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

Waring Commercial Xtreme Hi Power Blender image by amazon

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.

Getting Ready for Tax Deductions and the New Year

Just a quick reminder for everyone to start the New Year off right:

     Before the end of the year, spend some time knowing what tax deductions you can take so you can pay less on your yearly tax return and keep more of your hard earned money.

     Get ready now to perform your year end inventory list too. Document everything you have left in all your coolers, your dry storage and pantry areas, your beer, wine and liquor too. All of these items must be on a list with the value of each item and then totaled up. Your account will need these figures as they are considered profit to your business. You bought them, own them and just didn't sell them - it's a tricky and sticky part of being in the restaurant industry and any business for that matter. You'll get better each year and not overstocking items just before the New Year since it must all be counted.

     If you need commercial equipment for your restaurant, this is a great time to buy it for the tax deduction you'll get as well as you'll have the best equipment to give your customers what they want. Do you need a commercial espresso machine or other commercial cooking equipment? Find it right here with our fair and honest reviews that will help you save money and get the best products that work. We're adding to our equipment reviews all the time.

     Use these tips and more ways we help you make money in the restaurant industry by following along with this blog and our posts. Bookmark it with your favorites so you'll know each new post we add.

     Happy New Year everyone, thanks so much for reading, we love your comments and questions so keep them coming and let us all know your challenges and successes.

     Cheers!

Year End Tips for Restaurants - Reflecting on Goals

Happy Holidays in your restaurant!

You're no doubt busier than ever with the Christmas season in full swing and only days away. You've planned and decorated, marketed and trained and the New Year is upon us all. It's time to reflect on goals you've made in the last year and look forward to new goals to help you get ahead. Are you ready for what

Handling Food Safely

One of my biggest concerns in the restaurant industry, and your own home as a matter of fact is handling food safely. As a chef for 30+ (yes, I've been at this business all my life and I'm getting up in age!) I've always watched, trained and taught this subject to everyone that's ever worked for me. From the dishwasher to the servers to the prep cooks and chefs in my own business and others I've worked for, everyone needs to pay attention to how to handle food safely. From wearing our favorite powder free gloves, to food handling signs and using color coded cutting boards we'll share our favorite products too.

Use my Top 6 safe food handling tips

November in your Restaurant Business. It's Turkey Time!

November is Turkey Month and Happy Thanksgiving month in the USA and you should be ready in your restaurant to help your customers with the most delicious meal of the month! We'll share our best tools of the trade to cook lots of your amazing turkey recipes and to create beautiful tables for your guests. The sooner you start to plan for all the busy days of November, the more business you will book.

If you open your doors for business on Thanksgiving Day, don't be surprised at how busy you'll be! You'll find lots of customers that do go out for dinner on this holiday either with their own families or because they have no family in town or just don't want to cook! This is also a great month to show customer appreciation with a sweet and thoughtful thank you gift - it's the month of Thanksgiving! Check out our favorite ways to thank our customers here.

You'll have several choices in setting up your own menu from a sit down Thanksgiving dinner to creating a beautiful holiday buffet for your guests. Either way, Thanksgiving is a holiday to make special

Wow, It's Autumn already!

You might not be ready for it but, the calendar says it's the fall season already. Here's what we're up to and some of these ideas might help you too.

   * Start marketing for the upcoming banquet and holiday season. Really, it's never too early to let people know about your banquet spaces for their office parties, family gatherings, reunions, anniversary parties, birthdays and weddings. Make flyers to post in your restaurant, add a message to your credit card receipts, create your own business cards with a discount if booked by a certain date. We love these business cards that are scored for easy tearing and we buy in bulk so we always have them on hand and use them

Free Restaurant Advertising Ideas

We have some great free restaurant advertising ideas here for you! You'll want to let customers know about your new business or your business that has seen a decrease in business and may not have thought about your advertising budget yet. Advertising can be very expensive and a necessary evil to help your bottom line. There are so many other things you need to spend your hard earned money on, especially in a restaurant, so how do you get the word out? We share our best ways to advertise that are free, easy, little maintenance and that work to let customers know about you and your business.

Looking for Free Business Advertising? Great, we can help. Being in business for yourself can be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life but, it can also be extremely costly especially if