Printing your menus may be the final step, but don’t let it be an afterthought. Once you’ve invested in a branded design that’s engineered for success, you’ll want to see that quality carried through to the finished product. Visually appealing menus generate more sales, so follow these simple tips to maximize your menu’s payoff. 1. [...]
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Can’t Eat Here: Is Your Restaurant Sending the Right Message to Guests With Dietary Restrictions?
Imagine sitting down at a restaurant and being met with disgust when you question a menu item; unfortunately, that’s what a lot of people with dietary restrictions are being met with when they dine out. The message here isn’t that every restaurant is this way, but rather that you should think about how your restaurant [...]

Menu Calorie Count Debate
Suns out, guns out – beach bods unite! Now, more than ever, guests are noticing their calorie intake and diet rituals because swimsuit season is right around the corner. But do menu calorie counts truly affect consumer eating habits while dining out? Menu Calorie Count Law According to the FDA, menu calorie counts will soon [...]

Too Dim or Not Too Dim: Sound Off On Restaurant Lighting
As we sat at West Flanders Brewing Company enjoying some of their delicious brews for happy hour, the lights suddenly went dim. At first it was hard to focus on small things, like the menu and details on people’s faces, especially distant ones. This wasn’t anything new to any of us – restaurants dim the [...]

Ice, Ice Baby – Why Are There So Many Different Types of Ice?
Ice is like origami paper. Okay not really, but it can be made into many different shapes and forms. Each shape has a purpose and is ideal for specific needs due to size, melting time, etc. All commercial ice machine brands manufacturer cube, nugget and flake style ice, but some have patented forms too. Cube [...]

Servers & Customers Unite: Your Biggest Restaurant Frustrations
It’s inevitable, people love to complain. They love to complain about the weather, their hair, their weight, etc. Well, let me be your punching bag! In fact, I would love to hear your complaints. I am going to do my best to inform restaurateurs how to create a better atmosphere for everyone in the FOH. [...]

Awesome Fried Foods & The Restaurants That Serve Them
The last post I wrote was on healthy oils, which I would hope anyone that ventures out for a deep fried meal would look into. As soon as you start talking about deep frying, people begin telling you the crazy things they’ve eaten that’s been covered in batter and cooked in oil to perfection. I’ve [...]

FOH vs. BOH: 12 Tips to Ease Tension
Oh the woes of being a server: the fast paced rush, the kitchen yelling at you for what your customers have ordered, the table of people that are mean to you and make you want to cry and the co-worker who is always telling you how to do things better! It seems the woes never [...]

Conserve & Control: Portioning Out Your Precious Resources
Picture your next outing to a new restaurant or eatery. Mouths watering, you and your dinner companions order the same large entrees based on similar tastes and growling stomachs. As your succulent steaks make their way to the table, you notice your friend to the left has a small spoonful of potatoes overshadowed by an [...]

6 Ways to Cook a Turkey
In 1621, Pilgrims dressed in black and white with buckled shoes and hats atop their heads in the Plymouth Colony to celebrate their first harvest. They invited the Wampanoag Indians and everyone gobbled down turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie. That’s the story you probably learned as a young child. Well, it turns out [...]
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