Cha Ching baby💸! This week on MP TV we have a special guest, Matt’s own👨‍👦 father,💲 Duane Plapp!💲 Watch your ankles⛹️, because the🏀 Michael Jordan of sales is here to fill you in on how to be MVP🏆. Duane has been in sales for over 50 years and specializes in building relationships🤝, and this week Duane fills us in on:

🏆What to say when you approach a customer
🏆Selling is about creating relationships
🏆Employees follow your lead
🏆The labor shortage isn’t to blame
🏆Your job is sales and marketing
🏆Doing sales correctly

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If no one else is doing it, an opportunity is slapping you in the face! 👊

Set yourself apart and do what no one else is doing. ⤵️

Give it some time then BOOM. You suddenly have results that NO ONE else has!

Restaurant Marketing is not rocket science, folks.

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Week 5 of America’s Best Restaurants LIVE is here! You won’t want to miss this jam packed episode!

ABR LIVE is an outlet for restaurant owners and industry experts to share their story & knowledge with avid restaurant professionals & consumers.

In the series premiere, expect:
– The ABR Mission with ABR CEO & Founder, Doug Smith
– Featured Episode – Pizza Palace – Seymour, Indiana
– Meet The Owner – Chad from 4th & State
– ABR Episodes Premiering THIS WEEK
– LIVE from Van #1 With Luis & Austin

Be sure to tune in and enjoy the show!

America’s Best Restaurants aims to help independent restaurant owners take control of their narrative & show consumers where they should be eating on a weekly basis.

Join in on the fun: www.AmericasBestRestaurants.com

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Why do restaurants FAIL so bad when it comes to this, gathering customer data.

Watch this video, 95% of restaurants we visit ask the customer what they want to eat, they take their money BUT THEY FAIL to have a simple conversation to get them excited and get their Information.

Customer data is the KEY to marketing your restaurant long term, yet restaurant owners fail to put in place simple processes to create conversations that generate the data needed to reach back out to your customers on a consistent basis.

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Week 4 of America’s Best Restaurants LIVE is here! You won’t want to miss this jam packed episode!

ABR LIVE is an outlet for restaurant owners and industry experts to share their story & knowledge with avid restaurant professionals & consumers.

In the series premiere, expect:
– The ABR Mission with ABR CEO & Founder, Doug Smith
– Featured Episode – Cedar – Covington, Kentucky
– What restaurant owners have to say about ABR
– ABR Episodes Premiering THIS WEEK
– LIVE from Van #1 With Luis & Austin

Be sure to tune in and enjoy the show!

America’s Best Restaurants aims to help independent restaurant owners take control of their narrative & show consumers where they should be eating on a weekly basis.

Join in on the fun: www.AmericasBestRestaurants.com

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Ring📞 Ring📞, 859 is calling, but not the area code- the Taproom🍻! Jeff Kaplin, owner of 859 Taproom and Grill stopped by the studio🎧, and with his 30+ years of restaurant experience, he knows a thing or two about the industry🧠. Before owning 859 Taproom and Grill, Jeff started in Florida🍊 bussing tables at his family’s diner, then moved to the Big Apple🍎-New York City- to pursue his passion for cooking and go to culinary school👨‍🍳, and work as a chef for many years. Now he is here in good ol’ NKY🐎 and he joins Matt today to talk about:

📞Using video in social media marketing
📞Learning the right way leads to success
📞Keeping your stock room… stocked!
📞Love what you do, and do what you love
📞The hardships of taking over a restaurant
📞Only 3 out of 100 restaurants we visit are collecting data

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Week 3 of America’s Best Restaurants LIVE with special host, Doug! Join Doug as he shares the ABR Mission and gives you an inside look to America’s Best Restaurants!

ABR LIVE is an outlet for restaurant owners and industry experts to share their story & knowledge with avid restaurant professionals & consumers.

In the series premiere, expect:
– The ABR Mission with ABR CEO & Founder, Doug Smith
– Featured Episode – Diversion Social Eatery
– Success Is Served With Connie & Tom from Basilleo’s Pizza
– ABR Episodes Premiering THIS WEEK
– Certified Legit with Luis Rivera & Marcos Valdes

Be sure to tune in and enjoy the show!

America’s Best Restaurants aims to help independent restaurant owners take control of their narrative & show consumers where they should be eating on a weekly basis.

Join in on the fun: www.AmericasBestRestaurants.com

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Welcome To Deep Works Studios, once again🤗! We have a certified legit😎 guest lined up this week on MPTV, and if you are a follower of America’s Best Restaurants🍽 (which you should be🤩!), you will recognize him… Luis Rivera, one of ABR’s very own hosts🎥! Matt and Luis have worked together at America’s Best Restaurants for the past few years, and with that, comes A LOT of restaurants🧑‍🍳, and by extension, A LOT of FOOD sampled😮‍💨🍔🌭🌮🥗🍕. These guys are experts! Luis and Matt go way back, and this week, they go over:
🕶You have to outspend to outsmart the competition
🕶How far can a little passion go?
🕶How to get your customers hooked
🕶You can’t hope & pray your customers will become regulars
🕶Impact is everything
🕶You can sell items better when you can sell real passion

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