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.

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