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A restaurant runs on thin margins and long shifts, and most of the material written for it is either a compliance PDF nobody reads or a course that costs more than the problem. So we publish the opposite: short, concrete, bilingual, with JP, an AI tutor, answering from the material itself. Everything free, with no paid registration and no premium tier. It is how POSADA R&D LLC gives back to the community it grew in.

30 courses

Compliance Food Safety Handbook - New Jersey Edition The pocket food safety guide for New Jersey restaurants, turned into a course: 12 chapters, an AI tutor and eight fillable logs. Free, in English and Spanish. ● 12 topics · ~104 min Start → Finance and analytics Costing and pricing methods What each dish really costs you and what it leaves. Seven topics with an AI tutor, free. ● 7 topics · ~115 min Start → Finance and analytics Pricing and customer perception How a price gets decided once you know the cost. Eight topics with an AI tutor, free. ● 8 topics · ~144 min Start → Platforms and ordering Delivery and takeout platforms What each order really costs you, how to choose a platform, set up your menu and stop leaking margin without noticing. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~80 min Start → Platforms and ordering Your own online ordering The channel where you pay no commission and the customer is yours. Which system to choose, how to set it up, and how to bring your regulars over. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~80 min Start → Payments and POS POS systems The system every plate that leaves and every dollar that comes in goes through. What it actually does, how to choose it, set it up, protect it and get your team using it well. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~82 min Start → Payments and POS Payment processing Who keeps what every time someone taps a card, how to read your statement, what the contract hides and how to fight a chargeback. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~84 min Start → Staff and shifts Employee scheduling The schedule is your most expensive weekly decision and the fastest one to fix. How to build it from data, publish it on time and stop losing your Sunday to text messages. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~82 min Start → Staff and shifts Labor cost Your second largest expense, and the only one you decide every week. What it really includes, how to budget hours against sales, and what every person who leaves costs you. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~85 min Start → Staff and shifts Training and onboarding Hiring is half of it; the other half is that they stay and do the work well. How to receive someone new, teach a task so it sticks, write it down once, and grow your people. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~80 min Start → Marketing and customers Loyalty programs Bringing back someone who already knows you costs a fraction of finding someone new. Which kind of program fits you, whether it actually pays, how to set it up, and the mistakes that make it lose money. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~81 min Start → Marketing and customers Email marketing The one marketing channel you actually own: it reaches people directly, with no algorithm in the way, at almost no cost. How to build a permission list, what to send, write an email that gets opened, and measure it. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~79 min Start → Marketing and customers Social media The shop window where people who don't know you yet discover you. Which platform to be on (and which to skip), what to post, what makes a photo work, and how to tell if any of it brings people in. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~79 min Start → Marketing and customers Customer feedback What your customers are already saying about you, and how to hear it before it shows up in the till. Reviews, short surveys, listening online, asking at the table, and turning a hundred scattered comments into three decisions. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~79 min Start → Marketing and customers Customer data You already have the data: it is in your POS, your bookings and your loyalty program. How to bring it together, group people by what they are worth and how often they come, spot who is drifting away before they go, and decide with it. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~80 min Start → Finance and analytics Your restaurant's numbers Reading a profit and loss statement top to bottom without being an accountant, understanding why you can be profitable and still have no cash, watching the five numbers that matter, and knowing what you must sell to break even. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~80 min Start → Finance and analytics Sales analytics Your POS already records what sold, at what hour and through which channel. How to read it: the shape of your week, which dishes make money and which only make noise, which channel actually pays, and whether that promotion did anything. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~80 min Start → Finance and analytics Budgeting for the year Writing down what next year is going to do, month by month: what you will sell, what it will cost, which months lose money and where that money comes from. And comparing it against what actually happened every month, which is where a budget earns its keep. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~83 min Start → Finance and analytics Controlling your costs Bringing down what each plate costs you without touching what people came to eat: what your recipe really costs, how to buy, how to run inventory, how much money leaves in waste and portions, and what the kitchen burns when nobody is looking. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~82 min Start → Operations and kitchen Automating the kitchen Before you buy anything: where your kitchen actually jams, what you can fix with what you already own, which machine pays for itself and which one ends up gathering dust. And how to get it running without stopping service. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~83 min Start → Operations and kitchen The dining room: atmosphere and setup The room decides how long people stay, how much they order and whether they come back. How to measure the four things that actually matter — light, noise, temperature and tables — with the phone in your pocket, and fix them almost always without building work. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~81 min Start → Platforms and ordering Reservations and the waiting list Filling the room without giving tables away: whether to take bookings at all, which system to choose, how long a table really lasts, what to do about the people who never turn up, and how to say no without losing the customer. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~82 min Start → Platforms and ordering Does your restaurant need an app? The question nobody asks before spending the money, and the honest answer: almost always no. What you can get without building anything, how to decide if you really need one, and how to know when it is time to switch it off. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~83 min Start → Sustainability Consuming less without making service worse What your place actually consumes, in kilowatt-hours, litres and pieces of packaging, and what can come down without the guest noticing. With the warning almost nobody gives: what you can honestly claim you do. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~81 min Start → Sustainability Where what you buy comes from Knowing where your food actually comes from, why "local" is not always better, how to choose a supplier by origin, and what the certifications really mean. With the arithmetic of what switching one product costs, unvarnished. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~84 min Start → Sustainability What is left over, and where it goes A hundred and twenty-five kilos of food a month leave a kitchen like yours. This course is not about what that costs — that is already written — but about what you do with it: give it away, compost it, separate it properly, and weigh it. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~82 min Start → Compliance Compliance checklists A restaurant's paperwork system: which checklists you actually need, who signs each one, where they are filed and how to find them in two minutes when somebody asks. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~83 min Start → Compliance Food safety guidelines The rules you actually have to know: temperatures, times, cold chain, cross-contamination, allergens and hygiene. With the verified numeric tables and eight logs you can fill in on the page itself. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~89 min Start → Compliance When the inspector comes What a health inspection looks at and in what order, how to run the visit on yourself first, what to do with a finding while they are standing there, and what happens afterwards. With the full self-inspection from the printed handbook. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~87 min Start → Finance and analytics Tax, without the surprises What the conversation with your accountant is actually about: what is deductible and what is not, the sales tax you collect and never owned, tips, payroll and seasonal years. Without a single invented figure. Six topics with an AI tutor. ● 6 topics · ~86 min Start →