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Before you pre-order, before you commit to a volume, before you decide where to start — read this. The Operator’s Playbook System Overview covers the full five-volume architecture, the two entry points, what each binder contains, and how the Playbook and Fieldbook work together as a system. Eight pages. Everything you need to understand what you are buying and why it is built the way it is.

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“I only work with ambitious leaders who want to define their future, not hide from it.”

For 44 years I’ve worked inside independent restaurant operations — coaching operators, diagnosing what’s actually breaking, and building the systems that fix it. That work is still available. So is everything I’ve learned from it.

The Operator’s Playbook — a five-volume professional reference system for the independent restaurant operator — ships August 2026. Every fundamental. Every system. Built for operators who are done settling for good enough. Pre-order at jeffreysummers.com/the-operators-playbook.

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