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In this episode we interview Michael Attias Founder of CaterZen. What I really enjoyed about this interview was hearing about how CaterZen evolved and how it is helping their customers do better and sell more catering.To learn more - Click Here: https://www.caterzen.com/To learn more about OpsAnalitica Click Here: OpsAnalitica.com

In this episode we interview Michael Attias Founder of CaterZen. What I really enjoyed about this interview was hearing about how CaterZen evolved and how it is helping their customers do better and sell more catering. To learn more - Click Here: <a href="https://www.caterzen.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.caterzen.com/</a> To learn more about OpsAnalitica Click Here: <a href="http://OpsAnalitica.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OpsAnalitica.com</a>

81 - Interview With Michael Attias - Founder Of CaterZen

100 Episodes! Pretty exciting to say that this is #100 of the Restaurant Expert Roundup Series! What started in June 2020 as a way to connect with authors and podcasters in the restaurant biz turned into a library of AMAZING content for America's Best Restaurants University. Today's GUEST #100 is Michael Attias, the author of Cater or Die and President/Founder of CaterZen. I want to talk about some TIPS &amp; TRICKS to OUT SMARTING your competition on Catering. You can connect with Michael on LinkedIn &amp; Email Below: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/catering1 Email: Michael@CaterZen.com --- *America's Best Restaurant University is not an actual university. We provide training and insight for restaurants throughout America but we do not offer degree programs.

100 Episodes! Pretty exciting to say that this is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/100" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#100</a> of the Restaurant Expert Roundup Series! What started in June 2020 as a way to connect with authors and podcasters in the restaurant biz turned into a library of AMAZING content for America's Best Restaurants University. Today's GUEST <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/100" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#100</a> is Michael Attias, the author of Cater or Die and President/Founder of CaterZen. I want to talk about some TIPS &amp; TRICKS to OUT SMARTING your competition on Catering. You can connect with Michael on LinkedIn &amp; Email Below: LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/catering1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/in/catering1</a> Email: <a href="mailto:Michael@CaterZen.com">Michael@CaterZen.com</a> --- *America's Best Restaurant University is not an actual university. We provide training and insight for restaurants throughout America but we do not offer degree programs.

Ep. 100 – Restaurant Deep Dive with Catering Expert, Michael Attias

Michael and I have a great discussion about the nuances and details of selling catering and developing strong catering programs for restaurants.Transcript00:00.00vigorbrandingGot you? Okay hey everyone welcome to the show today I am joined by Michael Atis he is the founder president and Ceo of cater and which we'll get into what caters and does in a minute but for now Michael say hello give a little bit of backstory.00:00.16Michael attiasTs atis.00:15.59Michael attiasHey, how's it going. Thanks for having me on your podcast. Super excited like probably a lot of the listeners started off 16 years old washing dishes at a restaurant in Memphis did such a bad job. They made me a bus boy thirty days later worked my way in every position ended up in college working for this barbecue startup called Cory's barbecue friend of my friend of the family neighborhood friend father started it or my way up there. Um left there after college they were I had a sales job hated it. I fired my boss said you need another month that said no just fired me now went back to corrkies and told them I wanted to be 1 of their first franchisees I worked for half the day for free to learn the operations I'd never managed run open a restaurant waited tables to pay my bills just got married just bought a house. And probably 3 four months in I talked to guy and his wife to write a million dollar check and back me on a first restaurant. So as a result of that I realized um like I don't like to work I'm lazy people. Color efficient didn't want to work nights or weekend. So I focused on. Being a business person that has a restaurant then a restaurant person and learned how to build use direct mail direct marketing built catering sales so out of 104 c restaurant. We were doing 3000000 a year a million of it was in catering then I started. Running around speaking teaching info products coaching newsletter business on you know how to double your profits with catering in your restaurant and get paid to promote your brand and then when I sold my restaurant in o five I built caters in it was called. Restaurant catering systems um to be catering software for restaurants and now we do restaurants caters and about to launch private party room booking software so you know if you've got a restaurant you do catering and you have private party rooms our our system will run everything a to z. So that's sort of like the out the long elevator speech exactly yeah, it's about how long it takes to get there.02:29.45vigorbrandingI love it. Yeah, the the elevator in the empire state building speech so I love it. So let's dive in indicatoring. Um, you know we you know at the Helm of vior. We've talked with a lot of clients about how to boost catering sales and so on and so forth. But.02:41.40Michael attiasI.02:48.55vigorbrandingI Think what we saw is a little bit prior to the pandemic if you were in some of the major cities, especially let's say around the Bay area. Um catering was taking a hit like people weren't going into the office those lunches those meetings weren't happening and then of course the pandemic. Just.03:05.32Michael attiasUm.03:07.35vigorbrandingSquash The whole damn thing. So whatever you seen as a remedy as we try to get back to full capacity in offices. Is there a remedy and and how have you helped clients kind of cope with the lack of sales.03:20.62Michael attiasWell, you know I forgot where I read like technology doubles every five years right? Like if you think about you know my first cell phonee was a flipflown and you'd be lucky to get like a 1 megapixel picture that was grainy on your phone now I have an iphone that has more computing power. Than anything I had available in college and you know I've got 10000 pictures and videos and literally you want to know how to build a nuclear bomb. You can find it on your phone so exactly but you get the point and so.03:47.52vigorbr

Michael and I have a great discussion about the nuances and details of selling catering and developing strong catering programs for restaurants. <h4>Transcript</h4>00:00.00 vigorbranding Got you? Okay hey everyone welcome to the show today I am joined by Michael Atis he is the founder president and Ceo of cater and which we'll get into what caters and does in a minute but for now Michael say hello give a little bit of backstory. 00:00.16 Michael attias Ts atis. 00:15.59 Michael attias Hey, how's it going. Thanks for having me on your podcast. Super excited like probably a lot of the listeners started off 16 years old washing dishes at a restaurant in Memphis did such a bad job. They made me a bus boy thirty days later worked my way in every position ended up in college working for this barbecue startup called Cory's barbecue friend of my friend of the family neighborhood friend father started it or my way up there. Um left there after college they were I had a sales job hated it. I fired my boss said you need another month that said no just fired me now went back to corrkies and told them I wanted to be 1 of their first franchisees I worked for half the day for free to learn the operations I'd never managed run open a restaurant waited tables to pay my bills just got married just bought a house. And probably 3 four months in I talked to guy and his wife to write a million dollar check and back me on a first restaurant. So as a result of that I realized um like I don't like to work I'm lazy people. Color efficient didn't want to work nights or weekend. So I focused on. Being a business person that has a restaurant then a restaurant person and learned how to build use direct mail direct marketing built catering sales so out of 104 c restaurant. We were doing 3000000 a year a million of it was in catering then I started. Running around speaking teaching info products coaching newsletter business on you know how to double your profits with catering in your restaurant and get paid to promote your brand and then when I sold my restaurant in o five I built caters in it was called. Restaurant catering systems um to be catering software for restaurants and now we do restaurants caters and about to launch private party room booking software so you know if you've got a restaurant you do catering and you have private party rooms our our system will run everything a to z. So that's sort of like the out the long elevator speech exactly yeah, it's about how long it takes to get there. 02:29.45 vigorbranding I love it. Yeah, the the elevator in the empire state building speech so I love it. So let's dive in indicatoring. Um, you know we you know at the Helm of vior. We've talked with a lot of clients about how to boost catering sales and so on and so forth. But. 02:41.40 Michael attias I. 02:48.55 vigorbranding I Think what we saw is a little bit prior to the pandemic if you were in some of the major cities, especially let's say around the Bay area. Um catering was taking a hit like people weren't going into the office those lunches those meetings weren't happening and then of course the pandemic. Just. 03:05.32 Michael attias Um. 03:07.35 vigorbranding Squash The whole damn thing. So whatever you seen as a remedy as we try to get back to full capacity in offices. Is there a remedy and and how have you helped clients kind of cope with the lack of sales. 03:20.62 Michael attias Well, you know I forgot where I read like technology doubles every five years right? Like if you think about you know my first cell phonee was a flipflown and you'd be lucky to get like a 1 megapixel picture that was grainy on your phone now I have an iphone that has more computing power. Than anything I had available in college and you know I've got 10000 pictures and videos and literally you want to know how to build a nuclear bomb. You can find it on your phone so exactly but you get the point and so. 03:47.52 vigorbr

EP 35 / Michael Attias / Founder of CaterZen & Mastermind of Catering Sales

One of the biggest questions I get from restaurants looking to grow revenue revolves around HOW to increase their catering revenue...WELLLLL Let's find out! Michael is the author of "Cater or Die" and the President/Founder of CaterZen You can find out more about Michael at www.caterzen.com or on his LinkedIn profile below. www.linkedin.com/in/catering1 You can also find some great FREE Ebooks on the link below. www.caterzen.com/free-catering-ebooks

One of the biggest questions I get from restaurants looking to grow revenue revolves around HOW to increase their catering revenue...WELLLLL Let's find out! Michael is the author of "Cater or Die" and the President/Founder of CaterZen You can find out more about Michael at <a href="http://www.caterzen.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.caterzen.com</a> or on his LinkedIn profile below. <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/catering1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/in/catering1</a> You can also find some great FREE Ebooks on the link below. <a href="http://www.caterzen.com/free-catering-ebooks" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.caterzen.com/free-catering-ebooks</a>