The Demand
Before your next construction status meeting, put your construction timeline and your operational timeline — hiring, cast development, vendor setup, mock service — on the same master schedule, not separate documents. Identify the current construction slippage in weeks, and name exactly what it is doing to your operational calendar right now. Decide what you will protect (development time, mock service runs) and what you will not compress, before the pressure forces the decision for you.
The Work
Current construction schedule status — on time or behind, and by how many weeks:
General contractor and architect selected — yes or no, and the date:
Inspections identified and sequenced for your jurisdiction — yes or no:
What the current construction timeline is doing to your operational calendar (hiring, development, vendor setup, mock service):
The operational item most at risk of being compressed if construction runs longer:
Is that item something you will protect no matter what, or something you are willing to shorten:
The contingency — not optimism — you have built into your construction timeline:
The one action this week that keeps both timelines visible on the same schedule instead of two separate conversations:
44 years. 200+ independent operators coached. 34 restaurants opened from scratch.
I work with restaurant operators who know something is wrong and are ready to find out what it actually is — and with leaders who are ready to build something that lasts.
The complete framework is in my new book: The Operator’s Playbook
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