Restaurants Eat Their Elders
The restaurant industry is elder-blind: it prices out tenure, replaces the veteran, and pays a consultant to reconstruct what walked out the door. The most valuable person in your building is the one with nothing left to prove.
The Labor Read
Labor is capacity, not cost — and every rule of thumb running the labor line treats it as the opposite. The steps the percentage can't see, and the design that replaces the default.
