👋 Start Here: Welcome to Restaurant Owner Community (ROC) If you're reading this, you already made the right move. While other restaurant owners are drowning in 14-hour days, shrinking margins, and schedules that never seem to work — you're here, looking for a smarter way. Good. Because that's exactly what this community is built for. What This Place Is: This is the ROC A community where independent restaurant owners assist each other, we learn to use AI-powered tools and proven systems to plug profit leaks, fill empty tables, and finally run their business instead of being buried by it. No fluff. No motivational quotes. No "just work harder" nonsense. Just tools, tactics, and a tribe of operators who are done accepting the status quo. What This Place Is NOT ❌ Not another Facebook group full of people venting about DoorDash fees ❌ Not a course you buy and never finish ❌ Not a place where consultants who've never worked a Friday night dinner rush tell you how to run your restaurant Everyone here is either in the trenches with you or has been recently. Your First 3 Steps (Do This Right Now) Don't get overwhelmed. Don't try to do everything at once. Just do these 3 things in the next 10 minutes: STEP 1: Introduce yourself in the comments below: Your restaurant name - City and state - Type of restaurant (Italian, Mexican, bar, fast casual, etc.) - Your top 3 headache right now (labor costs, slow nights, marketing, staffing — whatever's keeping you up at night) Step 2: When You introduce yourself you will get likes and comments, and you will reach level 2. In level 2 we will give you a free gift. Step 3: Get a feel for the community, read posts, ask questions and do not be afraid to ask for help. This is important for two reasons: First, the community will jump in with real advice fast. Second, it helps me point you to the exact tools and resources that are most relevant to your specific situation. Owners who introduce themselves in the first 48 hours get results 3X faster than those who lurk.

Use Case: Quickly Edit Lighting in Any Image Link: ​Higgsfield Relight (Free to Try, Not Sponsored!)​ Why you should care: Higgsfield Relight is a new AI tool that lets you edit the lighting in any image with professional, studio-level control. Other AI tools like Google's Nano Banana or ChatGPT Image are capable of editing images to change the lighting, but there's a catch: you can only control their outputs via natural language. After one of these chatbots misunderstands you five times in a row, you may find yourself wishing you had more control and a better way to communicate exactly what you want to the AI. That's exactly what Higgsfield Relight does best! You use an interactive, 3D globe to show the AI exactly where you want the lighting to come from and tell it exactly what intensity and color you want the light to be. Here's how to try Higgsfield Relight for free right now: 1. Use the link above to go to the Higgsfield Relight web app. 2. Sign in or create a Higgsfield account. (Every Higgsfield account gets 10 free credits daily to test out AI tools!) 3. Hit the "Upload Media" button. 4. Upload an image. 5. Use the globe to adjust the lighting direction. 6. Use the "Light Settings" section beneath the globe to adjust the intensity, brightness, and color of the light. 7. Hit "Generate" to see your new image! If you've been trying to figure out the best way to edit images with AI, go check out Higgsfield Relight today!

Prompt Formula: Give me a crash course on how [HOME APPLIANCE/FEATURE] works. I don’t need to be an expert, but as a homeowner, I’d like to know generally how it works so I can better diagnose when things go wrong to figure out how severe the issue is, how time sensitive it is, and whether I can fix it myself or should likely call an expert. Quick Description: ChatGPT can't fix your bathroom sink for you, but it can help you figure out whether a project is a quick and easy fix you can do on your own or if it's a major issue that will require calling an expert. Use this prompt the next time something in your home breaks to save yourself some time and headache! How to Use: 1. Copy the above prompt formula. 2. Replace [HOME APPLIANCE/FEATURE] with whatever you're having a problem with. For example: "air conditioning" or "wifi" or "dishwashers". 3. Send the prompt. Once you've read through the crash course ChatGPT creates, you'll have the knowledge needed to diagnose the issue on your own and maybe even fix it yourself!

If you own a restaurant, your WhatsApp probably looks like a war zone. - "Can anyone cover my shift Saturday?" - "The walk-in is leaking again." - "Where is the new hiring playbook?" - "Happy Birthday, Sarah! 🎉" (followed by 45 notifications) WhatsApp is where information goes to die. Important SOPs get buried under memes and shift swaps. When a new hire starts, they have zero history of what’s been done. It’s noisy, it’s messy, and it’s stressing you out. The Better Way: Skool.com We moved our "Internal Brain" to Skool, and the difference is night and day. Here is why: - Organized Chaos: Our playbooks aren't in a "chat history"—they are in the Classroom. New staff can train themselves without me repeating the same instructions 100 times. - Searchable Knowledge: Need the closing checklist? Type it in the search bar. No more scrolling through 400 messages. - Focused Communication: We use Categories. Shift swaps stay in one place. Maintenance issues stay in another. Your "General" feed stays clean. - The Culture Boost: Staff actually get "points" for helping each other and completing training. It turns work into a game they want to win. The Mogul Move: Stop managing your business in a chat app meant for families. Put your systems in a place that’s built for growth.