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2024 Emergency Planning for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

How to Better Ensure You Won’t Need Your Fire Extinguisher The best response is to prevent a fire before it starts by updating and cleaning your kitchen equipment, ensuring rags and smoking materials are disposed of properly, investing in Class K extinguishers and finally 86ing flaming shots. This article is not a template.

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IT’S TIME FOR RESTAURANTS TO PLANT THE SEEDS AND HARVEST THE TALENT

Culinary Cues

This is defined in articles from local newspapers to the New York Times, from industry magazines and websites to social media, and from industry blogs to podcasts by the dozens – everyone states the problem, points a finger, and portrays the issue as someone else’s doing. So, what might the cause be?

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THE BEST PATH TO CHEFDOM

Culinary Cues

Each of those “departments” will require some level of unique kitchen management (sous chef) and specialists to support the uniqueness of function. As long as the checkbook has a credit balance they are in good shape (until predictable sales slump and cash flow turns the corner).

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The Ultimate Guide to Getting a Restaurant Business Loan

7 Shifts

It also requires money to open a restaurant and build it out, buy equipment and finance the operation until it reaches break-even. In this article, you'll learn how to get a business loan for your restaurant so you can make your dream of starting or growing your restaurant a reality. Find other business plan resources from GrowThink.

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How to Drastically Cut Expenses in Your Restaurant (and Stay Profitable During COVID-19)

7 Shifts

Please note thought: this article is meant to provide information only and is not a substitute for any professional advice you may receive from an accountant, lawyer, HR, or other professional. Download all the data from your restaurant POS or back-office management platform to get a sense of how your restaurant is operating today.

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How Dark Kitchen Businesses Can Recoup Their Start-Up Costs and Reach Break-Even Faster

The Restaurant Times

With less capital expenditure, low initial setup costs, minimal staff, and equipment requirements, the dynamics of dark kitchens are more favorable than a dine-in facility. With the help of the strategies and tips mentioned in this article, a stable dark kitchen business can quickly reach operating break-even and generate profits. .

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Understanding the co-operative model in Kenya’s coffee sector

Perfect Daily Grind

You may also like our article on how micro-cooperatives are transforming the Kenyan coffee trade. Many of these co-ops are well-managed and add value to coffee in a number of ways, including through quality control, packaging, and even domestic sales in some cases. Mr. Gathura is a retired wet mill manager from Kenya.