You have to realize I didn’t know this until after I sold the store and opened another business and was struggling. ![]() Keep working on the Check-Off Sheets and perfection will be met.Įveryone Benefits, your customers in the end are the true beneficiaries of a business well organized. I alone cannot do everything that the business requires on a daily business to be successful, that’s the reason all business have employees, It’s our job as managers to these employees and having them a Check Off Sheet to go by, we all can get things done!įrom time to time, these check off sheets need to be critique, new things added and somethings maybe taken off. It’s a much nicer work environment when you walk into a work environment with everything is stocked, organized and ready to go. They are a great training tool as well to get them in the habit. It’s all about habit, the big things usually take care of themselves, but it’s the little things that get forgotten, plus as new employees come on board, it shows them what it takes each and every day to run a smooth operation. I’ve been asked many times by my restaurant managers, why do I have to keep doing these check off sheets, sometimes they quit doing anyway because in their eyes what we do is repetitious every day, so why have the same list every day. It’s just getting things done not just one day, but each and every day. Running the day-to-day operation of any of my businesses is really simple. I did what he did, doing a Daily Check Off Sheet, as I call them today, made me successful. I just realized after 10 years this was how I was able to run that grocery store at a very young age. An employee of his had come to his office and mentioned to him to write down a list of what needed done today, and what didn’t get done today, carry over to the next day. A story was in there how a top executive was having trouble getting things accomplished each day. During this time, I had subscribed to a monthly publication from Regan Publishing (Common Sense Working with People). I finally was able to open O’Henry’s and during the first 6 months of operating that business, things just didn’t flow like it did at the grocery store. When I sold the store and the down time I had while working on the O’Henry’s project, I got out of the daily habit of making a check off sheet. By this list I got things done! The sad part is that I didn’t know this until after I sold the small community grocery store and opened my Hamburger place (O’Henry’s Ole Fashion Hamburgers). ![]() Simms did, making a check-off sheet daily. That was the magic answer to everyone’s question. Simms did not missing a day for the next 10 years. The secret was I did this everyday just as Mr. During the day as the bag boys/stock clerks would come into work, they would work off this list. I would hang this clip board on a wooden pole in the stock room. From stocking a case of paper towels, to cleaning the bottom shelf of the milk cooler. I’d walked the store each morning with a clip board to make a list of items that needed done throughout the entire store. My first day as the new owner I kept up the routine Mr. So here is where the story really begins Simms did, I wouldn’t have a problem being a success”! The key part of my success was what customers in the beginning said “if I run it like Mr. I really didn’t know how to answer that question, because I didn’t really know myself. Over the years the question would come up from time to time, how was I able to run a grocery store at a very young age of 18. Simms did, I should be able to continue the success. Simms (better known as Sonny) was retiring and I was going to purchase the local community grocery store, most of the local customers knew me and said that if I run it like Mr. My dad co-signing an 85,000 note for me and after graduating from High School, I was the new owner of Simms Grocery. Simms decided to go ahead and retire due to a health issue. ![]() Simms the owner that I’d be interested in buying the store upon his retirement thinking it might be a few years out, but during my senior year, Mr. Working at Simms Store when I was 15 years old as a bag boy and stock clerk, I wasn’t interested in going to college after graduating from High School, so I had mentioned to Mr. I tell people I was in the right place at the right time. This is how I did it and really didn’t know I was doing it.
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