NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
Nashville,
get ready to transform your restaurant.
With 15+ hours of dedicated training over two days you’ll have the ability to choose from 5 unique tracks of breakout sessions that best fit the areas you want to focus on. We’ll have our R365 Solution Bar open the duration of the conference where you’ll be able to make appointments to meet one on one with a R365 trainer to walk through any questions and share best practice solutions. In addition you’ll have a chance to collaborate and problem solve with other R365 power users during our concept breakout and networking sessions.
We’re also bringing in first-class third party speakers and a Solutions Hall featuring top industry and emerging vendors – all of which integrate with R365. And last but certainly not least, we’re bringing all the fun with an after party you won’t want to miss! Don’t miss the industry event of the year!
SPONSORS
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Registration
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Opening
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
What’s New in R365 Product Update
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
The Rush: Right Tools, Right Time, Right Results
Learn how four different operators win the day and beyond with processes around Financial Reporting, Bank Activity, AvT, and Employee Training that strengthen team performance, streamline operations, control prime cost, and improve guest experiences.
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Table Talk - Networking Lunch
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Workshop Sessions
I. From Debits to Delight: A Beginner's Guide to Accounting
In this session, we'll look at automation and workflow tips and tricks that reduce time spent on entering accounting information and increase insight into financial performance. From AP invoices to bank reconciliation, discover new or new-to-you ways to get work done fast.
II. Operations 101
In this session, we'll show you how to slice and dice your operational data and how your workflows impact the financials in real-time. Uncover the benefits of connected accounting and operations for true, actionable transparency that adds to the bottom line.
III. Accelerating your Restaurant Hiring
As a restaurant operator, hiring and retaining employees can feel like a constant battle that’s never won. In this session we'll focus on ways to speed and automate your hiring.
IV. National Brand Track: Finances Made Easy
This session is designed to simplify the complexities of financial management in the restaurant franchise industry. From budgeting and cash flow analysis to understanding franchise fees and profit margins, this course provides practical insights and strategies to help franchise owners optimize their financial performance.
V. What Keeps a Restaurant Manager Up at Night
Restaurant managers know that the long-term success of a restaurant depends on many daily small choices at the store level. This session will provide tips for mastering your restaurant operations today in a way that bootst efficiency and long term profitability.
Ryan Medford, Owner
The Original Pancake House
Brian Herskovets, Director, Franchise Ops
Angry Crab Shack
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Workshop Sessions
I. Advanced Course: How to Audit your Accounting Database
Learn how to efficiently audit your restaurant's accounting database to ensure financial accuracy and compliance. This advanced session provides practical techniques and tools to identify discrepancies, streamline processes, and safeguard your restaurant's financial health.
II. Saucing Success: Advanced Tactics for Operational Efficiency
Explore advanced strategies and best practices for optimizing restaurant back-of-the-house operations, focusing on efficiency and cost control.
III. Setting Up for Success: Optimizing your Employee Management
With rising labor and increasingly broad and complex regulatory landscape, restaurants now more than ever must have a thorough understanding and plan to manage their most critical resource, their people. In this session we'll review labor tools to help you maximize your restaurant staff like never before.
IV. Purchase like a Pro: Ordering and Vendor Accountability
In this session, we'll tackle the common vendor challenges faced by restaurants and share essential reports that every restaurant operator needs in order to accurately track price fluctuations, analyze CoGS, and hold vendors feet to the fire to keep operating costs low in an unpredictable market.
V. National Brand Track: Optimizing Profit by Aligning Financial and Operational Data
Learn to boost your restaurants' profitability by seamlessly integrating financial and operational data. This session offers actionable insights and practical tools to streamline your processes, reduce costs, and maximize your bottom line.
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Break
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Workshop Sessions
I. National Brand Track: How to Streamline National Brand Operations
This session will cover tools and best practices that make it easy to get high-level and granular insights into how your entire franchise organization and individual locations are performing so you can focus on high performance and growth.
II. Top Tips to Control Labor Costs
Learn how to increase labor efficiency and productivity by creating more accurate forecasts, then setting weekly targets to hold your store-level managers accountable.
III. Boost Profits with Menu Engineering
Learn strategies that consistently grow margins alongside psychological and sales tactics that drive customers to order the dishes that add the most to your bottom line.
IV. Advanced Course: Beyond the Basics: Elevating Your Restaurant's Budgeting Game
Master advanced techniques for budgeting in your restaurant, ensuring financial stability and informed decision-making.
V. Practical Applications for AI in your Restaurant
Learn how you can embrace the potential of AI to enhance your operational efficiency and financial management.
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM ✦ KEYNOTE
The Future of AI in the Restaurant Industry
Chris Yeh
Co-founder
Chris Yeh is the co-founder of the Blitzscaling Academy, which teaches individuals and organizations how to plan for and execute on hypergrowth, and of Blitzscaling Ventures, which invests in the world’s fastest-growing startups. Chris has founded, advised, or invested in over 100 high-tech startups since 1995, including companies like Ustream (investor, advisor, CEO) and UserTesting.com (advisor). He is the co-author, along with Reid Hoffman, of Blitzscaling: The Lightning-fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies, and the co-author, along with Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha, of the New York Times bestseller, The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age. Chris earned two degrees from Stanford University, with distinction in both, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar.
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Backstage After Party
111 Broadway, Nashville, TN 37201
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Grab a spot, Nashville!
We’re excited for our third stop on the Restaurant Transformation Tour in Nashville. We have limited space available for the event.
Early bird pricing expires 11:59 PM on May 31st.
$699
General Admission
$549
Early Bird Pricing
JW Marriott Nashville
201 8th Ave S, Nashville, TN 37203
