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Labor, hiring, culture, pricing, and the shift from craft shop to operating company.
ShopsSaturday, Aug 29 lets kids onto the San Antonio floor for $10. Cute? Yes. Also the clearest public signal yet that shops are fighting a recruiting pipeline problem.
ShopsInstall knowledge is revenue. Centralized notes reduce rework, accelerate training, and make multi-bay quality repeatable instead of heroic.
ShopsTraining pipelines are thin, expectations are high, and retention is a management problem disguised as a “labor market” problem.
ShopsThe next generation of owners is not the best tinkerer in the shop—they are the person who can read a P&L, hire adults, and build systems.
