Thursday, August 21, 2008

Positive Business Relationships:

Jerry Acuff’s “The Relationship Edge”, explores the strategies to work on relationships:

“Good relationships help us achieve abundant success in our lives

The building blocks of strong relationships are:

Believe others are important

Focus on others

Appreciate and understand people differences and their point of view

Make people feel important

Seek common ground by learning about people

Listen because you want to hear”

Restaurants are not only about food, they are about relationships. Too often someone will simply put a menu out and believe that their work is done. All the aspects of a business are fundamentally interwoven into relationships. The relationship between you and your customer, between your employees and your customers and between you and your employees, vendors, and suppliers will determine the success of the restaurant.