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...
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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...
5 Easy Ways to Support Your Staff on Rough Days Life ebbs and flows. If there is one thing you can be certain of in the ever-evolving restaurant industry, it’s that some days will be better than others. As a manager, the responsibility of carrying your team through storms...
3 Ways to Make Your Food Instagrammable Social media influences consumer trends in every market. Those in the restaurant industry are perfectly poised to harness its power. Meals are a hot-ticket item on Instagram. Posting pictures of food and people enjoying a meal is a social trend that is...
Create Real Engagement with Your Guests In our fast paced world, it’s essential that you work smart, as well as hard. Engaging an active client base is more complicated these days than ever before. People have unlimited options when it comes to their meals, and they have a multitude...
We live in an age of unprecedented access to knowledge and resources. The amount of information available at our fingertips is overwhelming. Rather than watching the nth video of laughing babies, why not use that time to learn something about management? YouTube can be a time-sucking black hole,...
Three Rapport-Building Techniques Every Successful Manager Needs to Practice. Management is not a cake walk. Although there are perks to being a manager, there are also hefty responsibilities which accompany the role. Life gets complicated when managers don’t have the skills necessary to effectively interact with their employers, subordinates,...
Common Things Most People Don’t Want to Know About Waitstaff Part of running a good restaurant is creating an ambiance that heightens one of the most commonplace affairs: eating. Eating at a restaurant is about enjoyment without the restraints of food preparation and cleanup. Successful restaurants are inviting and...
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