QR Codes: Does Your Restaurant Need One? Regardless of what industry you’re in, participation in mobile advertising is becoming necessary to remain competitive with today’s smart phone technology. QR codes [quick response codes] are one way restaurant owners can quickly spread the word about their services, promotions and news. What is a QR Code? A [...]
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Join the Conversation: Managing Your Restaurant’s Online Reputation
In the fast paced world of write-what-you-will-when-you-want internet blogging, reviewing, and all around tom-foolery, you’re able to find varying opinions on just about anything. From bashing faulty restaurant equipment to condemning an establishment’s service, it would seem that opinion makers particularly enjoy targeting the restaurant world. Inhabiting an industry that’s so inherently subjective, restaurant owners [...]

Instagram: A Social Media Must For Foodservice
Isn’t it ironic, after years of striving for flawless, lifelike images of the highest achievable resolution, people are still drawn back to vintage photographs with light-leaked softness? There is just something about the tones and hues of the snapshots that add character and personality to even the most ordinary day-to-day events in life. That is [...]

Followerwonk: Why it’s Great For Your Restaurant
Followerwonk is like a pet gopher. This mega tool digs deep into your Twitter data and reveals everything you could ever care to know about your Twitter world. Use it to track your follower gains and losses, compare Twitter accounts, do global searches in Twitter bios, and analyze any account’s followers! Soon enough, this tool [...]

6 Key Elements that Make a Strong Brand
When you hear the word brand, what do you think of? Maybe BMW or Google comes to mind. Others may envision Wal-Mart or Coca-Cola. People all over the world would recognize these brands after just a glimpse and immediately associate it with past experiences. For BMW many people think of luxury and fine automobiles; while [...]

Eat Responsibly: Support Ethical Treatment of Restaurant Employees
Several different factors can help market a restaurant to the public. Quality ingredients, good service and of course tasty food are the first to come to mind. Other standards must be met or exceeded to maintain a good public image. These are factors like food safety and ethical employee treatment. Failure to meet expectations in [...]

10 Restaurant Marketing Tips That Will Crank Up Your Revenue
After a year of dedicated blogging on The Back Burner, I took a minute to reflect recently about where the food service industry has been and where it’s going in 2010. That reflection got me thinking: after a year and 350+ posts, what were the 10 simplest, most effective ways for a restaurant to boost [...]
8 Restaurant Marketing Tips
In these tough times, restaurants can use all the free marketing they can get. If a pricey restaurant marketing consultant is not in your budget, read on to discover ways to get your eatery in the customers’ minds, without spending a dime. 1. Talk to your customers. Ask how they found you. If it’s not [...]

Why Fast Food Lunch Is Good For Your Restaurant
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 hour. [...]
Restaurant Marketing: The Hunting Season Is Over
So, your sales are down and you decide to send out a direct mail piece into your zip code, expecting your usual response of 2 to 3%. I’ll bet you’ve never ever thought about those other 98% in the zip code who never responded to your offer. You see, they just threw it in the [...]
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Fixing Commercial Fryers
April 23, 2012
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A Glossary of Restaurant Lingo, Slang & Terms
March 19, 2012
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Fixing Commercial Oven Problems
July 3, 2011
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Troubleshooting Gas Range and Oven Problems
November 19, 2011
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Fixing Gas Ranges
July 23, 2011
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Suspended Coffee – Dream Big. Start Small.
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Amy’s Baking Company: What a Disaster
June 14, 2013
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Cleaning Underneath Restaurant Kitchen Equipment is Easy With Stoveshoes
June 10, 2013
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7 Tips for Printing Restaurant Menus
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Frozen Drink Dispenser Recipes from Bunn
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