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Austin Breweries Serving up the Best Craft Beer

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Meanwhile Brewing has an incredible menu of over 20 rotating beers and ciders, wines, and even cocktails to choose from. Pueblo Viejo offers a variety of Mexican food, Distant Relatives serves up mouth-watering BBQ, and Dough Boys churns out fresh, wood-burned pizzas. Austin Beerworks serves up the typical pub fare at the Can-tina.

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15 Restaurant Metrics to Know and How To Use Them

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Ideal menu price. To put it simply, your cost of goods sold is how much it costs you to produce a menu item. As you add together all of your menu items, you can determine the total cost of everything (to you) that you sell to your guests. It also plays a key factor in pricing your menu. Average customer headcount.

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The Six Most Common Franchise Problems (And How to Solve Them)

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Nearly 200,000 quick-serve restaurant establishments in the United States are not owned by the company whose name is on the building. Corporate typically does all of the marketing and menu engineering , comes up with training processes, and works out deals with suppliers for better food prices. coli after eating at Chipotle.

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Investing In Digital Technology Is Investing in Food Safety

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Today’s modern restaurant operators face challenges that no other generation has faced, thanks to COVID-19 closures, supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, menu labeling, and food safety challenges. It is the industry's primary responsibility to be sure the food they sell and serve to consumers is safe.

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How Restaurant Dessert Menus Shaped Our Sweet Tooth

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His legendary “tabletop dessert,” which is still on the Alinea menu today, involves a slew of elements — sauces and gelees, glitter made from strawberries, and sleek chocolate orbs — artfully swished and swooped all over the table right before diners’ eyes. It quickly expanded across the U.S.,

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Denver Brunch Spots You Don’t Want To Miss

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Their creative menu has options for sweet and savory – and even a mix of both. Brunch in an Atomic Cowboy Bar was an exciting treat and entirely on par with the eclectic menu. Bar Dough in Highland Park is a rustic Italian restaurant that serves pizzas and pasta. The menu is equally impressive. Order Online.

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Simple Customer Retention Strategy for Restaurants

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The coffee shop where the baristas seem happy to serve you. A 2015 study found that nearly 70% of customers don’t return to a restaurant after their first visit, putting the average restaurant customer retention rate at about 30%. Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name. Why is customer retention important?