Made from Scratch

The Legendary Success Story of Texas Roadhouse

De: Kent Taylor

Narrado por: George Newbern

An Instant Wall Street Journal Best Seller

From founder Kent Taylor, the incredible made-from-scratch success story of Texas Roadhouse.

In Made from Scratch, the late business maverick Kent Taylor tells the legendary story of Texas Roadhouse and in the process reveals its recipe for success: embracing unorthodox business practices. Because isn’t it a little unusual for a company to do almost no advertising? Is it wild to give away free peanuts and rolls and keep prices low, even as costs rise, or to keep the menu basically the same since it opened? Does it fly in the face of reason to prohibit coats and ties at headquarters and to have a CEO who dressed like he was part of the landscaping crew?

These business practices might be unconventional, but for Kent and Texas Roadhouse, they worked. What Kent and his Roadies cooked up is an island of misfits who are cool with being different. They love to have fun, but are serious about following meticulous recipes to serve up hand-cut steaks, fall-off-the-bone ribs, made-from-scratch sides, ice-cold beer, and irresistible fresh-baked bread. It’s Legendary Food, Legendary Service, the Texas Roadhouse way.

To show how this company became a staple of American dining and survived a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, Kent took a trip back in time to offer the lessons learned from his pathbreaking life, revealing how a distracted kid from Louisville, Kentucky, created anything worthwhile at all.

©2021 Kent Taylor. All rights reserved. (P)2021 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

Great read!

Terrific story and narration was superb. Would recommend to anyone interested in entering the restaurant business or contemplating starting a business.

Entertaining book - Great narration

Entertaining book - Great narration - an interesting story that both entertains and inspires. So sad we lost the author during COVID.

Legendary

as someone who has worked at this company for 6 years, who has struggled in different areas in life only for Texas Roadhouse to be the one place to build my confidence within myself back up.
listening to this book has ignited the fire within me to follow my own passions, although outside of Texas Roadhouse follow my dream to create my own stories.

rock on

Kent was an incredible person with great insight and even greater love of his roadies

Awesome book!!!

Loved it, awesome book. Truly Inspiring! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Very good autobiography

Very good for anyone in the food service industry or restaurant owning perspective as myself

Great book

Amazingly real book talking honestly about his failures and success! Love the lack of bureaucracy listening to his people and environment of fun! RIP KENT

Great Messages

Part Biography and part leadership. From self proclaimed slacker to industry icon. Easy listen and read with loads of entertaining thoughts on struggling through adversity and leading people.

Excellent advice.

It’s NOT just about restaurants. Re-listen again and again. You’ll get something new each time.

Passion

Weather you work for Texas Roadhouse or not, or have never even been to, or heard of one, this book is for you. It tells the story of hardship and resilience and betting on yourself. Especially useful as a leadership tool, take care of your team and your team will take care of you.