From Auditor to Editor, and many significant stops in-between, Jim Laube's journey has focused on serving those who serve others: restaurant owners and operators.
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Some of the biggest successes in business come from unlikely career pivots. For Jim Laube, founder and president of RestaurantOwner.com, a winding road of working in restaurants and working with numbers took him from auditor to editor.

Looking back, Jim’s hospitality career journey began as a kid working at a corn dog stand. Later, while attending college at Michigan State University (Go Green!), the accounting student by day still made time to work as a bartender at night.
“You stayed out late and you partied after work."
“You made good money and you had fun,” smiles RestaurantOwner.com Founder and CEO Jim Laube on the Digital Hospitality podcast.

Learn more about Jim Laube and RestaurantOwner.com on this fun and informative episode of the Digital Hospitality podcast, a production of Cali BBQ Media.

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RESTAURANT OWNER ONLINE
 

* Join RestaurantOwner.com – https://www.restaurantowner.com/public/Join-Restaurant-Owner.cfm
* Listen to the Corner Booth Podcast archive – https://www.restaurantowner.com/public/Corner-Booth-Podcast.cfm
* Restaurant Startup and Growth (RS&G) on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/RestaurantStartupGrowth/
* Restaurant Startup and Growth (RS&G) on Twitter – https://twitter.com/reststartupgrow
* Restaurant Startup and Growth (RS&G) on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/restaurant-start-up-and-growth-magazine/
* Restaurant Owner on YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/restaurantowner

 
Understanding Food Finances:
 

After getting his degree in East Lansing, Jim Laube journeyed down to Houston, Texas for accounting work in warmer weather. Even when working with numbers, he somehow found himself close to the heat of the kitchen.

His accounting acumen led Jim Laube to joining the audit team at Luther’s,