The Restaurant Group

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Introducing new menu items is more than just adding dishes to your offerings—it’s about crafting an experience that captivates your guests and keeps them coming back for more. A well-planned new menu launch not only boosts customer engagement but also reinforces your restaurant’s brand identity.

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The Restaurant Group

MAY 31, 2025

These emails include promotions, menu updates, special events, feedback requests, and loyalty program details, serving as a direct communication line to keep your restaurant prominent in customers’ minds. Promote Special Deals Emails effectively announce limited-time promotions and discounts.

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Clover - Restaurants

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Below are key strategies to help improve your happy hour menu and boost sales. With the right information, you can improve your happy hour drink specials to match your customers preferenceswhether they prefer craft cocktails, local beers, or classic bar drinks. Create a unique cocktail menu that changes seasonally.

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The Restaurant Group

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Menu Optimization for Waste Reduction A thoughtful menu design can minimize waste while offering dishes that excite customers. Designing a Waste-Conscious Menu Feature Versatile Ingredients : Use items that work across multiple dishes. Plan Around Availability : Design your menu with readily available ingredients.

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Lavu

JUNE 6, 2025

Choose Cost-Effective Ingredients to Reduce Menu Costs and Boost Profit You can look for cheaper alternatives to expensive ingredients without compromising taste. One effective way to achieve this is by using cost-effective ingredients in your menu items. One effective way to do this is by offering specials on slow-moving inventory.

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Paper Chase Accountancy

JULY 2, 2025

This blog offers a comprehensive checklist of monthly restaurant accounting activities, invaluable tax preparation advice, and expert tips to streamline your reporting with the indispensable support of bookkeeping and accounting services. It transforms tax season from a frantic scramble into a smooth, orderly process.

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The Restaurant Group

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Understanding the Impact of Social Media on Restaurants Benefits of Social Media Marketing for Restaurants Increased Reservations and Orders Platforms like Instagram and Facebook help highlight your menu. Enhanced Visibility for Special Offers Social media allows you to spread the word about promotions.

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The Restaurant Group

APRIL 18, 2025

Expert Restaurant Accountants Experienced restaurant accounting specialists will also help navigate menu oversight, third-party fees, and split checks. Popular Restaurant Accounting Tools Popular tools include QuickBooks, Xero, and specialized restaurant accounting software that offer features like payroll processing and inventory tracking.

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The Restaurant Group

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Understanding your audience helps in crafting a menu and ambiance that resonates with them. Provide Time-Limited Offers Encourage visits during off-peak hours with special deals. Happy hours, lunch specials, or early bird discounts can fill seats that might otherwise remain empty.

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Paper Chase Accountancy

MAY 21, 2025

They require specialized support that understands the intricacies of fluctuating revenues, high labor costs, and complex inventory management. Grasp why specialized hospitality accountancy is not just an advantage, but a necessity, over general accounting practices. Learn more about our Accounting Services !

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Restaurant Engine

MAY 28, 2025

Get your customers excited for your new menu with a strong marketing plan. Are you expanding your menu at your restaurant? Introducing new menu items is a great idea because it keeps your restaurant fresh and competitive in an ever-growing industry. These tips can help you do just that.

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Chowly

JUNE 12, 2025

That’s where they check your hours, photos, reviews, and menu to decide if you're worth the stop. Your guests use it to: Navigate to your location Confirm hours Check reviews Browse your menu Place orders directly All of this happens before they even visit your website. Most diners don’t start on your website, they start on Maps.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 25, 2024

This is especially true during the holiday season when cooks, chefs, and all-important folks who work in restaurants and other service industries, put their own families aside so that we might enjoy special times of the year. So, God made a chef.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 10, 2021

While your restaurant may feature a diverse menu, delicious food, a great ambiance, and excellent customer service, you will still struggle to build a customer base without promoting it. Others tend to emphasize their cheaper menu options. A quick look at your POS data will identify the top three selling items on your menu.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 18, 2021

While there are clear benefits to an all-digital menu system, to get the most out them, you must first take a step back to re-examine what your menu means to you. Your menu: Part love letter, part manifesto, instructions for use and a bill of goods, all rolled into one. Should your menu move to the cloud?

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 28, 2021

There is something very special about working in a professional kitchen, something that is hard to explain unless you are there. When you sit down with the sommelier with your first menu as chef you can offer reasonable comments on the selection of wines to accompany each item. This is magical. PLAN BETTER – TRAIN HARDER.

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Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Here are some thoughts: PRODUCT: Take a hard look at your menu. Ah…now this is where a well-seasoned, talented chef can help to save the day. Assign the task to your chef to create a menu that is exciting, innovative, delicious, accessible, and financially tolerable. Reverse engineer your menu from this perspective.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 1, 2019

In preparation for the holiday gift giving season it was somehow decided that it was appropriate to recognize those private businesses within your community by stopping in to say hello, thank them for all that they do, and spend a little money. Every year, this weekend is the official time to celebrate small businesses.

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Culinary Cues

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A Blue-Plate Special was a hearty meal that always included meat, potatoes, a vegetable, bread and butter, and ample amounts of coffee. A Blue-Plate Special was a hearty meal that always included meat, potatoes, a vegetable, bread and butter, and ample amounts of coffee. No one ever left the restaurant still hungry.

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7 Shifts

JULY 10, 2020

Stay tuned for a few special tips from Melissa Bensky, one of Toronto’s most prolific foodgrammers with her account, @tastethesix. Pssst, if this is your first opening, check out our blog on How to Start a Restaurant! ] Additionally, by keeping the menu to a limited number of dishes, you can better plan and manage your food costs.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 16, 2022

But then, on occasion, there are those nights when you and your teammates are in a special place, a place that is hard to describe unless you have been there – you are in the zone. She had to handle eight different menu items on those cherry red flat tops and high BTU burners and called out orders to each station on slower nights.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2022

Thus, in this blog, we discuss how restaurants are overhauling and redesigning their business models to attract vegan customers? The restaurant’s five course vegetarian menu releases 800 gms of carbon dioxide which is eight times lesser than a traditional gourmet. Reduction of Carbon Emission Through Vegan Food.

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7 Shifts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A resume for a cook or chef job should include familiarity with and specific experience in the following areas, if applicable: Food prep of specific menu items. Cooking specific menu items. Menu item creation and menu building. If you work in a full-service restaurant, you often have to remember daily and weekly specials.

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7 Shifts

JULY 24, 2020

That’s why our teams—who specifically work to improve restaurant operations, performance, and staff happiness—have curated a 7-course menu of the best books about understanding restaurant management. So pull up a chair and take a deep dive into some of the most insightful and actionable tips from the best in the business. Goodreads: 3.85

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7 Shifts

MARCH 16, 2022

If a staff member is going through a messy break-up or is in the thick of exam season, encourage as harmonious a work-life balance as possible. Take note of employees who demonstrate initiative, integrity, or management potential and present them with special projects, training responsibilities, and other developmental opportunities.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

But we’re also in the languid depths of the season’s end, so if you, like us, are trying to maximize the deliciousness and minimize the stress of entertaining, look no further. I found this recipe years ago on a now-defunct cooking blog called Jan’s Sushi Bar, but it’s easy enough to duplicate and tweak. Jaya Saxena, staff writer.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 9, 2020

With its delicious burgers and fresh proteins chargrilled over an open flame, The Habit Burger Grill offers consumers a diverse, California-style menu with premium ingredients at a Q.S.R.-like “We truly believe in forming our menu around as many high-quality, local ingredients as we can and look forward to doing so in Austin.”

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7 Shifts

JANUARY 31, 2024

One other way you may need to manage inventory is with menu planning. Some restaurant managers work directly with the chef to plan menu item selection or daily specials. If this applies to you, you'll want to make sure that menu items are enticing, well-portioned, and profitable.

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7 Shifts

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

For example, your ideal customers could be: Young families that want a kid's menu, great drinks, and to get home before 8. Knowing they have a lunch special on Wednesdays is invaluable knowledge and can inform your decision-making. This is where special offers, newsletters, and SMS marketing can come in handy. Repeat Customers.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 1, 2023

There are times when a nod, closed eyes, and smile signified just how delicious a nightly special was – a dish prepared by a cook, from his or her heart. There are more stories than words to write, more memorable moments and instances when I simply shrugged knowing that this kitchen is a special place.

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EATER

JULY 8, 2020

Where to Eat: An homage to the ultimate road-tripper, Kerouac’s Restaurant is a seasonal restaurant open May through October at the Stargazer Inn in Baker. The menu reads like a hit list of American comfort classics, sure to satisfy after a long drive or a long hike.

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Notch

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Happy hour Happy hour specials are a classic restaurant promotion designed to bring in the after-work crowd. But does running these specials actually result in an upsell? Off-peak specials Most restaurants experience a lull in the hour or two before dinner service begins. It’s a classic promotion. Found a successful formula?

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7 Shifts

JUNE 16, 2024

Giving them incentives for being loyal patrons of your establishment makes customers feel appreciated and, in a sense, special, as there are perks and discounts that only they can get access to. Some uses for a poster include promoting a new item on your menu, hosting an event, or offering a "buy one, take one" promotion.

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The Rail

JULY 5, 2024

All aspects of restaurant administration, including menu optimization , cost control, and revenue maximization, are critical to your bottom line. This blog will explore essential restaurant management tips that will help you enhance profitability and drive success in the competitive food service industry.

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Bingage

JULY 21, 2022

And when it comes to the festival season, you can’t afford to be complacent. Your staff should know what special dishes are being offered and when they’ll be served (or else they might not show up) so that employees can plan accordingly. People usually dine out on special days to make the day special.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 19, 2022

“Two minutes to plate”, called out Duke as Sabrina immediately switched gears, pulled down his plates, garnished them with the nightly vegetables that were carved, blanched, and then quickly immersed in a buttered and seasoned water to bring them up to temp. Fortunately, the chef had placed prime rib on the menu with Yorkshire popovers.

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Restaurant365

JANUARY 7, 2022

Yet, unfortunately, it looks as if we are to have another winter season of adjustments ahead with the Omnicron variant predicted to peak in the United States in January of 2022. Sidewalks, parking lots, and even rooftops have become second dining rooms, each requiring special touches to intrigue customers and keep them coming back.

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