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TWENTY COMMON MISTAKES INDEPENDENT RESTAURATEURS MAKE

Culinary Cues

Every business requires controls in pricing, consistency, quality, and cash handling. All of the tools are available for inventory control, purchasing systems, cash handling, costing templates, and quality assessment. Social media is very inexpensive, but someone needs to effectively manage it every day and every way.

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How to build a restaurant leadership team

Clover - Restaurants

Most great restaurants need great restaurant managers. These employees are generally entrusted to mitigate customer complaints, create shift schedules, handle cash drawers and bank deposits, help employees navigate interpersonal conflicts, and even hire employees on behalf of ownership. The question is, how do you find a good one?

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Guest blog: 7 Essential Reasons Why Your Restaurant Needs an Online Ordering System

Restaurant365

Why is it important to have an in-house online ordering system ? Here are seven essential reasons why your restaurant needs an in-house online ordering system. In-house online ordering systems capture customer data for your customer relationship management system (CRM). Drives More Revenue. Consumers Expect It.

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LESSONS GIVEN – LESSONS LEARNED

Culinary Cues

Four-page menus do not reflect business common sense – inventories become unmanageable, waste is much more difficult to manage, the level of expertise required of employees grows exponentially, consistency and quality are challenging, and profit is hard to predict and realize. What if……happens? How will we react?”

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Essentials of Payroll Accounting for Restaurant Groups, Part 1

Restaurant365

This two-part blog series presents an overall guide to the essentials of payroll accounting for restaurant groups. Your restaurant orders, receives, and counts food all in one system: your inventory management software. Your inventory management solution measures and stores all the information you need about your food cost.

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Meet the Villains Part One: The Busywork Beast

Hot Schedules

They take the form of wasted time, effort and cash, and cause havoc and frustration for your employees and guests alike. The Busywork Beast has the power to trap your managers in its Back-office Lair. Luckily, there are ways to transform your general managers into superheroes. You’re not the first to meet this foe.

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3 Benefits to Using Bill Pay with Your Restaurant Management System

Margin Edge

There are three primary ways for restaurants to pay their bills: manually writing checks (stuffing, licking, stamping envelopes, and taking them to the post office), using credit cards or digital banking, and lastly using a third-party provider like Bill.com, QuickBooks, or your restaurant management system (RSM). Kind of like kombucha.