Tweet A good gas range is the center and the soul of a restaurant or commercial kitchen, and every kitchen is different. Choosing the best unit to suit your specific needs can be a challenge, but if you keep a couple things in mind buying the range you need shouldn’t be hard. BTUs and Gas [...]
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Why Fast Food Lunch Is Good For Your Restaurant
Tweet One restaurant that has been doing just fine during the economic downturn is McDonald’s. Their combination of convenience and affordability has made the golden arches the restaurant of choice in tough times. As consumers become more and more health and value conscious, restaurants have an inherent advantage over fast food chains during the lunch [...]
Local Produce: A Fresh Marketing Approach
Tweet Fresh. Organic. High-quality. These are a few ideas associated with local produce. They are also three reasons why your restaurant should invest in the local food movement today. Not only will you improve your ingredients but you will also communicate that your restaurant supports the surrounding community and is aware of what diners want. [...]
How to Wage War on Water Orders
Tweet Now is the time for your restaurant to take a stand. The war on tap water is steadily spiraling out of control. You may have lost the battle but the war can still be won. Whether it’s their growing waistlines, shrinking budgets, or a combination of the two, restaurant diners are ordering more tap [...]
Scheduling Your Way to High Customer Praise
Tweet In order to survive (and thrive!) in a dynamic and fast-changing industry, food and beverage businesses need tools and services that help with management and scheduling to make the day-to-day and overall business run smoothly and efficiently. Whether you have a fairly regular schedule, or your business runs on irregular events, effective staff scheduling [...]
Efficient Restaurant Tips: Manage Equipment (continued)
Tweet Here are some more tips on how to make sure your restaurant equipment is performing at maximum efficiency. Perform regular equipment maintenance. Simple parts on cooking and refrigeration equipment break down or degrade over time from constant use, reducing energy efficiency and equipment performance. Usually these parts are so easy to replace you can [...]
Restaurant Marketing: Your Focus Shouldn’t Be On Social Media
Tweet I arrived in Madison, Wisconsin last week to do a restaurant marketing workshop for Sysco and was looking for a place to eat. Obviously in a strange town and no one around to make recommendations, I pulled out my trusty iPhone and downloaded the Yelp app. Immediately, I got hundreds of restaurants with thousands [...]
How To Sell Your Restaurant
Tweet The time to sell your restaurant may come for many reasons. Whatever the motives are behind this difficult decision, the process of selling your establishment needs to be handled carefully to make sure you get the right price at the right time. Achieving that is often the result of a long, tedious process, with [...]
Food Safety At Turley’s Part 2: Staff Training
Tweet Earlier this week I ventured to get a feel for practical food safety practices in a real restaurant. Turley’s, an iconic Boulder, CO eatery known for its eclectic menu full of healthy eating and fantastic international flavors, was kind enough to spend some time talking to me about their food safety program. I sat [...]
Restaurant Management Tips: How To Deal With Employee Theft
Tweet As anyone in the food service industry knows, staff turnover is a constant problem. Hiring and training employees is important but often tedious work, and keeping your team motivated and happy can also be a challenge. Yet these “human resources” tasks are not nearly as tough to deal with as employee theft. An employee [...]
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