Numbers, 6 min read

  Buying across sites: procurement when you go from one venue to five

  How to move from every chef buying their own way to one buying system across your sites: specs, a short supplier list, price checks and credit notes, without losing what made each venue good.

• Sales

  Sales, 5 min read

  What a sales manager actually does (and whether you need one)

  Events, private hire, regulars and getting your venues to send each other trade: the sales role explained, with the maths on a single party.