Controlling Costs
Restaurant Survival – Mom & Pop Restaurants, Heart of America – One Year Later!
Author’s Note – One of the most difficult things to do is to find fresh content for a blog. Many current topics are hashed over on every restaurant blog and become boring. The article below was written one year ago during the first week of October. As I re-read the words, the relevancy and impact [...]
Cut Restaurant Costs – Trash Cans Tell the Story
Don’t worry, you won’t set a new fashion trend, but don a pair of rubber gloves, dishwasher’s apron, the oldest clothes you have and those old tennis shoes you were going to throw out. Now start digging in every trash can, bag, garbage can and any other waste container inside or outside your building. What [...]
Don’t Buy a Dream if You Can’t Afford a Nightmare
New Restaurant Owner Almost Gives Up
A guest at a table wanted to say hello. I visited the customer just before the lunch hour at one of our restaurants. My instincts immediately told me he wanted more than a casual greeting. He wanted to talk. The customer was no stranger. He visits regularly and owns a [...]
Restaurant Lessons from a Recession (Part One)
History is a teacher. The lessons we learn are supposed to help us be more prepared, avoid mistakes and correct our paths into the future to lessen the chance of a repeat historical calamity. Hopefully, we won’t see this financial crisis, dubbed a recession, again, but if we do, here are some notes to remember.
The [...]
Destination Designation – Not Performing in Economic Downturn
Many high end food operations previously positioning themselves as “destination” restaurants are getting hit hard in this recession. Almost every segment of the food service world has been affected in one way or another, but double digit declines for the special occasion operations are the norm. The same store sales decline is on top of [...]
