Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week! Gratitude – I’m taking a break from my usual format this week to consider just one subject, gratitude. I know it’s sort of cliché to talk about being grateful on Thanksgiving, but sometimes we all need a little reminder to take a moment to … Continue reading 1 Thing to Consider This Week…12/2/19 →

Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week! Culture – Unapologetically Ourselves. There are people in this world who love us and there are people in the world who don’t. Being in the hospitality industry, more specifically the pizza and booze industry, we’re in a unique situation where our doors are open … Continue reading 5 Things to Consider This Week…11/25/19 →

Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week! Culture – Culture is the way we behave. We can scream till we’re blue in the face about our Mission, Vision and Values, but the thing that defines our culture more than anything is our actions. Are we, as leaders, sending the right message … Continue reading 5 Things to Consider This Week…11/18/19 →

Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week! Culture – Compassion for people’s personal experiences. Barack Obama has spoken about our ability to “recognize ourselves in each other.” Having empathy, or the ability to relate and understand the feelings of someone else is something we place extreme value on as a company … Continue reading 5 Things to Consider This Week…11/11/19 →

Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week! Culture – Radical Vulnerability. It takes courage to be vulnerable. Putting yourself out there for everyone to see and judge takes guts. Telling people you screwed up and you’re sorry is just plain hard. In my opinion, being vulnerable is one of the most … Continue reading 5 Things to Consider This Week…11/4/19 →

Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week! Culture – Things Get Harder. I know this sounds pessimistic, but damn if it doesn’t feel like it sometimes. It’s kind of the opposite of what you’d commonly think. As you do something longer, you get better at it and it gets easier, right? … Continue reading 5 Things to Consider This Week…10/28/19 →

Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week! Culture – Two steps forward, one step back. I recently had one of those moments when, what they call in the business, a “hard truth” reared its ugly head. I was talking with Heidi about how it seems like sometimes we routinely, almost predictably, … Continue reading 5 Things to Consider This Week…10/21/19 →

Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week! Culture – Who Profits from This? This is a question I’ve been asking myself a lot lately. When we talk about making a change in one of our processes or systems, no matter if it’s a total overhaul or a simple adjustment, the question … Continue reading 5 Things to Consider This Week…10/14/19 →

Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week! Culture – Rock n Roll Pizza Church. There’s a phrase that kept coming up during the construction of the Cincinnati location as I would give tours and that was “Rock n Roll Pizza Church.” It was how I would describe the LNS side of … Continue reading 5 Things to Consider This Week…10/7/19 →

Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week! Culture – Teach people how to think. I was having a conversation the other day with another restaurant company owner. We were talking about training and how to best approach developing a full-blown training program. He said to me, “Mikey, you can’t teach your … Continue reading 5 Things to Consider This Week…9/30/19 →