Langhoff & Juul
Jonas Langhoff is the driving force behind Langhoff & Juul: a small restaurant in the centre of Aarhus and a Hotel in the town of Ebeltoft 40 mins drive outside Aarhus.Both the restaurant and the hotel are run by the same principle: Time is the most important resource we have.
The principle of time as a resource is simple: If you have enough time you will do a better job when you are doing it, be better prepared, be more aware in each moment that you interact with the customers and you will not deplete your other resources and get stressed and injured. You will on the other hand enjoy the work, find new and smarter ways of doing things and not least have time to reflect on the work and as a result be able to take on a much more individual responsibility of your tasks.
The practical way of providing more time to do all these things is to cut down opening hours, the restaurant is open only 3 nights a week: Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and in the off-season, the hotel is only open on the weekends.
This of course means that the revenue is lower than what could be achieved with a full week opening plan, but then the staff would be just as busy as in all other restaurants, and the objective of having enough “time” would not be met. The restaurant also put a cap on the number of guests, so the maximum number for people is 35, even though the room and kitchen could probably serve 70 people.
No one at Langhoff & Juul should work more than 30 hours a week, and if they do so in peak periods the management team will come up with solutions for bringing it down to the preferred weekly workload.