Collaboration and alignment between restaurant operations and marketing teams is critical to driving traffic without hurting the guest experience, Ray Johnson, Founder of ReCee’s Leadership Consulting Group, tells Bloomberg Intelligence. In this episode of the Choppin’ It Up podcast, Johnson sits down with BI’s senior restaurant and foodservice analyst Michael Halen to discuss how better employee retention and ease of execution can generate long-term, sustainable sales growth. He also commented on depressed productivity levels, the importance of team-member training and how a greater mix of off-premise sales has hurt restaurant-level execution.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.