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title: "The TRUTH About Multi-Unit Leadership In Restaurants"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/2f32d448-b86f-497c-8602-b2509af6dbd1
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/the-truth-about-multi-unit-leadership-in-restaurants-2715709
category: "Franchise Industry"
industry: "Franchise Industry"
topics: ["Emerging brands","Development & multi-unit","People"]
published: 2021-05-11T17:12:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:25:52.183Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/f93922c7014ee7664b734978ad8937dd1683.jpg
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# The TRUTH About Multi-Unit Leadership In Restaurants

**TL;DR:** A video discusses the importance of multi-unit leadership in restaurants, focusing on promoting and mentoring general managers. Mentoring can lead to greater success for multi-unit leaders, shortening their learning curve and providing consistent support.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2021-05-11. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/the-truth-about-multi-unit-leadership-in-restaurants-2715709).*

## Story

In this video, I'd like to share my thoughts on multi-unit leadership in restaurants. What can you do to bring out the 'A game' of your multi-unit leaders?

Promotions can be an amazing opportunity to grow personally and professionally and often receive a higher salary to boot. But unfortunately, that process doesn’t always work out or go so smoothly.

I frequently see extremely talented General Managers (GM) earn a promotion to District Manager (DM) — sometimes also called an Area Manager (AM) or Multi-Unit Leader (MUL). And interestingly, despite how qualified and well-suited for the position they may seem, they actually fail in this new role instead of thrive.

Mentoring does lead to greater success, yet in practice, it can be a difficult program to implement. And understandably so because, quite frankly, everyone already has so much on their plates.

Instead of having these multi-unit leaders mostly flounder and “learn on the job,” mentorship offers the opportunity to shorten the learning curve by providing more consistent support along the way.

Considering that MULs can impact dozens of GMs, hundreds of employees, and thousands of customers, pairing up an established MUL with a new leader for a few weeks seems like a much smaller sacrifice.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Franchise Industry (sector)
- Multi-Unit (company)
- restaurant management (topic)
- mentoring (topic)
- multi-unit leadership (topic)
- general managers (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/the-truth-about-multi-unit-leadership-in-restaurants-2715709). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/2f32d448-b86f-497c-8602-b2509af6dbd1).