The Operator
Execution, delivery and performance, gets the hard thing done.
Jon Taffer operates, in the strictest sense of The Operator. The Bar Rescue creator and hospitality consultant reduces marketing to three non-negotiable buckets and insists behavioural change precede any physical overhaul.
“Wasn't there. So it was a real battle running to Troubadour. It turned into a system whereby I took the money home with me every night and then came back in the morning with it so I could buy liquor and such. But here's a funny story. When I took over the Troubadour, we had about two inches of water in the kitchen, a flood.”
“I've been looking at a number of books. It's interesting. I just read one of mine again the other day. Don't BS Yourself. But there's a book that I love that I've been telling friends to read that I read years ago and I pulled it out again. It's called E-Myth Revisited. And it's a book about the entrepreneurial myth.”
“You will never blanking be on television. You're too old. You're not good looking enough. It'll never happen. So I drive out of the Paramount Gates, a little disappointed, and I say, you know what? I'm going to do this myself. So when I shot my own sizzle reel, which is sort of a three-minute version of the show.”
“Well, I think Wilde is a good word. This was a very different time in our society. It was pre AIDS. So the sexual revolution was still going on in those days. There was no gang activity, no threat of violence.”
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