FooDingle

Hello and thank you for stopping by. I am in the process of moving everything over to www.foodingle.com. Please stop by and check it out. Contact FooDingler through that site and please give me some feedback.
I am creating an online hospitality/food enthusiast community, and I would love every one’s input and feedback.
Thank you for your time.

Inspirational Quotes

“We will never be able to change the winds, but it is within our power to adjust the sails.”-Roberto Goizueta

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”-Ronald Reagan

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”-William Arthur Ward

“Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog.” Mark Twain

“Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” Lyndon B Johnson

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” Sir Winston Churchill

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” Confucius

Motivational Quotes

It is very important to keep your staff motivated. There are various ways of doing this, but sometimes a simple quote posted on the board or talked about at line ups can help. Below is a list of quotes that I like.

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started” Mark Twain

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle

“It is hard to fail, but it worse never to have tried to succeed.” Theodore Roosevelt

“The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.” Theodore Roosevelt

“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.” Bruce Lee

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” Henry Ford

“You will never possess what you are unwilling to pursue.” Mike Murdock

“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has masters himself is mightier still.” Lao-Tzu

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.” William James

“To move ahead you need to believe in yourself…have conviction in your beliefs and the confidence to execute those beliefs.” Adlin Sinclair

“People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader’s job is to help people have vision of their potential.” John Porter

“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.” Andrew Carnegie

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” Jim Ryun

“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” Stephen R. Covey

What are bloggers saying about your business?

Knowing what is being said about your business on the internet is very important as positive things are great and good for your business and negative things can be very damaging.
Lets face it, just about everyone goes to the internet for their source of information and if they were just visiting your web site, then you could paint the picture about your business that you want everyone to see and know about you, and that would be all there is to it.
However, there are so many places on the internet for anyone to go and review your business, positive or negative. Blogging is now such a large part of the internet and has gained a great deal of popularity and credibility that a negative write up on your business can be very damaging and in the hands of the right blogger can go viral over the internet.
I use Google alerts to let me know whenever anything is written about the business I manage. You can set up these alerts here http://www.google.com/alerts and it seems to work pretty well, it even picks up my tweets from twitter. There are other sites that you can use, this just the one I use.
So far I have only encountered positive writings and they are great to share with our staff to help keep morale as high as possible. But if and when I encounter a negative one, I will be able to at least address it before it spins out of control and reaches to many people. Blog alerts can play an important part managing the business and I work way to hard to allow anything negative to go unaddressed.