Top Best and Worst Reasons to Open a Restaurant

Thinking about opening a restaurant? Think you can be successful? Want a place to host all your friends?  Owning a restaurant isn't for everyone, no matter how much time or money you have. You'll need to know

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what it takes before you decide that this is the right business for you or you could end up losing everything you own now, in the future and having to start all over again.

Preparing for Holidays in the restaurant industry

When you're in the hospitality industry, you always - yes always- need to be thinking and preparing for the next big holiday. The holidays are fun get togethers for all your guests and customers. It's our job as restaurant owners and managers to be ready for the holidays and to offer a comfortable and affordable place

Share Candy with the Kids in the Neighborhood - It's Halloween!

Last Minute Halloween Tips for Restaurants. Whether or not you yourself celebrate Halloween, when you run a restaurant it's always a good idea to take part in all the holidays that your neighbors do. One really big one is Halloween and we hope you'll get involved. Use these tips to increase your customer base at Halloween:

Tips for Paying Vendors and Other Invoices

   

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It's important to pay all your vendors and other invoices on time when you're running a restaurant for more reasons than you might think. If you're just getting started in business, you need help creating a system of bill paying that works. If you've been in business for a while and are running into trouble paying bills, you need to get back on track before it's too late.  We'll list some of the benefits of paying on time and help you with tips to stay on top of all those bills that keep coming in on a weekly or monthly basis.

Dining Room Staff Interview Sample for Servers/ Bartenders/ Bussers and Food Runners

Interviewing your dining room servers and staff is an important part of creating the team of workers you want in your restaurant. You want to find the best qualified servers and bartenders if you hope to be successful in your restaurant or bar. Do you need help learning how to interview and find the best candidate for the job?  What behaviors and non verbal communication should you pay attention to?

Do your best every day

One of our tips for your successful restaurant is to do your best every day even though there are so many things on your to do list. When you start to pay attention to the small details, so will your staff. If you tend to ignore things out of place, dirt and mess - so will your staff. Customers however, will not ignore them and

Best Work Attire - Restaurant Uniform Ideas

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Since your restaurant staff will be those employees that first greet and take care of your customers, it's a great and important idea to make sure they are wearing the best work attire so today we share these restaurant uniform ideas to show off your staff. If you're just getting started opening a restaurant, you'll want

Restaurant Server Training

Training restaurant servers is one of the most important tasks you will do in your business. Provide your own restaurant server training so that everyone that agrees to work in your business is on the same page. You'll want to make sure that everyone knows your goals for your business, staff and customers.

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Pitfalls of Poor Management

It's important to learn how to be a great manager not only for your own self confidence, personal and business growth but, also for the benefit of your entire company and the bottom line. The Pitfalls of Poor Management will be evident in your restaurant business (or any other business for that matter) when you start

Tracking Restaurant Inventory

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Let's tackle that huge amount of inventory you have in your restaurant. That's money sitting in those pantries and coolers so it's worth it to keep a well controlled inventory before you continue buying more products. I like to assign this task to my chefs and cooks but, do often do it myself. I'm the owner and Chef so it's

Relax - Taking a Break from Work

I wonder if you have time for yourself to take a break from your restaurant business? We'll share the benefits of relaxing and some of our favorite ways to relax to give you some ideas for yourself.  If you're not opened seven days a week, you have at least one day for taking a break from work to relax and I hope you do it. There are loads of tasks that always need done or checked in your business but how about some time for you. Here are some of the benefits to relaxing and my best ideas to make it happen.

Tips to Improve your Restaurant Business

Hey, it's the end of another long week for you. Hopefully you had a good week with happy customers, happy staff, everyone made some money, you're paying your bills on time and getting ready for another week to do it all over again.

Emergency First Aid Kit - Are You Ready?

   Today I'm wondering if you have your own emergency first aid kit at the ready when accidents and emergencies happen in your restaurant. My cooks and chefs are often cutting or burning themselves so at the very least we go through loads of band aids, antibiotic ointment and bandages. Check out more on this article I wrote on How to Prepare a Basic Emergency First Aid Kit if you aren't ready yourself.

Control Tempers in your Restaurant

Working in a restaurant can be stressful and anyone that thinks it's easy to own or operate a restaurant has obviously never done it. You've no doubt watched the television shows such as 'Bar Rescue', 'Hell's Kitchen', 'Kitchen Nightmares' and so on. What they have in common is

Make your own Pasta - Italian Imperia Motorized Pasta Machine

Looking for how to make your own pasta? Why not! It's fun, easy and rewarding for yourself, your customers and even your family to make your own pasta noodles or soup noodles for all your best recipes. It won't take much more time than buying bulk pasta but, the rewards are huge. Wouldn't you love to tell your customers that all your pasta dishes offer homemade pastas? You'll love it and so will they! Customers look for restaurants that offer unique items that are delicious otherwise, why should they come to your business if they can do it at home themselves.... Making your own pasta is a money saver too, you'll pay for your machine in no time with more customers coming through the door.

These are our favorite features of our pick for Best Pasta Machine: 

Best Commercial Bar/Restaurant Blender

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Waring Commercial Hi Power Food Blender is our pick for the Best Commercial Bar/Restaurant Blender for lots of reasons.

Power and Durability: You need the power and durability of commercial grade equipment that can handle all the work you do in your restaurant business (and it's awesome for home use too) from making sauces and soups to creating fabulous, fast smoothies, coffee drinks and cocktails, to shaving ice for the perfect drinks and even milkshakes like a pro.

Improve your customer service today!

Today let's talk about improving your customer service - it can always be better in any business. Better customer service will help you, your staff, your customers and the long term business in your operations. Here's a few tips to keep in mind to remind your staff off and to be aware of yourself. These are our Top 10 Ways We Improve Customer Service Every Day!

How do you spend your days in your restaurant?

This post is meant to learn more about you and what you're up to. We usually share with you things we do, equipment we love, products that make your restaurant business work harder for you but, today it's all about you! We want to know how you spend your days in your restaurant.