How to Promote Sales at Your Restaurant
You’ve decided to have a sale, special, or promotion at your restaurant. If you’re new to the business, you may not yet be sure what the best way is to get the word out. Of course, ideally, once you have established your business, you’ll know your customers generally and already be aware of the best […]
How to Avoid Sacrificing Quality in Your Restaurant
If you get too caught up in the bureaucracy of running a restaurant, it’s easy to lose sight of the authenticity and quality of the food. As your business expands, you might find yourself cutting corners to make food faster so you can feed all of your guests in a timely manner. If this is […]
Phone Etiquette At Your Restaurant
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Best Phone Systems for Small Restaurants – What Do You REALLY Need?
Once you’ve gotten your restaurant off the ground and running, you need to think about some logistics. The phone is essential, even though we don’t love it. It interrupts us and is a constant distraction, taking us away from what we’d like to be doing. However, it is one of the main points of contact […]
How to Gain More Customers in a Small Business
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Templates for Text Messages for Your Restaurant
Having trouble deciding what to put in a text message you’re sending to customers? It can be difficult. You need to walk a fine line between too casual and too impersonal. Not long ago, it was thought that any use of emojis would send the wrong, immature message. Now, however, even emails from most companies […]
7 Tips to Reduce Stress As A Restaurant Owner
Here’s the thing about owning your own restaurant – you don’t get to spend the day out at the golf course, raking in the money. You’re not sleeping in or showing up whenever you finally feel like it. It’s possible to do that as an owner of some businesses, but a restaurant is not one […]
Common Restaurant Problems in 2022
Restaurants have been hit hard by the pandemic. From total closures that stopped all revenue in its tracks to staffing issues and everything in between, operating a restaurant today is difficult. This, of course, is not indicative of how long a restaurant has been operating; long-lived favorites have just as many problems as brand new […]
Start 2022 Off Right with a SWOT Analysis
The new year is a perfect time to perform an analysis on your business and find out where you can improve as well as what you’re already doing well. You can do this with a SWOT analysis. SWOT stands for strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat. Any business can benefit from this kind of analysis. Strengths […]
How to Keep Customers Engaged Even When You Aren’t Interacting With Them Directly
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