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10/16/2026

Three things this week, and they're all the same thing.

Ask what he can't get. Tell him what you'll need. Call him once when nothing's wrong.

Every one of those is you making yourself visible to somebody who's about to make decisions about you without you in the room.

Because that's what allocation is. A guy with a list, deciding. And he can only protect what he can see.

Right now you're a number on an invoice. One call. This week. Before the volume shows up.

I want to say something about your vendor rep that might land wrong at first.He's keeping score. Not maliciously. Everyb...
10/15/2026

I want to say something about your vendor rep that might land wrong at first.

He's keeping score. Not maliciously. Everybody does it.

You call when something's short. You call when the credit's wrong. You call when you need a favor by Thursday. Add up a year of those calls and almost every one is a problem landing on his desk.

Now think about which operator he takes care of first when December gets tight. I'd bet it's the one who called in June about nothing in particular.

That isn't about being nice. Nice is not a procurement strategy. It's about being easy to help, because when he has one case left and three people want it, it goes to the account that doesn't cost him his afternoon.

The relationship gets built in the quiet months and spent in the loud ones. You cannot make a deposit on December 20th.

Who are you calling this week when you don't need anything?

10/14/2026

Here's the part most operators skip.

You call your vendor and ask what he can get in December. Fair question. But you never tell him what you're going to need.

Your rep is allocating product right now. Not in December. Now. He's deciding whose order gets filled first when it gets tight, and he's deciding based on who he can plan around.

The operator who sends his December numbers in October is a planning problem your rep can solve. The guy who calls on the eighteenth is an emergency he has to triage.

Same vendor. Same product. Completely different outcome.

Tell them before you ask them.

Last year's December close was the lowest food cost the group had hit in eighteen months.Twenty-nine four. The owner fel...
10/13/2026

Last year's December close was the lowest food cost the group had hit in eighteen months.

Twenty-nine four. The owner felt good about the system, authorized Q1 staffing, considered a lease on a fourth unit. By mid-February he was reading a 32.1% close and asking what had changed. Nothing had. The catering had just stopped.

The December number on the P&L is a composite. In a shop with meaningful holiday catering, it's distorted by better unit economics on volume, planned event menus with built-in margins, and leftover product flowing into specials at full menu price. All three are good management while they're happening. All three vanish on January 2. Operators who read the healthy composite as the system working make Q1 decisions on a mixed signal and spend February figuring it out.

This week's Behind the Line is the two-column move that keeps the real a la carte number readable through the holidays. Free to read on LinkedIn. Link's in the comments.

Corn, beans, squash, tomatoes, potatoes, chiles. So much of what we cook every day began with Indigenous farmers. Honori...
10/12/2026

Corn, beans, squash, tomatoes, potatoes, chiles. So much of what we cook every day began with Indigenous farmers. Honoring that legacy today.

Your vendor's December is booked too.This is the part operators forget. You're planning for your busiest six weeks, and ...
10/12/2026

Your vendor's December is booked too.

This is the part operators forget. You're planning for your busiest six weeks, and so is everyone who sells to you. Same labor market, same trucks, same tight supply, same holiday schedule. Your rep isn't waiting around in December to solve your problem. He's got forty other accounts doing exactly what you're doing.

The answer you get on December 18th is not the answer you'd have gotten on October 15th. Same vendor, same relationship, completely different leverage.

So, four questions this week. What will you be short on, and when. What's allocated. What your delivery schedule really looks like the weeks of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's. And what the sub is if your first choice isn't there, decided now by you, instead of at six in the morning by whoever answers the phone.

One call per vendor. That's it.

The operators who sail through December aren't lucky with their suppliers. They just called first.

When did you last ask a vendor what they can't get?

10/09/2026

Here's what I'd want you to take out of this week.

Every problem you don't fix in October still gets solved in December. It just gets solved at seven o'clock on a Saturday, by whoever's on shift, with no time and no options.

The decision gets made either way. The only question is whether you make it, or the night makes it for you.

So this weekend, give it ten minutes. What broke on your last busy night. What it costs to fix now. Who owns it by next Friday.

That's the whole exercise. Seven weeks.

Every January I hear the same four words from operators. We got through it.I used to say it myself. It sounds like a win...
10/08/2026

Every January I hear the same four words from operators. We got through it.

I used to say it myself. It sounds like a win. It isn't one.

Getting through December and making money in December are two different outcomes, and plenty of operators do the first while believing they did the second.

December doesn't just add covers. It adds emergencies. You run out mid service, so somebody buys it retail. The regular vendor can't get it, so you take whatever the backup has. Two people order the same thing because nobody had a minute to check. The schedule stops working in week two and the rest of the month is overtime.

None of it feels like a decision while it's happening. It feels like handling it. And you did handle it. You handled it at full price.

Best revenue month, one of the worst margin months, same four weeks.

It's October 8th. You've got about seven weeks. What are you fixing first?

10/07/2026

You don't need to guess where your cracks are. You already ran the test.

Think about your busiest night in the last two months. The one where it got loud. What broke? Not what almost broke. What actually broke.

Somebody ran out of something. A station went down. An order got placed wrong. Whatever it was, write it down, because that wasn't bad luck. That was a rehearsal.

December is that night, four times a week, for six weeks straight. Everything that bent in October snaps in December.

Take the top two off that list and fix them now, while fixing is still cheap.

That's the whole job this month.

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