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8 Tips for Selling Merchandise at Your Coffee Shop

Lavu

Coffee shops have a unique customer base that stands and waits patiently (we hope) for their lattes—and not selling merchandise is a lost business opportunity. Those minutes could be spent checking out your café’s merchandise instead of idly scrolling through Instagram feeds. How to Merchandise a Café. Travel Mugs.

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Revenue streams restaurants can add to their business

Clover - Restaurants

Lastly, by offering additional services like catering or selling merchandise, restaurants can more efficiently use their existing kitchen space, staff, and inventory, maximizing their resources throughout the day or week. Merchandise Selling hats, tote bags, and t-shirts with your restaurant name has two benefits.

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The Top 5 Restaurant Inventory Management Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Restaurant365

With food costs running at approximately 30% or higher, learning importance of inventory management and how to prevent common mistakes is critical in successfully driving down costs and maximizing profits. First, let’s break down the two types of inventory costing, Actual and Theoretical. Theoretical Variance. Actual Food Cost (COGS).

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Leveraging Relationships to Build a Better Bar Program

Goliath Consulting

Every bar/beverage manager can tell you about their distributors purchase incentives. Your bar gets free product to try out different flavors or drop the price on name brand spirits, the distributor keeps their inventory fluid and product shipping. Want to stay on top of what’s new in the bar business?

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MRM Research Roundup: Year-End 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

While restaurants looked after frontline workers, diners lended their own efforts to support restaurants and their staff in 2020, offering donations, gift cards, tickets towards online classes and merchandise purchases. After the holidays, focus on inventory management improvements and keep inventory lean.

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Creating a restaurant website: Why it matters and how to nail it

Open for Business

Consider components like the navigation bar, home page sections, menu, press coverage, and photo galleries. Include new offerings on site Whether it’s promoting events or selling gift cards and merchandise, make sure to update your website with the latest happenings. Start simple and leave room to expand.

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How to keep your food business going during the COVID-19 / corona crisis

Deliverect

Governments all over the world have been ordering restaurants, bars and other food businesses to close up shop - until further notice. A creative way to do more business would be to sell recipes, ingredients and/or merchandise online. You could even provide ingredients or branded merchandise to be used with the recipe.