🎙️ How Monte Silva Revolutionized Restaurant Management Through 10 Tables Hospitality and People-First Leadership

In this inspiring episode, Monte Silva, CEO of 10 Tables Hospitality and Monte Silva Coaching, shares his remarkable journey from dishwasher to Wolfgang Puck protégé to restaurant industry innovator. Through powerful stories of career burnout and recovery, celebrity dining experiences, and the creation of a revolutionary restaurant management model, Monte reveals how intimate dining concepts and people-first philosophies are transforming the hospitality industry while addressing the critical challenges of scaling restaurant operations.

✨ Key Insights You'll Learn:

• Restaurant management revolution: Hotel-style management contracts filling infrastructure gaps for scaling restaurant groups

• People-first restaurant philosophy: Treating employees as assets rather than labor costs transforms profitability and culture

• Intimate dining excellence: 50-seat restaurants enabling personal guest connections and 119 consecutive five-star reviews

• Celebrity hospitality lessons: Wolfgang Puck's floor management techniques creating emotional dining experiences through sensory engagement

• Burnout recovery strategies: 90-hour work weeks leading to strategic delegation and sustainable business practices

• Table touch methodology: GLAD formula (Go, Listen, Apologize, Do) turning problems into VIP relationship opportunities

• Coaching evolution: One-on-one services scaling to group masterminds serving 20 restaurant owners simultaneously

• Tech balance philosophy: Technology supporting rather than replacing human connection in dining experiences

• Crisis adaptation skills: COVID displacement driving innovation in coaching and hospitality management models

• Scaling infrastructure challenges: Corporate support needs for restaurant groups growing beyond owner-operator capacity

🌟 Monte's Key Mentors:

• Wolfgang Puck: Taught sensory dining experience creation and celebrity floor management techniques

• Robert Irvine (Restaurant Impossible): Friendship leading to book foreword and industry credibility

• Troy Hooper (Pepper Lunch CEO): Demonstrates "wildly available" leadership philosophy and accessibility

• John Maxwell: "Failing Forward" book providing framework for learning from setbacks

• Mark Budenstein (Chef Partner): Culinary expertise enabling 10 Tables Hospitality concept development

👉 Don't miss this powerful conversation about restaurant industry innovation, sustainable leadership practices, and how intimate hospitality experiences are reshaping the future of dining.

🔗 Connect with Monte Silva:

Phone: 615-934-0261 (Nashville area code) 

Email: monte@10tableshospitality.com 

LinkedIn: Monte Silva Coaching 

Website: MonteSimaCoaching.com (under renovation) 

Book: "Shift Happens: Seven Proven Strategies to Help Your Restaurant Crush in the New Economy"

📄 Transcript Available: Monte Silva Champions People-First Restaurant Philosophy Through Coaching and Management

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