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It’s About People

Spiro Pappadopoulos

In a stellar restaurant the separation from good to great is primarily created through the ability to cultivate a team of intellectually invested people who have a common goal. A goal to provide hospitality in a way that delights their guests. This goal applies to all hospitality businesses, it can apply to a small mom and pop hamburger shop and to a five star restaurant, to a Surfer Hostel and a Luxury Resort. The principles are the core, the facilities are the tools to deliver.

When an establishment has a clear set of goals, what it wants to deliver, what is the specialty, what the public will understand it to be, and how the team can stay within these parameters, finding the right people to take part will be easier. Once they are part of the team and allowed to create and deliver, there may be coaching moments to keep them on the path to deliver the goals, but they will more often push the project further than need coaching.

Its a win win.

This is not a trick, it is a plan. One that delivers the autonomy and patience to the team members to pursue an area of interest to them for profit and enjoyment. This is the idea. Creating the opportunity for someone to join the team who is doing what they love as their occupation.

This is a job for someone who has vision, belief, and the ability to take a well intentioned leap of faith. We are not cherry picking ripe figs from the branches of a tree that grew in our backyard without any care. We are cultivating, watering, pruning, and enabling these team members to blossom and grow into their potential. When they do, they will benefit, our guests will benefit, and the business will benefit. Without all three, how successful are we?

The architecture of your team, is your responsibility, it is the most challenging and most rewarding part of building these unique establishments. To my teams, I look forward to the big steps in front of us as we all grow, and deliver experiences that delight our guests along the way.

I am Spirocks on Twitter.

Filed Under: Boston, Food and Drink, Just Think, Make Local Sell Local Tagged With: hospitality management, restaurant management, spirocks, team building

Twitter Contest for Restaurant Marketing

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Running a little contest on Twitter for Sauce Wings:

Win a @SauceWings T-shirt, Burger, and Wings –>Predict the Score of the Pats game. Go:

— Spiro Pappadopoulos (@spirocks) September 29, 2013

Here are the entrants:

@spirocks 31Pats-28Falcons — Andrew J Brown, Jr (@ajqiz) September 29, 2013

@spirocks @SauceWings Falcons 23 Pats 31 — Kevin Collins (@brooklynirish39) September 29, 2013

@spirocks @SauceWings Patriots .23. Falcons 20 — John Dorney (@JohnDorney) September 29, 2013

@spirocks @SauceWings Falcons 30 – Patriots 17 — Shawn Hutcheon (@ShawnHutcheon) September 29, 2013

@spirocks @SauceWings 27-24 Pats. 1 Brady TD. 1 Ridley and 1 Bolden TD — Scott Masterson (@cjanneyfan23) September 29, 2013

 

23 – 17 I call a defensive score! RT @spirocks: Win a @SauceWings T-shirt, Burger, and Wings –>Predict the Score of the Pats game. Go: — John Clark (@johnboyrx) September 29, 2013

@spirocks @SauceWings Score 35-28 Pats — Alex Belisle (@abelisle4) September 29, 2013

@spirocks @SauceWings Pats 31 Falcons 23 — Kevin Collins (@brooklynirish39) September 30, 2013

@spirocks @SauceWings Pats 31-20. — Kathryn Siranosian (@CorpWriters) September 30, 2013

@spirocks @SauceWings Pats 31- 23. — Larry Lawson (@larrylawson72) September 30, 2013

 

@spirocks @SauceWings pats 27 falcons 20

— Katie Collins (@skrten30) September 30, 2013

 

Restaurant Marketing with Twitter.

I am Spirocks on Twitter.

Filed Under: Boston, Food and Drink Tagged With: restaurant marketing, Twitter Contest

Fire on West Canton and Columbus, Boston 6-9-13

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Dinner with my wife tonight ended dramatically as this unfolded:
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I am Spirocks on Twitter.

Filed Under: Boston Tagged With: boston fire photos

Boston Restaurant crushes Cinco de Mayo with an epic pig roast:

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So Cinco de Mayo fell on a Sunday and you always want your restaurant to celebrate it right and profitably… Chef Michael Schlow knew how to do it when he threw a huge pig roast at Tico.

Sure enough hundreds of Bostonians showed up to partake  including yours truly.

There is something about a whole pig, expertly roasting in the middle of a party that makes it that much better.

On both fun and business accounts this idea was a huge success, from the crispy skin to the demolished piñatas there wasn’t a sad face in the crowd.

I am Spirocks on Twitter.

Filed Under: Boston, Food and Drink Tagged With: Boston patio party, Boston pig roast

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