Health & Fitness
Business Owners: Stick with What You Do Best
Business owners can reach higher levels of success by studying what other companies do to succeed. That’s one reason I recently did some research about the family-owned, highly successful restaurant chain, Five Guys. Why use Five Guys as a model?
Family Business magazine calls them one of the restaurant industry’s largest family-owned businesses. Five Guys has 1,000 restaurants and 2012 sales of $1 billion plus. That’s a pretty high level of success.
Make Only Quality Products
An article in Inc. magazine says that Five Guys attributes much of its success to producing a high quality product and only doing what the restaurant does best. The restaurant’s founder, Jerry Murrell says the hamburgers are popular because of the quality control the restaurant chain practices: toasting buns on the grill for a caramelized taste; using 80 percent lean beef; never using frozen meat; and keeping plants squeaky clean. When I read things like this I think about how the lesson applies to other business.
How do you ensure your product is of high quality? Are you doing everything you can to maintain quality? Do you know the elements that make a product high quality in your industry? Are you measuring your company against quality standards and making improvements when needed?
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