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Rick Dudasik

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I can answer questions relating to most areas of the restaurant industry including: starting a restaurant, design, food costing and pricing, site selection, staffing, training, equipment, profit and loss questions, sales training, recipies and many other areas of the industry. I have been in the industry for thirty years and have experience in fast food management, multi unit management, casual dinning management,and ownership. Have helped open over fifteen units throughout the United States.

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  • Knowledgeability 9.78
  • Clarity of Response 9.73
  • Politeness 9.96
  • Response Time(hr) 21.3
  • Response Time(hr, last 90 days) 63.2
  • Number of Questions Today 0
  • Max Questions to be Asked in a Day 15
  • Total Questions (since joining AllExperts) 1324
  • Volunteer Since 2000-10-22
  • Prestige Points 7462

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UserDateKCPComments
Eugene02/07/12101010Thanks Rick - I will follow up .....
Jay Crockett11/29/11101010Thanks, Rick!
Yazan11/14/118 5 10 
Kathy10/17/11101010Rick, Thanks so much your your insight .....
Mary09/02/119 7 10 

Recent Answers from Rick Dudasik

2012-02-01 potential partner:

Dear Jason,    My heart goes out to you!!!    Your between a rock and a hard place !!!    The son of the landlord would guarantee no eviction for late rent, but the no experience will hurt.    Not knowing

2012-01-14 Investment opportunity:

Dear David,    I tend to advise investors in this industry to be very familiar with it and all of it's details.    You do not mention if this is the case.  The industry has very distinct issues that can

2011-12-06 Multi-unit corporate staff:

Dear Eric,    From my experience, a 5 unit chain is pretty much a one man band in the "office"    Unless those units a generating millions a year each it would be one "Do it all" type person and maybe

2011-12-06 Restaurant Operational Audit & Quantitative Reconciliation:

Dear Ashen,      Good luck my friend !!!      What you need is a "POS" system that can do all of that work for you.      It is extremely difficult to set up but once it is set up, you will know every day

2011-11-28 Business plan:

Dear Jay,    Congrats on your new adventure!!!    The only way I can help you is to advise you to do your own research of the area you plan to invest in.  Are the other restaurants doing well at that location?

 

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