There are many aspects that affect your business’s profitability, but is your menu letting you down? With restaurants being put under increasing pressure during the pandemic, it’s vital that you regularly assess your menu and follow best practices. After all, your menu is the main way that communicates your dish options to customers, and poor…
The pandemic has been difficult for the hospitality industry. Now that restaurants are re-opening there’s an opportunity to go “back to basics” and revamp their operation for operating in a post-pandemic world. Businesses are choosing to go back to basics — to strip down their offerings and services to the essentials. This is a chance…
Preparing your restaurant for opening after lockdown is necessarily fraught with concerns. How do you best keep your customers and employees safe in a Covid-19 world? How do you access the latest industry recommendations to ensure you’re in compliance? What are the risks you’re still facing in your geographic location? With a careful plan in…
Each new year provides a new opportunity to dive headfirst into a new set of strategic plans for your restaurant. What can you do to make your establishment truly stand out in a notoriously competitive industry? Here are 20 simple tips to make this year a good one for your restaurant: 1) Embrace Delivery According…
In the fast pace world of electronic menus, Instagram pictures and YouTube videos the days of “trade secrets” and massive differentials are a thing of the past. Yet, despite that, some restaurants and outlets are thriving while others continue to struggle. If you can’t patent a recipe or a style and you certainly can’t patent…
If you’re old enough to remember when the only options for food delivery were pizza or Chinese food, you’ve witnessed the way that technology has impacted the restaurant industry. Eating a restaurant meal used to mean actually eating in a restaurant, however, this has changed with the widespread adoption of on-demand delivery companies like Uber…
Is disruption about to reshape the restaurant industry? Firstly, let’s understand what we mean by “disruption”. It’s not simply doing it better, it’s not doing new things, it’s doing and making things that make the old way obsolete. Mr D and Uber have not disrupted the delivery service, they have made it so much better…
You don’t have to be a quick-service restaurant or have a large kitchen team to enjoy the big value that a restaurant kitchen display system brings. In fact, restaurants of all types and sizes can benefit from the advantages that kitchen display systems offer. Technology has become a driving force of innovation, motivating businesses in…
A sad truth of the food service or hospitality industry is that shrinkage is universal. No matter how small or large the business, some degree of shrinkage affects profitability. This may be due to waste, unintentionally providing customers with more food than they have paid for, or even employee theft. While the first is inevitable…