Starting a Restaurant Begins with a Lease
If you have the entrepreneurial bug and decided to start your own restaurant, you have found out that it begins with a location. You know the success of your operation may depend on that perfect spot for your brainchild. Don’t get blinded by ambition and magnificent food dreams and do something crazy like signing a [...]
Buying Restaurant Equipment - Restaurant Management Tips
Nothing is more frustrating in the operation of a restaurant than a piece of equipment that breaks down. Of course, equipment only falters during your rush on Friday night and just before the weekend when repairs are hard to arrange. Besides the operational and customer service issues, time spent working on equipment, securing repairs and [...]
The Problem with Problems – Restaurant Management
In one of our restaurants a Floor Manager comes to me and states, “We have a problem. The servers are not selling appetizers and desserts like they should”. Abandoning my “savior” complex that many owners have, I quickly responded, “Are you asking for help to solve YOUR problem”? The Manager, not used to me quickly [...]
Restaurant Owners Need to Check Beverages for Profits
It’s clear that 2008 will chew at the bottom line for independent and chain restaurants alike. Both have one category of products on the menu that are still high margin and should not be ignored for squeezing that last dime from every item in your system. Beverages present opportunities to boost your P&L.
For operators that [...]
Menus are Your Sales Tool
Let’s make a couple of assumptions. First, you may have the best servers in the business. If you do, then you know they get very busy on occasion and don’t do the best job of selling your product. Second, your menu is seen by many people before they ever see a server. You may have [...]
