• About
    • About Me & My Work
      • About Me
      • The Operator’s Assessment
      • The 100% Effective Guarantee
      • FAQs
    • About You & Your Business
      • About Your Perspective
      • About Your Product
      • About Your People
      • About Your Performance
      • About Your Profit
  • Thinking
    • From The Playbook Blog
    • The Operator’s Assessment
    • The Operator’s Principles
  • Learning
    • The Operator’s Assessment
    • ThinkWorx™ Workshops
    • Train-The-Trainer
    • Strategy Sessions & Meeting Facilitation
    • Public Speaking
  • Growing
    • Growing Your Business
      • The Operator’s Assessment
      • The OnsiteReview™
      • BizWorx™ Coaching
      • GrowthWorx™ Consulting
      • Financial Operations Review
      • Concept Development
      • Pre-Opening Consulting
      • Menu Engineering
      • Marketing & Branding
      • GuestX™ Mystery Shopping
    • Growing Your Cast
      • The Operator’s Assessment
      • The OnsiteReview™
      • Fractional Ops Leadership
      • Leadership Coaching
      • Leadership Team Coaching
      • Contingency Search
      • MIT Development
      • Mentoring
  • The Operator’s Playbook
    • About The Series
      • The Operator’s Playbook Overview
        • A Preview of the Introduction
      • How To Pre-Order
      • The Operator’s Assessment
    • About The Tools
      • Perspective — Volume 1 of 5
        • Two Roads — A Preview From Volume 1: Perspective
      • Product — Volume 2 of 5
      • People — Volume 3 of 5
      • Performance — Volume 4 of 5
      • Profit — Volume 5 of 5
  • About
    • About Me & My Work
      • About Me
      • The Operator’s Assessment
      • The 100% Effective Guarantee
      • FAQs
    • About You & Your Business
      • About Your Perspective
      • About Your Product
      • About Your People
      • About Your Performance
      • About Your Profit
  • Thinking
    • From The Playbook Blog
    • The Operator’s Assessment
    • The Operator’s Principles
  • Learning
    • The Operator’s Assessment
    • ThinkWorx™ Workshops
    • Train-The-Trainer
    • Strategy Sessions & Meeting Facilitation
    • Public Speaking
  • Growing
    • Growing Your Business
      • The Operator’s Assessment
      • The OnsiteReview™
      • BizWorx™ Coaching
      • GrowthWorx™ Consulting
      • Financial Operations Review
      • Concept Development
      • Pre-Opening Consulting
      • Menu Engineering
      • Marketing & Branding
      • GuestX™ Mystery Shopping
    • Growing Your Cast
      • The Operator’s Assessment
      • The OnsiteReview™
      • Fractional Ops Leadership
      • Leadership Coaching
      • Leadership Team Coaching
      • Contingency Search
      • MIT Development
      • Mentoring
  • The Operator’s Playbook
    • About The Series
      • The Operator’s Playbook Overview
        • A Preview of the Introduction
      • How To Pre-Order
      • The Operator’s Assessment
    • About The Tools
      • Perspective — Volume 1 of 5
        • Two Roads — A Preview From Volume 1: Perspective
      • Product — Volume 2 of 5
      • People — Volume 3 of 5
      • Performance — Volume 4 of 5
      • Profit — Volume 5 of 5

“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.

From The Playbook — field notes from 44 years on the stage, free every week. Subscribe at fromtheplaybook.com.

For consulting, coaching, and speaking inquiries: Jeffrey@JeffreySummers.com · +1-817-797-2929

The Operator’s Playbook


  • The Operator’s Assessment
  • The Operator’s Playbook Overview
  • A Preview of the Introduction
  • Perspective — Volume 1 of 5
  • Two Roads — A Preview From Volume 1: Perspective
  • Product — Volume 2 of 5
  • People — Volume 3 of 5
  • Performance — Volume 4 of 5
  • Profit — Volume 5 of 5
  • How To Pre-Order

Avg Cost To Replace:


  • Avg Tenure Of A Restaurant Employee Is 110 Days
  • BOH Restaurant Hourly Employee $2,800
  • FOH Restaurant Hourly Employee $2,200
  • Restaurant Executive $213,000
  • Restaurant Manager $15,000

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