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 […]
Why You Shouldn’t Use a PDF Menu on Your Restaurant Website
You’ve put a lot of effort into designing the perfect menu to hand to your guests once they’re seated. It’s appetizing and reflects your restaurant very well. You want people visiting your website to see it, too, so you post that brilliant PDF file right on your site. Anyone who clicks “menu” will be taken […]
What They Didn’t Tell You About Running a Restaurant
It is surprising how many people would like to run their own restaurant. It’s slightly less surprising that so few of them actually follow through on that dream (to be fair, statistically, the number of people who wanted to be astronauts when they were kids that actually became astronauts is also quite low), since starting […]
8 Tips for Using Facebook For Your Restaurant
Facebook is the most widely popular social media platform throughout the world. It’s rare to come across someone that hasn’t used it and/or doesn’t know what it is. Of course, each social media platform has different pros and cons and can reach a different audience, but Facebook is the most widely used. As such, it […]
5 Tips for Posting on Instagram
No matter who you are, where you’re from, or what kind of restaurant you’re running, you’ve probably had to face the facts: social media is not going away, and not only that, it’s a huge part of running a business in this century. Maybe you felt like you could skirt the issue without addressing it, […]