SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
SEPTEMBER 21-23
San Diego,
get ready to transform your restaurant.
You’re invited to R365’s Restaurant Transformation Festival. We’re excited to bring together clients, partners, and industry leaders for more than two days of learning and connecting to inspire and support you in pursuit of your most ambitious goals.
Get ready to level up accounting, inventory and purchasing, HR, and payroll with the help of Restaurant365 experts, executives, and a handful of the business’ biggest names.
Space is limited, so be sure to secure your spot early!
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5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Registration & Cocktail Welcome Reception
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
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Registration
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Turning Data into Dollars with Efficient Managers
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Product Update: Let's Look Ahead!
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Break
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Workshop Sessions
I. Advanced Course: The Secret Ingredient - Advanced Recipe Management
Further refine your costs and operations with advanced recipe management. Our industry veterans will review the finer points of menu item configuration, sales mix sizing, menu concatenation, and more.
II. How to Streamline Restaurant Payroll
Discover the secrets to efficient restaurant payroll management. Learn practical strategies and tools to simplify payroll processes, ensure accuracy, and save time, allowing you to focus more on running your restaurant.
III. Smart Solutions for Happy Staff: Enhancing Restaurant Employee Training and Task Management
In this session we’ll explore proven strategies for enhancing restaurant staff satisfaction and retention including AI-fueled personalized training programs, task management and more.
IV. Crafting your Numbers: The Art of Custom Financial Reporting
This workshop is created based upon the custom reports YOU would like to learn how to create. Learn to leverage your restaurant's unique data to make informed decisions, drive profitability, and gain a competitive edge in the industry.
V. National Brand Track: What Keeps a Restaurant CFO up at Night?
Join us as we dive into the unique challenges and responsibilities faced by franchise CFOs. Covering topics such as financial risk management, cost control, and maximizing profitability, this course offers invaluable insights and solutions to help CFOs navigate the complexities of the restaurant industry.
Bill Valentas, CFO
Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers
Andrei Stern, CFO
SUVICHE HOSPITALITY GROUP
Scott Miller, CFO
Cotti Foods
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Table Talk - Networking Lunch
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Workshop Sessions
I. Teaching CoGS to your Restaurant Managers
In this workshop, we’ll discuss the basics of calculating CoGS (correctly), how to ensure your managers embrace their importance and drive a sustained effort to control them in pursuit of growing profit.
II. Financial Reports at your Fingertips
Unlock the secrets to financial success with our session on ready to use canned reports. Learn how to effortlessly generate insightful reports that drive smarter decisions and boost your restaurant's profitability.
III. Using Intelligence to Create a Data Driven Restaurant Culture
In a data-driven restaurant culture, everyone in your business who can impact efficiency and profitability must understand how to measurably improve business outcomes. Learn how to seed that culture in this session focusing on business intelligence in your restaurant.
IV. Advanced Course: Maximize Labor - Advanced Tracking and Reporting
Learn essential strategies and tools for setting up effective restaurant labor tracking and reporting systems, ensuring streamlined operations and optimized profitability. This course equips you with the knowledge to enhance efficiency and enable informed decision-making in restaurant management.
V. National Brand Track: Strategies for Employee Retention in your Operation
This session is designed to help national brand operators optimize their staff's performance and increase happiness. Learn proven techniques for boosting employee satisfaction, reducing turnover, and fostering a positive work environment that drives success.
Prakash Karamchandani, CEO & Co-Founder
Balance Grille
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM
Break
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Concept Breakouts
& The Dish with Arnold Myint
I. Casual Dining
II. Fine Dining
III. Quick Service
IV. Fast Casual
Arnold Myint
Chef and Owner
International Market
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
State of the Industry Customer Panel
Walid Jamal, President
JHG
Rebecca Stewart, VP of Tech
HuHot Mongolian Grill
Prakash Karamchandani, CEO & Co-Founder
Balance Grille
Melissa Rickman, Founder, CEO & Executive Chef
Wholly Stromboli
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Wrap Up: Top 15 Takeaways to ROCK Away With
CONVINCE YOUR BOSS
Grab a spot, San Diego!
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 June 30th.
$549
Early Bird Pricing
$699
General Admission