The Restaurant Success Podcast
The Restaurant Success Podcast is a weekly podcast for Restaurant owners full of information about how to run and improve your business.
What's the point of growing a restaurant company if it doesn’t maximize relationships and profits?
What's the point of being successful if you can’t maximize your net worth while enjoying every minute?
Matthew Mabel encourages successful independent multi-unit restaurateurs to "be as good to yourself as you are to your guests" in everything they do.
“Owning an independent multi-unit restaurant company ought to be a joy. Let’s make it that way," he says.
Based out of Dallas, Matthew’s devoted to improving the lives and businesses of successful independent restaurateurs.
The Restaurant Success Podcast
Texas Restaurant Show 2025: Networking, Growth Strategies, and Performance Optimization
Join Matthew Mabel as he previews his upcoming speaking engagements at the Texas Restaurant Show, the second-largest restaurant industry event in the country. Matthew discusses why this premier trade show is invaluable for restaurant owners and operators, featuring over 500 booths and attracting 5,500 restaurant professionals. He details his two speaking sessions on restaurant performance optimization and business growth strategies for 2025, covering people management, financial metrics, menu engineering, and expansion tactics. This episode is essential for restaurant entrepreneurs seeking to enhance their business operations and build more profitable restaurant enterprises.
Key Topics Covered
- Texas Restaurant Show overview and industry significance
- Restaurant performance optimization strategies
- Business growth tactics for multi-unit operations
- People management and employee engagement
- Financial metrics and profit improvement
- Menu engineering and technology integration
- Networking opportunities for restaurant entrepreneurs
- Real estate and expansion strategies
- Personal freedom and flexibility for restaurant owners
Links Mentioned
Resources Mentioned
- Website: www.surrender.biz
- Free initial consultation available
- Email for Texas Restaurant Show meetup: matthew@surrender.biz
Connect with Matthew Mabel
Matthew works with owners of successful, independent, multi-unit restaurants to improve:
- Profit growth
- Sales optimization
- Guest count increase
- Unit expansion
- Employee engagement
- Brand loyalty
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Hello, and welcome to the Restaurant Success Podcast. I'm Matthew Mabel, veteran restaurant advisor, coach, consultant, and speaker devoted to multi-unit independent restaurant unit, profit and revenue growth, internal harmony and ownership freedom and flexibility.
This is your weekly entree of the advice, strategy and tactics that I currently provide to my best clients.
Today we're doing something a little different with an abbreviated podcast where I want to talk about what I'll be up to this weekend at the Texas Restaurant Show. I'll share why this event is such a valuable opportunity for restaurant owners and operators, and I'll tell you about the two sessions I've been asked to speak at on Sunday.
The Texas Restaurant Show is really a premier event in our industry.
It's an incredible opportunity to connect with your peers, explore more than five hundred booths featuring cutting-edge products and services, and gain invaluable insights through three days of educational sessions led by top professionals and business leaders. This is the second-largest restaurant show in the country, and they typically get about fifty-five hundred operators who come to learn, network, and have some fun outside of the show floor.
On Sunday, July twentieth, I've been asked to speak at two sessions, and I'm really excited about both of them. The first one is called "Increasing Your Restaurants' Performance." It's presented by restaurantowner.com, and I'll be talking about the most powerful basic strategies right now. We're going to cover people, numbers, menu tech, and growth related issues. This session is at twelve thirty PM on the Profit Lab stage right on the show floor.
Then, I catch my breath, and do my stretches before a one forty-five panel on the same stage.
This one's part of an all-star team discussing "Give It the Gas: Growing Your Business, Your People and Your Profits TODAY."
The panel is going to go deep into business growth strategies for twenty twenty-five, covering finance, real estate, and people.
I always tell people to bring their thoughts and questions when they come to these events. I'd love to hear from you, and these sessions are really interactive opportunities.
Speaking at the Texas Restaurant Show has become a regular routine for me over the years, and it's allowed me to meet and help so many restaurateurs. The connections I've made there have been incredible, and I've seen firsthand how valuable these events can be for operators looking to take their businesses to the next level.
If you're on the fence about attending, or if procrastination is your style, know that it's not too late to make plans to attend. You can register through the link in the show notes.
And here's something I want to offer specifically to my podcast listeners. If you'd like to meet me in person at the show and have a fifteen-minute conversation about your restaurants and how to make them better, or how to set them up to give you more personal freedom, you'll find an email address in the show notes and just send me a message there. These one-on-one conversations are always some of the most valuable parts of these events for me.
I hope to see you this weekend in Houston!
Let me tell you about how we might work together. I work with owners of successful, independent, multi-unit restaurants to grow their profit, sales, guest count, and unit count. My unique approach bonds employees and guests to restaurant brands and allows owners to enjoy the freedom and flexibility they have earned.
To schedule a call with me to discuss how to achieve your biggest goals, follow the link in the show notes. The initial consultation is complimentary, and we can discuss which big moves might be right for your operation.
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Also find tons of information you can use in print, audio and video form at my website, www dot surrender dot biz. Thanks again and see you next time.