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Expanding Your Business? Seven Tips to Improve Cash Flow to Fund a New Location

Modern Restaurant Management

It is important to consider if the first location has the cash flow to help financially carry the second location for a period of time if needed. Below are seven tips to improve the cash flow and make the most out of a current location to ensure a steady stream of revenue to serve as a buffer through those first months.

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Five Things Every Restaurant Can Do to Boost Profits While Reopening

Modern Restaurant Management

Improving from 20 percent margin to a 35-percent margin on a $12 dish, serving five0 covers per night translates into a $90 net increase in profits, allowing for increased cash flow to sustain operations. Optimize Inventory. Let’s say you operate a burger shop with beginning inventory valued at $5,000. Adopt Technology.

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Restaurant Failure Rate: Why Restaurants Fail And How To Make Yours Succeed

ChowNow

Youre not just managing food and staff, youre battling slim profit margins, high operating expenses, and constantly changing customer preferences. Poor Financial Planning The Issue: Underestimating startup costs, no cash flow buffer, and unclear budgeting. Running a restaurant is one of the most rewardingyet riskyventures out there.

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MRM Research Roundup: AI Investment Heating Up and Summer Dining Dos and Don’ts

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the present and future of AI use in F&B, The Splintered Path to Purchase, the Datassential 500 Awards, and where chefs are earning six figures. At the same time, U.S. chain sales grew just 3.1 percent in 2024 — falling short of the 4.1

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Checklist For Reopening Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

However, as long as you keep the spotlight on food safety – sanitization, employee health monitoring and personal hygiene, and social distancing – your restaurant won’t be a hub of contagion. With less inventory and even fewer customers coming in, we recommend that you widen your margins and revamp your offerings.

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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. Plain and simple – social media IS YOUR MOST IMPORTANT PLATFORM FOR COMMUNICATION.

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How Restaurants Can Utilize a Small Business Loan to Fuel Growth

The Rail

Securing more resources guarantees that your restaurant can manage more demand without compromising quality, whether it comes to equipment upgrades, automation investments, or production facility expansion. A well-run cash flow plan helps companies seize chances for expansion without second thoughts about finances.