What if you have to go deeper into the day to day before you can ever get out of it?
Brianna Keefe spent her entire first year inside one store, open to close, writing the systems by hand and training every person who walked through the door. That year is the reason she can now be nowhere near the sixty five stores operating under her name.
In this conversation, we get into why delegation collapses when the founder steps back too early, why she hires her support team a full year before the business needs them, and why her best performing store sits in a market she would never have chosen herself.
If you are the bottleneck in your own business, this one explains how you got there.
The Playbook Takeaways
- Go deeper before you get out. Brianna Keefe spent her first year inside one store, open to close, writing the systems by hand and training every person who walked through the door. That year is why she can now be nowhere near the 65 stores operating under her name.
- Stepping back too early breaks delegation. When the founder leaves before the systems exist, delegation collapses and the owner becomes the bottleneck again.
- Hire support a year ahead. She builds her support team a full year before the business needs it, and her best-performing store sits in a market she would never have chosen herself.
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About the Author: Josh Kopel is a Michelin-awarded restaurateur, host of the Full Comp podcast, and creator of the Restaurant Scaling System, which helps independent owners grow profitable restaurants through AI-powered marketing. More about Josh · Learn with Josh
