Your management style can have a lot to do with your success in running a restaurant, or any other business. While people can debate all day long about which is the best management style to use in different situations, one thing people will agree on, if you get it right …
Read More »Restaurant Management Tips: The Art of Scheduling
The food service industry can be a brutal business, and sometimes the differences between making it and breaking are very, very thin. As the manager, you have a lot on your plate – from training and supervising employees to running budgets and purchasing new equipment and supplies. This series is …
Read More »Restaurant Management Tips: Be Like A Stock Broker
Running a successful, profitable restaurant is just like being a stock broker: you must diversify to minimize risk. This lesson is even more relevant today considering the current economic climate. So, you have a great concept, some popular menu items, and a decent dinner rush. Good. But your profit margins …
Read More »Better Sales Don’t Change Your Restaurant’s New Reality
Restaurants take heart: change seems to be coming. After two years of declining growth and slowing spending, it appears that consumers are finally going to spend more this holiday season, not less. A flock of reports have been circulating in the retail and food service worlds pointing to positive growth …
Read More »3 Reasons Food Prep Equipment Helps You Cut Costs & Improve Quality
There’s nothing quite as exciting as watching a busy restaurant’s kitchen gear up for the dinner rush. Every chef and restaurateur knows that thorough preparation is the only way to effectively combat the chaos that is a kitchen during peak dinner rush. And that’s why the kitchen starts prepping hours …
Read More »Bars and Restaurants Using Spotters To Increase Profits
A bar spotter, or “nightclub secret shopper,” is a person sent into a bar by the owner or manager to conduct a secret quality control review of bar staff. Spotters carefully observe bartenders and other employees, watching for telltale signs of theft and misconduct. Most spotters were once bartenders themselves, …
Read More »Use Twitter To Market Your Restaurant: 4 Strategies For Success
So, have you jumped on the Twitter bandwagon yet? Or are you sick and tired of hearing about tweets, tweeting, and all other variations of bird noises? Are you wondering what the heck I’m talking about? For those of you who answered “yes” to the last question, you’ve got some …
Read More »12 Restaurant Management Tips
One area of the restaurant industry we have continually focused on here at The Back Burner is management. I don’t have to tell you that restaurant managers are often overworked and under-appreciated, and that’s on top of the stress involved with trying to manage a business in one of the …
Read More »Don’t Take Coffee For Granted
Every restaurant serves coffee. It’s one of those standard beverages that any food service establishment takes for granted: restaurants of all kinds have always served coffee, and will continue to serve it forever. But unlike other standard beverages like Coke or Pepsi that are made by a third party, coffee …
Read More »Restaurant Management Tips: More Is Not Always Better
Large parties present a difficult choice for restaurant managers. How many times have parties of 12, 16, or even 20 shown up at your restaurant ready to experience the great food and service you have to offer? Your initial reaction is probably: “Great! We love more customers!” Of course you …
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