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It’s Not You—It’s Your Hospitality

It’s Not You—It’s Your Hospitality

By: Preston Lee
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It’s Not You, It’s Your Hospitality is for independent restaurant owners, operators, and leaders who want to build thriving businesses without burning out their teams or losing sight of what hospitality really means.


Hosted by Preston Lee, founder of The 30% Rule, this podcast dives into the systems, leadership strategies, and culture shifts that separate the struggling 90% of restaurants from the top 10% that thrive. With over 20 years in the industry and a decade spent helping major brands grow sales, Preston shares raw stories, proven tools, and hard lessons learned from the front lines.


If you’re tired of high turnover, inconsistent guest experiences, and the endless cycle of training without transformation—this podcast will dive deep into the world of Hospitality and show you how to fix it once and for all.


Because at the end of the day, it’s not you—it’s your hospitality.

© 2026 It’s Not You—It’s Your Hospitality
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Episodes
  • Restaurant Server Success System in 45 mins...
    May 22 2026

    Restaurant culture is broken… and nobody wants to talk about it.

    In this server training I break down the detrimental mindset that is destroying hospitality and restaurant culture and instead show how to thrive in the industry. In this powerful training, we dive deep into what real hospitality actually means and why the best servers, bartenders, managers, and restaurant leaders don’t operate from entitlement, they operate from service, consistency, and care.

    This video covers restaurant leadership, teamwork, mental health in hospitality, guest experience, server training, and examples of how top-performing restaurants build loyal guests that keep coming back. We talk about why toxic attitudes around tips, sections, and coworkers create miserable work environments, and how the best hospitality brands focus on culture, guest retention, and creating unforgettable experiences instead.

    Christy and I go through her journey from server to manager to shift lead, along with the lessons she’s learned about leadership, communication, emotional control, and leading by example in a fast-paced restaurant environment. I break down how she and restaurants in general can improve training systems, create stronger team culture, and help employees develop a winning mindset without burning out.

    So If you work in restaurants, whether you’re a server, bartender, manager, or owner, this 1 on 1 training will challenge the way you think about hospitality, teamwork, and leadership and give you the server success secrets to advance your career.

    🔥 Reserve your seat at our free training built for the 2026 workforce. Learn how to build simple, repeatable systems that run even when you’re off-site:

    👉 https://join.30percentrule.com/training

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    47 mins
  • Top 10 Reasons Restaurant Management Fails
    May 17 2026

    In this podcast, I break down the 8 biggest restaurant leadership problems I’ve seen after working with over 350 restaurants worldwide and evaluating more than 1,000 restaurant operations, from small mom-and-pop shops to multi-million dollar hospitality groups.

    And here’s the truth: the problems are always the same. The only difference is scale.

    If you’re a restaurant owner, operator, or manager, this video will hit home. We cover real-world challenges around restaurant leadership, staff accountability, training systems, guest experience, and team culture and more importantly, how to actually fix them.

    You’ll learn how to handle difficult guest interactions without lowering your hospitality standards, why allowing “small” issues like lateness destroys your culture, and how to create clear systems that hold your team accountable without relying on personalities. We also dive into how to deal with “bad apple” employees, how to turn around team performance through structure and consistency, and the simple behaviors that dramatically improve the guest experience.

    This isn’t theory. These are proven strategies used across hundreds of successful restaurants to build high-performing teams, consistent service, and strong leadership cultures that drive revenue and retention.

    So, If you’ve ever struggled with:

    Inconsistent staff performance
    Weak accountability systems
    Poor guest experiences
    High turnover or “bad apple” employees
    Lack of training or leadership structure

    …then this podcast will give you the clarity and direction you’ve been missing.

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    19 mins
  • Restaurant Management Training that Turns Them into Leaders (ROI time)
    May 8 2026

    For this in depth restaurant management training...Preston sits down with rising restaurant leader Camille, to break down the real-world management training that transforms restaurant managers into true leaders.

    After leaving her photography business, Cammy started as a hostess in 2021 and quickly climbed the ranks into restaurant leadership. Now managing the floor at a busy Southern California Mexican restaurant, she shares the biggest challenges she and restaurant managers face today, from guest recovery and hospitality consistency to leadership culture and team accountability.

    This conversation dives deep into:

    • Restaurant management training
    • How to become a better restaurant leader
    • Guest recovery systems that actually work
    • Hospitality vs. service
    • Building consistency in restaurant operations
    • Managing restaurant culture and employee productivity
    • Leadership mindset for restaurant managers
    • How top-performing restaurants create unforgettable guest experiences
    • The difference between “order takers” and “experience makers”
    • Restaurant systems, training, and accountability

    Preston shares his lessons from working with 350+ restaurants worldwide and explains why leadership, systems, and training are the foundation of every successful restaurant brand.


    🔥 Reserve your seat at our free training built for the 2026 workforce. Learn the 4-Domino Sequence Behind Every Restaurant Doing $7M+ With 15% Margins, The Proven System That's Scaled 350+ Restaurants By Weaponizing Hospitality and much more!

    Reserve Your Seat Here 👉 https://join.30percentrule.com/training

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    1 hr and 13 mins
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Based in the UK and a fan of the 30% rule and ideals. Will be in in touch regarding bringing your expertise to our team and venues and looking forward to hearing more, learning from this podcast and glad to have left the first of many five star reviews!

Very insightful and looking forward to hearing more

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