Restaurant Unstoppable with Eric Cacciatore 820: Stephani Robson - Business Planning workshop part 1
With excitement, allow me to introduce to you today's guest: Emeritus Faculty of The Hotel School of Cornell University, Stephani Robson. Until her recent retirement, Dr. Stephani Robson was a member of the faculty at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration for almost 30 years, where she taught literally thousands of students and executives about development and planning for hotels and restaurants. Prior to joining academia, she designed commercial kitchens for just about every kind of operation: restaurants, hotels, airports, hospitals, universities, and more.
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In today's episode with Stephani Robson we will discuss:
- This is part one of of three-part workshop all about business planning.
- Today we are discussing:
- who is your audience? and...
- how do you write your business plan for that audience?
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Contact info:
Email: skr4@cornell.edu
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