The Receipts · updated jul 2026
Why listen to me? Fair question.
You should audit anyone who gives you advice about your money. Here's my audit, itemized: the wins, the scars, and the stuff you can check yourself.
One small shop. A few thousand dollars.
The honest part
The early 720 years included months with $0 income. I saw strong sales and assumed the business was healthy, until the bank account said $1,000, $2,000, sometimes negative. I learned prime cost by being on the wrong side of it. I signed a lease I shouldn't have. I made hires I shouldn't have. The frameworks on this site weren't invented in a workshop. They were paid for in cash, time, and sleep. Mostly mine.
Count them yourself.
The rooms I sit in now.
Plant Veda: board advisor at a publicly traded F&B company. Public-company governance means the numbers I talk about get audited for real.
Workstream: I work alongside the team at Workstream, the HR/hiring/payroll platform serving 35,000+ restaurant brands, including 46 of the top 50 QSR chains. Full transparency: it's a working relationship, and I name it every time. What it buys you as a reader is a live window into what's actually happening across thousands of restaurant operations (hiring, wages, turnover), not just my own stores. I use it as evidence, never as a pitch.
People who did the thing.
On the record.
Awards
- BCBusiness 30 Under 30, 2016 Named as founder and CEO of Wun2Free Entertainment. Read the BCBusiness profile →
- Top 10 Emerging Entrepreneur
Press and boards
- Forbes.com, 7 Council Posts on restaurants Written while a Forbes Business Council member, Sept 2020 to Apr 2021. See the articles →
- Plant Veda Foods, board of advisors, 2021 Joined the advisory board of the publicly traded Canadian plant-based food company, announced in the Financial Post via GlobeNewswire. Read the announcement →
- Carl's Jr. CEO interview Interviewed Joe Guith, CEO of CKE Restaurants (Carl's Jr. and Hardee's), on stage at Workstream's On the Clock 2026. Posted on Workstream's Scale Your Restaurant channel. Watch the interview →
Audit done. Now use the free stuff.
Everything the receipts back up is free on this site: the guides, the calculator, the worksheets. If you want my eyes on your numbers directly, that exists too.