5 Tips For Getting Started in the Restaurant Industry
FACT: The restaurant industry is not for everyone. Even with the best intentions, skills, menus, and dreams, some people will not achieve success as a restaurateur. It’s hard, it’s stressful, it’s full of long hours and long periods of labor. Some people have found that they don’t enjoy the stress of the job, while others […]
Can You Run a Restaurant By Yourself?
Can you run a restaurant by yourself? The short answer is no. The slightly longer answer is that you don’t want to. Ultimately, it is probably possible to run your restaurant by yourself, but it likely won’t be sustainable for long. Running a restaurant is hard work. If you haven’t tried it yet, then you […]
Why Food Inventory Management Is Critical in a Restaurant
Managing your restaurant’s food inventory is absolutely crucial. If you haven’t found this out yet, you certainly will. Say you’re making grilled cheese sandwiches, and your cook is putting an extra slice of cheese on each sandwich. At some point, you’re going to unexpectedly run out of cheese; hopefully it’s after your run on cheese […]
Management Tips for Restaurateurs
What is one of your most important roles as a restaurateur? Maybe not so surprisingly, when you become the boss of a restaurant, regardless of whether you’re the manager or the owner, your role is about people. We know what you’re thinking – of course your job is about people. You work in the hospitality […]
5 Tips for Attracting Attention to Your Restaurant
“A brand is no longer what we tell the customer it is. It is what customers tell each other it is.” -Scott Cook Anyone can offer food. You can buy food at countless restaurants and fast food joints down almost every street in every city. You can get food at grocery stores, markets, and […]
3 Ways a VoIP Phone System Will Improve Your Restaurant
As a restaurateur, you have a lot of bills to pay and a lot going on. You have to source your food, buy and maintain equipment, rent or buy a location, pay taxes, power, and more. Even if you were inclined to make the changeover to VoIP, how could adding another system possibly offer you […]
Restaurant Operation in the New Normal (2022)
Operating a restaurant in 2022 is not like it used to be. After the rise of the ongoing global pandemic, many restaurants had to shut down. After that, re-opening has been a problem for multiple reasons: business is down and financing is, too; supply chains are having difficulty matching demand; and staffing is nearly impossible. […]
4 Questions You Can’t Afford to Forget About When Starting A Restaurant
Well, you’ve had your great idea. Or perhaps it’s your lifelong dream. You want to open a restaurant! Maybe you’re an amazing cook and your friends have been telling you for years that you have to open a restaurant. Maybe it’s just something you’ve always wanted to do. Maybe you love baking so much you […]
Attracting Customers Using An Online Presence
Americans spend an average of 5.4 hours on their phones every day. How do you get customers walking in to your physical location using the device that’s already in their hands? Here are a few tips: ONLINE REVIEWS According to a recent Upserve study, 90% of people look up restaurants and food places online before […]
Covid Staffing Issues in 2022
If you’re like everyone else in 2021 that has managed to survive the closures of the pandemic so far, you and your business are very overworked and understaffed. You have likely seen the “Now Hiring” signs outside of so many restaurants and eateries. There is probably one outside your own business. Most people thought that […]