Owning Your Shift: How hourly restaurant employees can earn more and build a better future

Owning Your Shift: How hourly restaurant employees can earn more and build a better future

How reliable people build value, earn trust, and get promoted If you work hourly in a restaurant and want to earn more, stand out, and create real opportunity, this book was written with you in mind. Owning Your Shift breaks down the small, repeatable behaviors that managers actually notice — the ones that lead to trust, better shifts, more responsibility, and career momentum. Every restaurant shift tells a story — pressure, pace, teamwork, frustration, pride. But for many people entering the restaurant world, there’s no clear playbook for how to grow, stand out, or turn hard work into real advancement. Owning Your Shift is that playbook. Written for hourly restaurant employees, this practical guide shows you how to: • Think like an owner without being a manager • Take control of your shift instead of waiting to be told • Communicate clearly and professionally under pressure • Become someone your team can rely on — and promote Drawing from nearly a decade of coaching restaurant teams and thousands of conversations with owners, managers, servers, cooks, and dishwashers, Matthew Sloan shares what actually separates dependable employees from everyone else. This isn’t a management textbook. It’s a practical guide for anyone who wants to earn more trust, build confidence, and create momentum — one shift at a time.