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Canlis shut down its profitable fine-dining business to preserve staff hours
“Pretty quickly we realized that it would be just as risky to do nothing as it would to do something really radical, and if we were gonna live into our values then, you know, every once in a while that really is probably gonna cost you something, and this way i…”
Canlis COVID pivot served 1,200 drive-thru and 300 breakfast customers daily
“But today we served, you know, about 1200 people through the drive-thru. We served about, I don't know, somewhere in the range of 300 people for breakfast. Tonight we'll send a couple hundred dinners out for delivery”
Canlis kitchen requires 20 hours of prep for a five-hour service
“There are four hours a day we don't use our kitchen. So it's 20, it takes us 20 hours to open for what is essentially five hours of dinnertime service.”
Canlis loses money on bagels but expects delivery to become profitable
“That's to say the bagel concepts clearly does not make money. It's labor intensive. We don't have the equipment to scale that in any way such that we could move that to be a profitable business. We could raise the prices, but that just feels dirty. So the poin…”
Canlis overhauls its internal operating systems entirely every 18 months
“You just don't know it, but we open a second restaurant about every 18 months. I would say that's how often the systems inside of Canlis are changing. And those are being rewritten by new employees and employees that have been here 20 years.”