Bartending for Dummies

We like this series of books for bars and restaurant owners and managers. Unless you've been or are a bartender yourself, it's really important to understand everything about the bar and the business of running it.

Check out Bartending for Dummies to learn or review information on garnishes and how to cut and store your fruit for drinks, the right glasses to buy and use for each drink, recipes for all liquors and especially the most popular ones.

New Page Added Today - Associations/Groups/Magazines for your Restaurant

Today's post is short and sweet:

Check out our newest page we just added today:

Associations/Groups/Magazines for the Restaurant Owner/Manager. As the owner, it's up to you to stay on top of your business, your competition and what's happening in the industry. As a manager, it's up to you to keep everything in line if you're in charge. We hope you like our list and really hope it helps you find free or inexpensive ideas to generate profit in your business.

That's all for today, please let us know your comments.

Cheers!

Restaurant Cleaning Supplies

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Here you'll find our best Restaurant Cleaning Supplies that are the most effective, best deals and worth the money to have all your surfaces sparkling for your customers, you and the staff. Keeping your restaurant clean is one of the most important things you can do to stay in business, grow your business and to

Tax Receipts to Get your Restaurant Office Organized

When you have slow or down time in your restaurant, as the manager or owner, market your business with your social networking groups, work on your flyers, business cards, shoot an email to your customers and vendors about the newest specials and menu items -- just stay busy, do a little housekeeping and work in your office when all else is done.
      YUCK, I know. We all hate to do it but, you must stay organized, make your list of to-do's and get all your receipts organized. Working on your taxes all year long will help you when tax season rolls around and you can get your information to your tax accountant and get that fat return back into your checking account!

Make sure you have a busy staff, keep them busy with things to do, organize the server area and the bar, polish silverware, dust visible entry areas and the dining room before customers arrive or anything else to clean and stay busy. Once you know the staff has things to do to stay busy, you can head to your office.

Here's a nice article to help you figure out what you really need to keep, what you can toss and it's much better to start working on your taxes any time before the due date to make life easier.

Here's the article we mentioned, hope you enjoy it: Receipts - Keep what you need for FilingTaxes.

Until next time, please take our poll at the top right of the home page and subscribe for the latest posts and as always, we love your comments so thank you in advance for taking the time to say hi!
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Reduce Waste in Your Restaurant

Successful restaurants always have a keen eye for reducing waste as a way to lower costs and to increase profit. Do you have a kitchen staff, wait staff and bar staff that is paying attention to waste or are they adding to the problem? 
                          Use our tips to help you reduce waste and make more money!

Maintain a Restaurant during Slow Business

Sometimes, the summer heat can cause your restaurant to lose some business and you need to find a way or ways to maintain a successful restaurant to stay in business. This is a very hot summer so far so you may be feeling the pinch.

Here are some quick tips to use now to help lower restaurant costs and improve sales:

Cleaning a Restaurant

One of your most important jobs as a restaurant owner or manger is to make sure you have a clean restaurant. It's not only key to drawing customers and keeping them returning as loyal patrons but, also it's one of the requirements of the Board of Health in your city. Two of the most important areas we'll discuss are cleaning your restrooms and cleaning all your kitchen equipment. We've had perfect health inspections for the last 17 years and one of those reasons is that we keep a sparkling clean restaurant that the Health Department loves to see, so do we and so do our customers!!

Here are our tips for cleaning a restaurant whether you have a cleaning company come in and do it, hire a cleaning person or two for the job or assign it to one of your currently staffed employees for extra money. The most cost effective cleaning, we've found,

10 Ways to Improve Restaurant Summer Business

Are you feeling the pinch of summertime in your restaurant? It's early July, the temperatures are rising, kids are off from school, people are planning lots of outdoor events, picnics, neighborhood parties, trips and many of them are free, plus there's the pool and the beach. Have you already read our Summer Tips to Increase Restaurant Business? Hopefully, you have and you've started to implement some of those ideas. How do you compete with everything happening during the summer and get customers to your business? It's a tough question, no doubt. We'll share 10 ways to improve restaurant summer business so you can not only stay in business but, have a profitable summer.

     First, here's our scenario: we're located in the downtown area just not on the main drag, we're not on the water but nearby, we're a casual fine dining restaurant with a cosmopolitan atmosphere of copper walls, granite counters and bar, imported fabrics and glass walls separating the bar and dining area, a wood floor bar with soft seating areas and the best price and quality for a Samsung Plasma 51" flat screen tv we added for customers - which we highly recommend you add somewhere in your restaurant, large windows to see the outside,

Commercial Restaurant Equipment - Outdoor Grills

Looking for commercial restaurant grills? We have the best outdoor grills for you here with the best prices for top rated grills for home or business use! Homeowners are buying more commercial equipment because of it's durability, ease of use, functionality and affordability compared to buying new grills every few years. Restaurants need quality equipment to be able to produce large volumes of food for customers and if you don't have an outdoor grill, you could be losing out on summer business. Stay tuned for some of our favorite summer recipes to make on your new grill - coming soon!  Do yourself a favor and check out these awesome, high performance grills for your restaurant, you won't be disappointed! Start notifying your customers now of your new outdoor menu and have your grill in just a few days!

   Here are our favorite picks for the best grill for your restaurant: