Three Tips to Improve Your Online Reputation
It has never been more important to have a positive online presence than it is now. People are statistically likely to look up your business online before visiting, sometimes even if they’re regulars. They’re checking menu items, ordering, and hours of operation. For potential customers, they’re also checking to see if other people think your […]
4 Tips to Create Successful Restaurant Marketing Lists
It doesn’t take an expert to tell you that it’s best to market to people who are interested in whatever you’re offering. Maybe you already have a list of people’s email addresses, phone numbers, or physical addresses for sending promotions. If you do, it can be very tempting to send out an ad about your […]
Text Message Marketing – Is It Good or Bad?
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Why Real Growth is Crucial For Your Restaurant
Opening a restaurant isn’t the easiest task in the world. But even after you’ve overcome the initial challenges of finding investors and/or raising capital, getting a suitable location and equipment, having the right staff, creating a menu, getting suppliers, plus the other million little things you need to handle before opening your doors, there is […]
What are the 5 Promotional Strategies
When you’re trying to spread the word about your restaurant, sometimes it can be hard trying to decide which strategies to employ and when. In business promotion, there are 5 common strategies for doing this. Advertising Getting the word out about your restaurant is crucial. It’s the first step to making sure you have customers […]
Where Restaurants Will Be in 10 Years
Over the last few years, there have been many changes in the restaurant industry. The pandemic has seen many restaurants shut down, new types of restaurants open, and everyone try to adjust for new policies, demands, procedures, restrictions and lifestyles. If someone had asked you 10 years ago where we’d be in 2022, you likely […]
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 […]