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Saturday

Tips for Restaurant Menu Consistency

Pork Loin Tapas image by healthy1chefWhen planning your restaurant, you probably already have a menu in mind. You aren't going into business without a plan. What will set your restaurant apart from your competition? Let's help you today with restaurant menu consistency - a downfall of many restaurants so that you won't become another statistic of a failed restaurant.

Sunday

How to Increase Restaurant Sales

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All restaurant owners, managers and staff look for new ways and ideas to increase restaurant sales, thereby increasing their profits. Use your senses to determine what changes need made to help your restaurant turn a profit.

 It's not too late to make a few changes to your business that can help your bottom line. Small changes can lead to BIG profits if you play your cards right. You take a lot of financial risk when you open a restaurant and you need to do everything you can to make it a profitable business or all your work will be in vane and you could end up with  nothing.

Restaurant Kitchen Safety Tips



Use our Restaurant Kitchen Safety Tips to reduce falls and injury while keeping your kitchen clean and organized. As a restaurant owner or manager, it's up to you to provide the right tools, equipment and knowledge for your staff to keep your kitchen and everyone in it safe.
Multi Purpose Fire Extinguisher

 Keeping your kitchen safe will help you reduce staff worker's compensation claims and other workplace accidents or lawsuits from customers so it's an essential area to take seriously in your restaurant. Use our tips to make your business kitchen a place everyone will love and take pride in working it.

Monday

Restaurant Buffet Display Equipment



Ready to Host your Restaurant Buffet and need Display Equipment?
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We love hosting buffet brunch, lunch or dinner and find them fun, easy and each one is unique to the guests so they love them too. We set up a back room/area of the restaurant so that even if we're serving our regular menu to other customers, we have a party going on.

Saturday

How to Determine Restaurant Hours of Service

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In order to have a successful restaurant, you'll want to be open for business at the best times to bring in the largest amount of customers. Let's take a look at how to determine restaurant hours of service for your own space so that you will work smarter and not harder. It's possible but, you'll need to decide on a few key items first: We use the LED Open sign  with motion animation above on our bar windows to let customers know we're open for business and highly recommend it. Customers will see it from quite a distance and you can read the high reviews it gets from other customers just like you and me.

Thursday

Reducing Staff Turnover

Let's talk about reducing staff turnovers in your restaurant business today. Restaurants tend to be notorious for high staff turnover rates but, they don't have to be. Wouldn't you love keeping your greatest Chefs, bartenders, servers and other high producing staff? Sure you would and we can give you our best advice on how to reduce staff turnovers for you and your business.

Sunday

Easter Brunch/Dinner Menu Ideas

Happy Easter Decorated Eggs Table Runner

Easter Brunch as a buffet option for guests with all the fixings set up for them to see and served by our service staff. See photo ideas below.

Competition in Business - Set Your Restaurant Apart from Others


Handmade Pizza image by healthy1chef

 Looking for ways for your restaurant to compete in business? There are ways to deal with your competition so that you'll come out on top and it doesn't involve copying what they do. We'll share ideas to help you compete with the best restaurant in town week after week and month after month.

Saturday

Restaurant Name Ideas


Before you open your restaurant, you'll want a really cool restaurant name that people will be drawn to, they'll remember and that they'll love to say, share and frequent. How do you find the perfect name for your restaurant? Is it really that important?

Thursday

Build Relationships to Improve Business

Today I wanted to talk about how you can improve your business, increase sales and get your name and brand more well known by focusing on those customers that walk through your door every day.

Sunday

How to Open a Restaurant - Checklist for Success!


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Here we go!
Details you need once you get the idea that you'll own and operate the next great restaurant in your town/city and are ready to fulfill that dream into reality - How to Open a Restaurant. You've no doubt already read other sections of this well known blog and if not, take a few minutes now here to follow along so you won't miss any posts and read at your leisure. Follow our checklist and get ready to open your restaurant soon:

Thursday

How to Make Business Cards that Boost Sales

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We'll share How to Make your own Business Cards that Boost Sales and how/when to use them for your restaurant growth and success. Advertising your business is essential for your brand new restaurant, your continued growth and success and making your own business cards is one of our favorite ways to do it.

Sunday

Track your Business Success Every Day

Set of 2. Italian Cooking and Culinary Art II by Kerstin Arnold. Art Print Posters. (12 x 12)
Set of two culinary art prints by amazon
Want to be truly successful at owning and managing a restaurant? It's no easy task and takes a conscious effort on your part every day in all key areas. 

Business Finances - Money Management Tips for Restaurants

Get a handle on your restaurant business finances with Money Management Tips














      Ready for a better way to manage money, finances and paying bills to vendors on time? Need help organizing your vendors? Want an easier way to pay and track employee payroll? Looking for ways to organize your checking account safely? Wonder where all your money is going? Need a better way to get monthly, quarterly and year end reports to file your taxes?

How to Choose the Right Team for your Start Up Restaurant














 Restaurant Manager's Handbook on amazon.

     You'll want the right team of workers in place when you're planning your start up restaurant. What should you know? What should you look for? How can you trust brand new staff members that you don't know?

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