The book
Restaurant Management: The Myth, The Magic, The Math.
Before there was Tempo, there was the idea behind it. Great restaurants aren’t built by choosing between hospitality and financial discipline. They require both.
In Restaurant Management: The Myth, the Magic, the Math, Bruce Nelson explores the operating and financial realities behind building a successful restaurant business.
Why it exists
Why Do Most Independent Restaurants Fail?
It usually isn’t the food. Beautiful menus and warm, inviting rooms are not in short supply. What’s often missing is the application of basic restaurant financial fundamentals.
The restaurant experience is the product. The numbers are the score. The book works through what that actually means, in the language of someone who has run the businesses rather than audited them from outside.
The throughline
Restaurants Are Interconnected Businesses.
The numbers matter because they reveal what operations, leadership, technology, menu design and hospitality are producing. The best financial systems do not run restaurants; they help good operators run them better.
That argument runs through the book, and it is the same one Tempo was built on. If it rings true, the work in Insights extends it, and Tempo Momentum applies it to a specific restaurant.
What readers say
Equal Parts Smart And Engaging.
About the author
Bruce Nelson.
Co-founder of Tempo Hospitality Group, with more than four decades of restaurant finance, operations and leadership experience — as restaurant owner, general manager, chef instructor and financial executive.
He has served on the boards of Hospitality Minnesota and the Hospitality Technology Network. More about the people behind Tempo.
Read it
The Business Strategies Behind A Restaurant That Lasts.
Available on Kindle and Audible. If you’d rather work through the same ideas against your own numbers, that’s what Momentum is for.