Every to go container, every disposable cup, and every plastic fork your restaurant uses ends up in a landfill somewhere. Over the course of a year that adds up to millions of tons of trash from all the restaurants in the United States. For most restaurants, these disposable items are …
Read More »The Quick Guide to Commercial Refrigeration Problems
Commercial refrigeration is key to the success of any restaurant and keeping your units properly running can save you both time and money. Whether your commercial refrigerator won’t stop running when you want it to or simply won’t run at all, this quick guide will help you to troubleshoot all …
Read More »50 Restaurant Resolutions For A Successful Year
If ever there was a good time to make some positive changes to your restaurant’s operation, now is that time. The time to kick things up a notch and really go after more business. If you’re going to beat out the competition then you need to trim down, work harder, …
Read More »New Super Fast Pathogen Tester Could Change Food Safety
It seems like every year there are a growing number of food product recalls in response to outbreaks of illness caused by nasty bacteria like E. coli and salmonella. In 2010 we had outbreaks in lettuce, tomatoes, and alfalfa sprouts that sickened hundreds of people. In fact, there are 48 …
Read More »Huge Money Saver Or Needless Middle Man? KlickKitchen Offers Online Ordering For Chefs
The website KlickKitchen allows chefs to source food products for their restaurant or commercial kitchen exclusively through the web. Vendors upload their food products and restaurants log in and order what they need from the website’s catalog of foodstuffs. The site is the creation of Jordan Glaser, formerly of the …
Read More »4 Steps To Managing Your Reputation Online
Everyone’s got an opinion. And in the internet age, everyone can and does voice their opinion online. A short search online will bring back at least one person’s opinion about every kind of business under the sun, from eye doctors to painters. Restaurants are particularly targeted by the masses of …
Read More »When Will The Restaurant Industry Finally Get Labor Right?
It was taken as a good sign recently when the Nation’s Restaurant News reported that employee turnover in the restaurant industry was on the rise for the first quarter of 2011. This means more jobs are being created and more vacancies need to be filled in the restaurant business than …
Read More »Why Restaurants That Offer Discounts Dominate Top U.S. Brand Rankings
There has been much discussion about discounting in the restaurant business over the past few years. Many in the industry worried that serial discounting would forever cheapen their brand and condition customers to be coupon hunters rather than loyal patrons. That’s why it was interesting to see the results of …
Read More »How To Turn Coupons Into Restaurant Marketing Opportunities
Despite the fact that a majority of restaurateurs view discount sites like Groupon as the biggest threat to their business, and despite a lot of talk in the restaurant industry about how discounts devalue a restaurant’s brand, new market research reveals that coupons and deep discounts are probably here to …
Read More »Improve Restaurant Sales And Brand Recognition At Food Festivals
Summer food festivals have been a fixture in American culture for years. From the Taste of Chicago to the Alabama Crawfish Festival , food festivals large and small have kept growing and expanding, even through recent economic turbulence. Tens of thousands of restaurants participate in these festivals across the country. …
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