Kirsten Maitland

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864 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3 Jun

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You could say, this is what my margin needs to be.

Send me an email if that margin changes.

Because ingredient costs, especially now, are constant.

constantly fluctuating and they really are a big factor when you're looking at your margins.

So you have to watch that closely, waste what's selling, what's not.

And if something's not performing, make the hard decision to remove it from your menu or from your store.

Don't keep it because you're attached or it was your grandma's recipe or whatever.

If it's not working, cut it.

Because that will eat away at your margins too.

So monitoring those things very, very closely.

You know, of course, making sure you have your schedules tight for when you're open.

You know, opening hours need to match with customer demands.

If there are hours where you're not busy, cut those too.

So you have to watch every little expense very closely and act on things that aren't working well immediately.

Yes.

We went on Shark Tank in 2023 towards the end, right before the holidays.

We opened our restaurant in 2019.

So it was four years after our opening.

And we applied during COVID because like everyone, we were trying everything.

I was applying to every competition there was, every grant, PPP, you name it.

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