New Year’s Resolutions for Your Restaurant As 2018 winds down to a close and we enter into a new year, this is the perfect time to assess your restaurant’s workflow and identify areas calling for improvement. In particular, focus on creating a strategy to eliminate unnecessary expenditures. The following...
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How to Successfully Navigate the Holidays Consumer trends are shifting as millennials grow in their influence. Millennials and Gen Zers are restructuring the holiday dining norms. A significant portion of these generations opt-out of the typical in-home holiday meal arrangements for dining-out options. With the growing demand for dining...
Don’t Forget the Details – Cut Sneaky Costs Restaurants lose a lot of money by neglecting areas in which small amounts of money are siphoned off unnecessarily. One of the major areas in which this occurs is accurate shift logging. Staff should not regularly clock in early. Yet, this...
Millennials Matter As time goes on, a change in power is inevitable. Millennials are quickly becoming the dominant consumer demographic, even supplanting baby boomers in restaurant-related consumer spending. Millennials are distinct from other generations in their likes and subsequent spending habits. The future is now. Restaurateurs must cater to...
Digital World The world is turning digital. Almost every experience in the first world is influenced in some way by a digital footprint. There is no room for a luddite attitude if you want your restaurant to survive the saturated food industry. Survivors know how to use the tools...
Give And Gain With all of the professional and personal preoccupations that fill the holiday season, organizing charitable efforts on behalf of your restaurant is most likely not on the top of your list of to-dos. However, there are tremendous benefits to be gained by developing a charitable initiative...
The Spirit of the Season The Christmas season is the pinnacle of the consumer calendar. The average American is predicted to spend around $794.00 this year on presents. Further, data gathered from a Sysco-owned technology company called CAKE showed that independent restaurants that remained open during Christmas saw a...
Fact There are certain days of the year in which restaurants know that they are going to be slammed with guests. New Years, Valentines day, Mother’s day are prime examples of occasions where restaurants can expect to be overwhelmed and for things to go wrong. Solution After surviving one...
Protect Your Assets Running a successful restaurant is a grueling job. The reality is that restaurateurs must devote most of their waking moments to maintaining their business in order to stay afloat. This requires tremendous personal sacrifice. So why invest the prime years of your life in a restaurant?...
Take a Lesson From Biology to Strengthen Your Management Game The mindset you bring into work everyday will largely determine your performance, and by extension, the performance of your team. There are always going to be stressors involved with managing a restaurant: it’s the nature of the game. Rather...
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