4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Turn your small business into an EMPIRE. Randy Murphy is the man behind Mama Fu’s, an Asian restaurant that started in Austin. Today, the restaurant has 26 locations. Learn how Randy grew the small restaurant into a massive enterprise using technology and other strategies… and then do the same for your business.
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| 0:00.0 | If you look at the actual numbers, restaurants don't fail any more than any other business. |
| 0:04.0 | The problem is when they do fail, they hit hard because there's a lot of money that goes into it, |
| 0:08.0 | you lose money along the way, and then when you fail, you still have a leash you have to keep paying. |
| 0:11.5 | So you hear more about failures in restaurants |
| 0:13.8 | and other businesses, especially service businesses, you could fail and then just that's it. |
| 0:17.6 | You just turn off this spigot and all the people go home and that's it. |
| 0:24.4 | What is up you sexy bastards? It's your boy sparkling water, aka Rabbi Can't Lose, |
| 0:26.8 | aka No Kagan. |
| 0:28.2 | In today's episode, I talked to Randy Murphy, |
| 0:30.5 | the founder of Mama Foo's Asian House. |
| 0:32.8 | Yes. |
| 0:33.4 | Randy has managed to take a small three-location business |
| 0:36.0 | and turn it into an epic 26 location mega chain. |
| 0:40.1 | He's done this using a bunch of tech |
| 0:42.2 | and a fresh approach on how to run a restaurant. |
| 0:44.0 | Furthermore, he is a white guy in Texas. |
| 0:46.8 | It's really, really impressive. |
| 0:48.0 | Most of what you're going to hear, you're going to be thinking we're talking about scaling |
| 0:51.1 | a tech company, not actually serving someone an Asian dinner. |
| 0:55.2 | So from his delivery and customer support technology, data lead analytics, and even having his |
| 1:00.0 | centralized call center to take orders, Randy has done a lot of really interesting things in this industry. |
| 1:05.0 | So if you've ever wanted to learn about scaling a business, |
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