key things to know that help scale your business

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#101 - In this episode, Travis speaks with successful chef and entrepreneur Jeffrey Zurofsky. Jeffrey’s career didn’t start off as an entrepreneur but as a chef. After building up his reputation, he eventually decided to become his own boss by becoming a partner of a budding restaurant business. Through hard work and dedication, he and his partners built up this restaurant in NYC into a thriving business that branched out and transformed into a million dollar company. Jeffrey and Travis share their formula to success that people can apply to their own business. Jeffrey gives his guide questions before making a decision which can really help entrepreneurs make wise and practical judgement. He also gives his top 5 things that can help entrepreneurs scale their business and achieve the success that he has achieved. These and so much are what’s in store in this episode of the Entrepreneur’s Radio Show.

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  • 1. THE ENTREPRENEURS RADIO SHOW Conversation with Self-made Millionaires and High-level Entrepreneurs that Grow Your Business Key things to know that help Scale your Business by Travis Lane Jenkins and Jeffrey Zurofsky

2. Fell in Love with Cooking 3. End up in Culinary school 4. Want to build the business on the entrepreneurial side 5. Joined with partners in the business 6. Considering different kinds of strategies 7. We make a lot of mistakes along the way 8. I reach out to people with their opinions 9. From athlete to being a chef 10. Process-driven thing closed to perfecting a business 11. A big difference with a chef and a line cook 12. The chef do the thinking 13. The personality in the kitchen comes from the chef 14. Spend a lot of my time in all aspects of the business 15. What decisions to be made in the next 10 years 16. What are the key elements to scale a business? 17. The most important one is people 18. People who are dedicated to their work 19. The next one is culture 20. How do you make decisions together as a group 21. 4 Questions to ask before moving on a decision 22. Start with profitability questions not the scalable questions 23. The culture is important before thinking on how to run a business 24. Get a board of advisers 25. Have an operating partner 26. Theres no exact formula for everybody 27. How do you get good people? 28. Getting clear with your mission 29. Having people focus on the mission 30. People who understands, This is how we do things. 31. Culture is the personality of the business 32. In evaluating I do a lot of reflecting 33. Spend a lot of time in observing things 34. Decide how to run a business 35. People are much engage in helping people 36. What kind of stuffs do I not know which could be catastrophic to my business? 37. A lot of entrepreneurs dont like to hear what they should be doing 38. From farm to table 39. We want to bring foods that chefs are making to a larger audiences. 40. The principle of how we source food and how we make food.. 41. We support 250 farmers 42. For us, it is about being chefs first. 43. Its about using whats most available 44. Its about the middle men and going back to our roots 45. Creating extreme high value 46. Consumers noticed when the sandwiches are getting smaller 47. Its a word of mouth business 48. Technology or social media has tremendous power 49. THE ENTREPRENEURS RADIO SHOW Conversations with Self-made Millionaires & High-level Entrepreneurs that Grow Your Business a production of Rock Star Entrepreneur Network www.rockstarentrepreneurnetwork.com