Have big plans to run your dream restaurant…
…but even BIGGER doubts and question marks are holding you back?
Start and run your restaurant with confidence with the Restaurant Academy
Introducing
The Restaurant Academy
Expert-designed | Self-paced | Startup-friendly
The complete start-up roadmap and restaurant ownership system to make YOU the rockstar of your super popular and highly profitable restaurant.
Featured & Trusted by:
“The Academy addresses how to run a restaurant like a business, focusing on systems and structures that are critical to success …
There are few tools that I would consider non-negotiable for entrepreneurs. But for anyone starting or running a restaurant, I would absolutely consider the Rockstar Academy one of those non-negotiables. ”
Brett P.
International Franchise Director
The Restaurant Academy sets restaurant owners on a course for success. Listen to what Brett Payne has to say.
We see you aspiring restaurateur
With all your dream-building aspirations
You’ve got everything mapped out.
You’ve got the vision.
You’ve got plans.
On paper.
What stands between you and making those dreams a reality are…
- Complex rules and regulations
- Overwhelming decisions
- Confusing advice
- And self-doubt
And what started with one simple question…
“How hard can it be to open a restaurant?”
…has quickly turned into…
“Wow, where do I even start?”
And some days you’re wondering whether you’re ACTUALLY cut out for it.
Ready to rock your dream AND profits?
Owning a restaurant can be a hard slog with long hours, a shrinking bottom line and an ever-growing list of question marks.
Finding you here sussing out your options can only mean 1 of 2 things:
- You’ve lived the slog and are here to FINALLY do something about it
- You’ve seen others struggle and don’t want to follow in their footsteps
No matter which camp you belong to…
We applaud you for taking the RIGHT step towards rocking YOUR restaurant―whether it’s still a dream or you’re already serving customers.
Restaurant Rockstars’ online courses for restaurant owners will set you up for success at every step of your restaurateur journey.
We’ve got the MBA so you don’t have to.
What if you could piggyback on an award-winning industry expert’s business lessons?
And finally take REAL action, avoid costly mistakes and turn those dreams into a smashing success.
Thankfully it IS possible to open and run a profitable restaurant without…
- Years of industry experience
- An MBA in your back pocket
- A small fortune to start with
What you REALLY need is tried-and-tested expert advice that gives you next-level clarity, debunks the myths and cuts through the fluff in ALL aspects of owning a restaurant.
And the drive to make it happen, of course!
The Restaurant Rockstars Academy includes these self-paced online modules to help you map your rockstar journey
Get instant access to:
Logistics
Everything you need to know and do before you open the doors of your restaurant. Learn about: Licenses, Permits, Business Plans, Equipment, Getting Your Business Funded, Buying vs. Leasing + more.
Finances
You take money to the bank! Learn Critical Cost Controls, How to Maximize Your Profits, How to Manage Your Inventory, How To Cost Out Your Menu + more.
Staff Sales Training
Empower your front-of-house team to double if not triple your sales and deliver amazing dining experiences. Trackable Sales Training, Team Building & Effective Pre-Shift Exercises + more.
Marketing
Build both new and repeat business quickly! Learn how to Build your Brand, Attract Loyal Customers, Start a popular Mug Club, Market on Social Media + more.
Efficiencies
Learn how to: Stay Ahead of the Competition, Plan For Preventative Maintenance of Equipment, Properly Handle Cash, Reduce Waste and Spoilage + more.
Profit Centers
Get ideas for multiple lucrative profit centers that you can add to your business: Catering, Retail Merchandise, Packaged Foods to Go, Entertainment + more.
Module
Restaurant Finances
Pinpoint your weak spots, run a tighter ship and increase your profits FOR GOOD.
An easy-to-learn and understand crash course in critical restaurant numbers to set you up with the RIGHT cost controls and maximize your profit.
After this module you’ll have the tools and strategies to:
- Set up an Inventory system to track food & beverage costs
- Know your Daily Break-Even Sales
- Make a profit-focussed decision around opening days and times
- Cost out each menu item and determine the profit per dish
- Differentiate most popular vs most profitable dishes
- Maximize profit on every item you sell
- Save 4-5% weekly on your food cost
- Optimize scheduling efficiency and decrease labor cost
- Budget for seasonal operations
“When you can show a server or bartender a proven formula to easily increase their personal income by enhancing the guest service experience, I guarantee they will listen!
The system works and demonstrates how going above and beyond through suggestive selling increases sales and profits and directly impacts tips.”
Matt W.
Owner/General Manager of Myst, Old Orchard Beach, Maine
Module
Sales Stars Staff Training
The game-changing training program for you and your ENTIRE full-service and fast-casual restaurant staff to increase your sales, deliver standout dining experiences and grow repeat business.
Integrate proven daily pre-shift exercises that take little time but DRASTICALLY impact sales.
After this module you’ll have the sales and staff training strategies to:
- Avoid losing customers
- Build and run a Brand, not just a restaurant
- Use great service to overcome mistakes or meal hiccups
- Bring the menu to life
- Double your sales with hidden sales opportunities
- Control your tables and stay out of the weeds
- Keep kids happy and brings parents back for more
- Understand the basics of wine service
- Know when NOT to sell
“I highly recommend restaurants use Restaurant Rockstars. Happy guests, happy team, happy owners. What could be better?
The Restaurant Rockstars program has been a great tool to help ensure our guests have a great experience each time they visit our establishment, has helped increase sales, and empowered our team members to be their own brand within our brand. Owners and managers will love Restaurant Rockstars because of the sales increase, and team members will love it because their tips increase! Perfect win/win situation!”
Christopher Nichols
Module
Logistics
The step-by-step roadmap to starting a new restaurant or buying an existing one.
After this module you’ll have the clarity and confidence to navigate:
- Financing a new restaurant start-up or purchase
- Writing a business plan to attract investors
- Keeping your project on-track
- Legal protection and tax benefits
- Necessary permits, licenses and insurance
- Lease or purchase negotiations
- Deciding on and sourcing equipment (new vs. used)
- Selecting and working with vendors
“Roger Beaudoin has created a great restaurant and staff training program. It’s simple, down-to-earth, and it works.
Roger is a successful industry veteran and his program is a fabulous resource for every restaurant. Roger is the “real deal” and his product is of real value.
Dick Groton
ME Restaurant Association Retired President & Executive Director
Module
Marketing
An easy-to-implement marketing system jam-packed with trackable concepts and strategies that bring proven return on investment.
After this module you’ll have the winning marketing strategies to:
- Start and grow a powerful restaurant brand
- Build a kid-friendly restaurant that drives sales
- Cash in on business partnerships for new customer growth
- Encourage first-time customers to return SOONER
- Craft effective hooks and competitive advantages
- Create multiple profit centers
- Start and grow a Mug Club for extra revenue and loyalty
- Use social media strategy effectively
- Manage your reputation
- Market to your best customers
- Start a live entertainment program
- Increase sales on slow nights
“Roger is a wealth of knowledge with all facets of the restaurant business. He shares freely his secrets to running a successful restaurant.
Going through his coaching program has been a huge help! The end result will pay dividends…
Brian K.
Restauranteur/GM, Hailey, ID
Module
Efficiencies
Profit-growing and process-optimizing strategies for all aspects of your restaurant.
After this module you’ll know the game-changing tips and tricks to master:
- Staying ahead of your competition
- Reducing spoilage, waste and theft
- Portion control procedures
- Equipment preventative maintenance
- Cash handling best practices
- Comparing and shopping multiple vendors
- Abuses behind the bar
“If you follow the program it should pay for itself immediately. Sales Stars Server Training will give you what you need to train the difference.
With 35 years of experience in operating restaurants from top to bottom, I can say Sales Stars Server Training is perfect for any restaurant wanting to increase sales, profits, and their guest dining experience. It’s perfect for your servers, managers, and guest. Your servers will increase their tips, your guest will have a knowledgeable server providing a great dining experience, and management has a standard to follow up and train on.
Ken W.
has managed and/or owned MATTERHORN SKI BAR, SURF 6 AND MYST
Module
Profit Centers
Make more money, often in the same amount of time, by recognizing all of the potential profit centers at your restaurant.
After this module you’ll have several actionable ideas to maximize your revenues, including:
- Retail
- Brand Extensions
- Kids Activities
- Entertainment
- Mug Clubs
- Events
What if you had the strategies and tools to maximize your profits and run a wildly successful restaurant?
You could finally stop flying by the seat of your pants and grow your restaurant with next-level confidence.
Your restaurant might be busy, but that doesn’t mean you’re making as much as you could.
Have you ever wondered…
And that means you’re leaving the BIG financial decisions to chance simply because you don’t know where to start.
Thankfully you CAN be that restaurant owner who has confidence in EVERY decision you make.
It’s not a select few who are BORN a numbers person.
Numbers smarts are within all of us.
Often it just takes one aha-moment to wake them up.
And once you tap into this superpower, you’ll finally start to…
- Question things
- Discover new efficiencies
- Rock new, BIGGER profit margins
And you wish you’d fallen in love with the financial ins and outs that can make (or break) your business much sooner!
Train and empower your staff
Empower your front-of-house staff members to double your sales by directing them to complete the Sales Stars Staff Training module. This module contains training + digital quizzes! Your front-of-house managers will use this module on a daily/weekly basis.
Empower your back-of-house leaders to maximize your menu profits, streamline your inventory, save on food costs, and dial in all your critical kitchen numbers by directing them to complete the Finances Module.
Empower your GM to build both new and repeat business by completing the Marketing and Profit Centers modules.
The Academy allows you to take massive action & achieve massive success!
And this is how we’ll upskill your ENTIRE team from management to floor staff
Learnings specifically designed for your floor staff:
Introduction and Selling Tools
Get your entire team onboard by covering what’s in it for THEM and sharing the proven sales tools to get them started.
Rockstar Sales Strategies
Let’s explore how your entire team can start selling instead of simply taking orders. After this module your staff will have the tactics to create sales opportunities and boost the customer experience while increasing YOUR profits (and THEIR tips).
Teamwork Tactics
Let’s explore the strategies that effectively turn your staff into a collaborative TEAM. After this module you’ll have all the tactics to create a team culture that grows team loyalty and encourages raving customer reviews.
Here’s a hint: It’s about maximizing EVERY customer, EVERY time
And thankfully there’s a system to the madness
A rockstar sales team that knows how to serve, but more importantly…
HOW TO SELL.
And we’ve got the sales training system for restaurant staff that ticks all the boxes…
Bigger Bottom Line
Lower Staff Turnover
Next-level experience for your guests
Happier Team Members
You’re looking at the ultimate win-win for you, your staff AND your customers.
Why study with Restaurant Rockstars?
Expert-designed systems
Self-paced learning
Startup-friendly price point
Tried-and-tested formulas
24/7 Access
Want to DOUBLE your profits by growing a loyal, customer-savvy rockstar sales team?
Let us show you how.
Your customers deserve an unforgettable dining experience and you deserve the chunky profits to reflect that…
…but somehow what shows in your bank account is anything but chunky.
You know your staff are holding the key to more sales, bigger profits AND those dining experiences that keep your guest coming back for more.
How to make it happen is the question that’s been keeping you awake at night.
Are we onto something?
“I have managed restaurants for over 15 years.
The first time I saw the Sales Stars Training Program, it articulated everything that I struggle to explain to my staff in a very basic, easy-to-understand way. The core information sends a clear and meaningful message that every owner, manager, and staffer can relate to – ‘MONEY’! ”
Matt W.
Owner/General Manager of Myst, Old Orchard Beach, Maine
How you can integrate the Academy into your business journey?
When, where and how it suits you
Time-saving spreadsheets & templates
Take the guesswork out of restaurants and help you get there faster
Guest workshops
That score you front-row seats to industry-leading training with experts in their field
Bite-sized video lessons
Make upskilling on the run super easy. Because we GET that time is precious!
Here’s what makes The Restaurant Academy different from all the other programs out there:
created by industry experts
Everything-you-need to know at your fingertips
Self-paced learning
Startup-friendly price point
Expert-designed Strategies
easy 24/7 access
About Restaurant Rockstars
We are your fast-tracked ticket to priceless industry expertise that’s supported hundreds of aspiring and established restaurant owners rock their restaurant since 2012.
The Restaurant Academy is designed to save you countless hours―if not days―googling THE SOLUTION without actually ever getting anywhere.
Or even worse:
Becoming one of FAR TOO MANY restaurants that have to close shortly after opening their doors!
We’ve walked the walk.
We’ve perfected the processes.
And we’ve picked up accolades (and the profits to match) along the way.
We have the MBA so you don’t have to!
When you complete The Restaurant Academy, you’ll walk away with more…
Know-how
Everything in The Academy is proven to work so you can fast-track straight to expert status and save yourself decades of industry experience.
Confidence
Everything in The Academy is geared towards myth-busting and growing your confidence so you can knock that self-doubt out of the park.
Clarity
Everything in The Academy is intended to cut through the noise so you can make googling for answers a thing of the past.
Drive
Everything in The Academy is designed for aspiring restaurant owners who are ready to make their dream a reality. Passionate restaurateurs like you!
“The system works!
I have managed restaurants for over 15 years. The first time I saw Roger’s programs many years ago, they articulated everything I struggled with in a very basic, easy-to-understand way and send a clear message – MONEY”
Matt W.
Owner/General Manager of Myst, Old Orchard Beach, Maine
How you can get your hands on all of the following?
The Restaurant Academy
The complete start-up roadmap and restaurant ownership system to make YOU the rockstar of your super popular and highly profitable restaurant.
Get instant access to:
Logistics
Everything you need to know and do before you open the doors of your restaurant. Learn about: Licenses, Permits, Business Plans, Equipment, Getting Your Business Funded, Buying vs. Leasing + more.
Finances
You take money to the bank! Learn Critical Cost Controls, How to Maximize Your Profits, How to Manage Your Inventory, How To Cost Out Your Menu + more.
Staff Sales Training
Empower your front-of-house team to double if not triple your sales and deliver amazing dining experiences. Trackable Sales Training, Team Building & Effective Pre-Shift Exercises + more.
Marketing
Build both new and repeat business quickly! Learn how to Build your Brand, Attract Loyal Customers, Start a popular Mug Club, Market on Social Media + more.
Efficiencies
Learn how to: Stay Ahead of the Competition, Plan For Preventative Maintenance of Equipment, Properly Handle Cash, Reduce Waste and Spoilage + more.
Profit Centers
Get ideas for multiple lucrative profit centers that you can add to your business: Catering, Retail Merchandise, Packaged Foods to Go, Entertainment + more.
Expert-designed | Self-paced | Startup-friendly
You can cancel at any time. 30-day money-back guarantee.
30-day
money-back
guarantee
You can cancel your Academy membership at any time. You can also rejoin the Academy at any time. We recognize that while most members will use the Academy weekly if not daily to optimize their business and train their staff, everyone is at a different stage and will use it accordingly.
We want The Academy to be meaningful and highly useful to you. Our goal is that The Academy content becomes the fabric of your organization and the fundamentals on which your business builds & thrives!
If, however, within the first 30 days of your membership, you review the Academy content, don’t get value, or feel we’ve not delivered on our goal, we will promptly cancel your membership and refund the money you’ve paid us. Simply email your feedback and refund request to [email protected] before your 30-day trial period is up. If you submit your refund request after 30 days, we will simply cancel your membership with no refund due.
You can cancel your membership at any time from your dashboard.
Frequently Asked Questions
I’ve got so much to do already to get this restaurant off the ground. How many hours does this training take to complete?
We understand that life must be busy right now. That’s why this training is no-fluff and delivers everything in bite-sized chunks that you can tick off when, where and how it suits you.
Is The Restaurant Academy geared towards a specific type of restaurant?
This training comes with purposely designed sales strategies for both fast-casual and full-service restaurants so you have complete confidence the strategies apply to your situation every single time.
Numbers and I usually don’t get along. Is the the Academy for me?
Absolutely. The Academy is specifically designed to give you the proven strategies, tools and formulas so you don’t have to lose sleep over them. The 14 pre-formulated spreadsheets alone in the Finance module will take the guesswork out of every financial aspect of your restaurant.
How is the Restaurant Academy delivered?
We know other restaurant training can be rather dry. That’s why The Restaurant Academy is the perfect blend of audio, video, written and interactive content.
Does the Restaurant Academy guarantee financial results?
No, because implementing the learnings into your new or established restaurant business comes down to you and your individual circumstances. What it does guarantee is that everything within the Academy is based on the tried-and-tested strategies that Restaurant Rockstars Founder, Roger Beaudoin, has perfected within his highly profitable and award-winning restaurants over 20+ years.
When can I get started?
You’ll get instant access to the Academy as soon as you sign up. Expect access to the Academy via email within minutes of your purchase.
How do I access the Academy?
Everything within the Academy is accessible online via desktop, laptop or your mobile from anywhere via our Restaurant Rockstars learning platform. That means you can gradually tick off the content on the run, at home or while back of house in your restaurant.
I haven’t opened my restaurant yet. Is this training for me?
Yes, most definitely. The Restaurant Academy is designed with aspiring restaurateurs in mind. Starting BEFORE you open the doors to your restaurant gives you the unfair advantage other restaurant owners wish they’d tapped into. You can cost, plan and strategise everything so you’re set up for success right from day 1.
My restaurant staff is busy enough as it is. How many hours does the Sales Stars Server Training take to complete?
We understand restaurant owner life. That’s why this training is no-fluff and delivers everything in bite-sized modules that you can tick off when, where and how it suits you and your team. But to give you a straight answer, it will take a staff member less than 60 minutes to complete all the lessons in this module.
I know nothing about sales. Is the Restaurant Academy for me?
Absolutely. The Restaurant Academy is specifically designed to give you proven strategies, tactics, and exercises so you don’t have to lose sleep over them. Everything in the Academy has helped Restaurant Rockstars Founder, Roger Beaudoin, DOUBLE the sales in his award-winning restaurants.