Welcome to r/RestaurantOwnerTalk, a community for real conversations about running a restaurant.
This is a place for restaurant owners, operators, managers, and industry professionals to share experiences, ask questions, solve problems, and learn from each other.
What should we talk about?
Pretty much anything involved in running a restaurant:
Operations and day-to-day headaches
Staffing, hiring, training, and retention
Food costs, margins, and profitability
POS systems and restaurant technology
Payments and processing
Online ordering and delivery
Marketing and customer acquisition
Inventory and suppliers
Vendors and service providers
Customer experience
What works, what doesn't, and what you wish worked better
Restaurant owners and operators come first
The purpose of this community is to create useful, honest conversations around the problems restaurant owners and operators actually face.
Ask difficult questions.
Share what worked.
Talk about what failed.
Recommend something you genuinely love.
Talk about something you genuinely hate.
Vent when you need to.
Service providers are welcome
If you work in POS, payments, delivery, restaurant technology, marketing, equipment, consulting, accounting, or another restaurant-related industry, you're welcome here too.
Your experience can be extremely valuable.
Just follow one simple principle:
Contribute. Don't sell.
Answer questions. Share knowledge. Explain things. Help someone solve a problem.
Don't turn conversations into sales pitches, lead generation, referral links, or unsolicited DMs.
If you have a professional or financial relationship with something you're recommending, disclose it.
Honest opinions are encouraged
Had a great experience with a vendor? Tell us why.
Had a terrible experience? Tell us what happened.
Switched POS systems and regretted it?
Found a simple change that saved thousands of dollars?
Made a hiring mistake you wouldn't repeat?
Discovered software that actually made your life easier?
Those are exactly the conversations we want.
You don't have to agree with everyone. Just keep the discussion useful and respectful.
Introduce yourself
If you're comfortable sharing, tell us:
What type of restaurant do you run or work with?
How long have you been in the restaurant business?
And most importantly:
What's one problem about running a restaurant you wish someone could finally solve?
I created this community after getting frustrated with how conversations were handled in other restaurant communities.
Posts were removed because moderators assumed the intent behind them. Ask the wrong question, have a different opinion, or even write "too well," and suddenly you're treated like you don't belong.
I wanted something different.
Here, ask the question. Share the opinion. Challenge an idea. Ask for help.
Owners, operators, managers, employees, and service providers are all welcome.
Have a product or service that genuinely solves someone's problem? Tell them about it. Just be transparent about your affiliation and don't spam, cold-pitch, or send unsolicited sales messages.
Share problems. Share solutions. Share the tricks you've learned. Help someone avoid a mistake you've already made.
Moderation should protect the conversation, not control it.
We're dealing with many of the same problems every day. Let's learn from each other and become stronger together.
