The Restaurant Coach University
JANUARY 29, 2017
Originally posted on Foodable TV Network November 7, 2016. By Donald Burns, Foodable Industry Expert. When your restaurant is running like a world championship team, everything is amazing. All the training, all the hard work, all the time fine-tuning your team and brand are paying off. You’re communicating, working together for a shared vision and mission.
Food Business
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Marisa Dobson is guest blogger this month. She is the founder & principal of Scintillate, a publicity and marketing consultancy that specializes in food & lifestyle clients. For over ten years, she's worked with professional creatives to turn their passions into passion projects. Visit www.marisadobson.com or follow her on Instagram: @marisa_dobson.
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Indoor Media
JULY 27, 2017
When you own a growing restaurant, every day you strive to create a friendly atmosphere and be a part of your customers’ daily routines or perhaps even lifelong memories. To continue doing what you love, you need to stay on top of the latest in your industry and ways to increase profits. This includes new restaurant marketing ideas and even operational tips.
Harbor Touch
JUNE 6, 2017
5.0. 10. 10 Tips On How To Open a New Restaurant. 1. Choose Your Restaurant Concept. The first consideration when starting and opening a new restaurant is to pick your idea and your niche. Is your opening a restaurant to follow your passion or to make the most money possible with high margin products? Are you considering opening a farm-to-table type environment?
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Choosing an HCM partner is one of the most important decisions you’ll make because time is one of your company’s most strategic assets. How do you want to spend your time?
Restaurant Clicks
NOVEMBER 5, 2017
Whether your restaurant is opening soon or has been open for some time, you’ll need to make some decisions on hiring an internal marketing team. How do you hire the right person to help your business grow? Too many people applying for marketing jobs believe posting on instagram and snap chat qualifies them as a marketing director. Remember, the most important thing is hiring someone for your restaurant who knows what to do and how to do it.
Bermar America
MAY 15, 2017
Expertly extending the life of an open bottle of wine with the precision and ease that can only be achieved with a world-class commercial wine preservation system has helped this restaurant chain to elevate their brand, service, and perfect pour capability in a highly profitable way. About Red Rabbit. Red Rabbit is a new addition to the already successful chain of Red Cow restaurants serving Minneapolis.
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Island Media Management
AUGUST 15, 2017
One of the most common obstacles we encounter is finding the right blog topics to boost SEO and at the same time create an informative post. In the article this week, we will run through how to brainstorm blog topics, how to create unique ones, find out if your blog topics are accomplishing your business’ goals, and how to not run out of ideas. Blogs are a necessity when it comes to SEO.
Sustainability Beyond the Plate
MARCH 31, 2017
Richard Young, Director of Education. I was recently invited to moderate a panel on Foodservice Maintenance and Repair at the Gas Foodservice Equipment Network’s (GFEN) Commercial Foodservice Workshop. The meeting was held at Piedmont Natural Gas’ (PNG) Demonstration Kitchen located in PNG’s John H. Maxheim Natural Gas Technology Center.
Gecko Hospitality
OCTOBER 6, 2017
A “Restaurant Manager” is much more of a broad job description than some people may think. There are so many different types of restaurants, from Quick Service (QSR), focusing on speed of service and inexpensive food items – to Fine Dining restaurants, where it’s all about “wining and dining” the guests – and of course, everything else in between. What type of restaurant management career do you want to build for yourself?
24/7 Waiter
APRIL 14, 2017
Proper restaurant management is far more than just making out the schedule for your workers. While the day-to-day tasks are certainly important as part of management, and they should never be ignored or put on the back burner. However, for restaurant management to be truly effective, it needs to encompass many other elements. The following, which includes some of those daily tasks, as well as bigger picture elements, are some of the most important things the restaurant owner and management staff
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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr
The Restaurant Coach University
MARCH 2, 2017
When business is slow, many restaurants turn to discounts and coupons in order to get more people through the door. However, discounting is rarely an effective strategy for developing regular customers, and can even end up hurting your business. We spoke to Donald Burns (aka The Restaurant Coach™) to learn why loyalty programs are a much wiser path to success than giving away your product.
Food Business
OCTOBER 20, 2017
Communication and the Ideal Millennial Workplace: ATTRACTING AND RETAINING YOUNG TALENT IN YOUR FOOD SERVICE ENDEAVOR Guest Blog by Abbie Garcia By the year 2020 millennials will make up 40% of the overall workforce, so it’s wildly important to the future success of your business that you understand how to go about attracting and retaining members of this oft-written of and just as frequently misunderstood demographic.
Indoor Media
DECEMBER 21, 2017
Every business owner has to start somewhere. IndoorMedia’s CEO, Doug Endsley, started his career working in fast food and moved on to found the nation’s largest in-store advertising company. In our Business Growth Leadership Series , Doug discusses the events that led to his current success and how today’s entrepreneurs can learn from his decades of experience.
Tundra Restaurant Suppkly
MAY 3, 2017
Here in the states, the debate for and against the tipping system in the foodservice industry will always be a point of contention. But I’m not here to talk about that. Instead, let’s talk about how to make the best of the system now—like how to make bigger tips. Here at Tundra Restaurant Supply , many of us have worked in the restaurant industry at one time or another as hosts, servers, managers, chefs and even service technicians.
Advertiser: Paycor
Choosing an HCM partner is one of the most important decisions you’ll make because time is one of your company’s most strategic assets. How do you want to spend your time?
Restaurant Clicks
OCTOBER 23, 2017
When it comes to social media marketing for restaurants, how can you tell if you are doing it right or not? We analyzed dozens of restaurants to see why some are killing it with social media and others are struggling. All the data points to a few key differences in how they organize the process plus the content. It is actually a lot easier than you might think.
Bermar America
SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
When a reputable restaurateur and steak house aficionado is wowed by a wine preservation system, that says a lot about the technology on display. So, when Dean Laplant of DC Steak House, Arizona , purchased Le Verre de Vin Twin Pod Bar , he made it the focal point of his intimate wine bar and seized the opportunity to delight his guests with an elevated wine by the glass service.
Gourmet Marketing
DECEMBER 26, 2017
It’s important to develop your online presence as a restaurant. Thus, you should be aware of the top restaurant review blogs, and build strategic partnerships with the right ones. These blogs have influence over consumers. They are tastemakers. Their recommendations can have significant sway over their readers and where they have their next meal. Right now, consumers are tight with their money, and they don’t want to pay for a subpar meal.
Island Media Management
AUGUST 15, 2017
One of the most common obstacles we encounter is finding the right blog topics to boost SEO and at the same time create an informative post. In the article this week, we will run through how to brainstorm blog topics, how to create unique ones, find out if your blog topics are accomplishing your business’ goals, and how to not run out of ideas. Blogs are a necessity when it comes to SEO.
Speaker: Lauren Fernandez - CEO & Founder, Full Course
Companies all over the world, including Marriot International and Hilton Worldwide, are aware of the value of including DEI in their talent acquisition strategy. However, despite these initiatives, there is still plenty that the hospitality sector can do to promote DEI. When comparing the hospitality industries in India, Iraq, the UK, and the US, you will see that there is a consistent underrepresentation of persons from different ethnic, gender, and disability origins across all levels of the i
Sustainability Beyond the Plate
JUNE 30, 2017
Richard Young, Director of Education. The Food Service Tecnology Center (FSTC) held two educational seminars in June covering the relationship between food and energy waste. The seminar at the PG&E facility in San Ramon featured presentations from the FSTC’s Richard Young and Claudia Pingatore who were joined by guest speakers Samantha Sommers ( ReThink Disposable ), Mike Goldblatt ( Copia ), Kerry Flickner ( Foodservice Sustainability Solutions ), and Anne Baker & Kimberly Lam ( Repub
UXATA
NOVEMBER 21, 2017
At Villa El Dorado, Playa del Carmen. The post This is how you enjoy a dinner in the Caribbean! Frank and friends toasting for the magic of the Riviera Maya, with UXATA Chef Services. appeared first on UXATA Private Chef Services Riviera Maya.
24/7 Waiter
MARCH 26, 2017
For your restaurant business to be a success, you need customers that want to keep returning to your establishment and that want to tell everyone about how great it is. The only way that you can accomplish this is by keeping those customers happy. The following are some tips you will want to adopt for your restaurant if you haven’t already. Have a Friendly Staff.
The Restaurant Coach University
SEPTEMBER 10, 2017
There’s only one reason. There’s only one reason why your restaurant will fail. However, first let me tell you all the reasons it won’t. It’s not your business partners. It’s not your staff. It’s not your market. It’s not your spouse. It’s not your competition. It’s not your price point. It’s not even who is currently president.
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Food Business
SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
Understanding and keeping up with your businesses health is, frankly, necessary to your business success. It's important to know how various benchmarks work for your specific restaurant, cafe or brewery. Prime costs benchmark is 60% (quick serve) and 65% (restaurant). Now, you might be reading this and saying, "Now, remind me, what is prime cost again?
Indoor Media
DECEMBER 21, 2017
New restaurants face an uphill climb to succeed. One recent study found that 17 percent of startup restaurants fail within the first year. Though this is a more encouraging statistic than previous gloom-and-doom numbers that pegged first-year failure rates well beyond 50 percent, it provides little solace to entrepreneurs who know that everything about their restaurants must be perfect from the start to make it beyond 12 months.
ForaFinancial
SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
The post How to Choose the Right Food Ordering Apps for Your Restaurant appeared first on Fora Financial.
Restaurant Clicks
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Have you ever wondered why some restaurants show up in the three maps results for Google searches and maybe yours does not? Ranking your restaurant in that three pack is a sure way to generate a lot more customers for your business. There is a secret recipe to rank higher in the maps. 1. Claim and Optimize Your Google Business Page. The Google Maps engine is based of the Google My Business (GMB) directory/pages.
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Artificial Intelligence continues to dominate conversations around technology. The transformative potential for this technology is massive. Virtually no industry is siloed from the possibilities of artificial intelligence, including restaurants. All new technologies come with a degree of uncertainty. Considering AI’s disruptive potential, many in the restaurant industry have feelings ranging from curiosity to concern regarding what these advancements might mean for the workers powering restauran
Bermar America
DECEMBER 21, 2017
Sparkling wines are expected to continue their growth this season and well into 2018. At Bermar America, we’re excited that customer demand has moved a trend into a sustained growth opportunity for operators of wine-by-the-glass programs. We have seen a marked increase in demand from savvy operators who are seeking to serve an enticing range of sparkling wines.
Gourmet Marketing
DECEMBER 19, 2017
You know you need reviews for your restaurant. They lend credibility to your place of business and offer social proof. Plus, they help with search engine optimization (or SEO), and can lead to more visibility in search. But it’s not just about getting reviews, is it? After all, negative, generic, and terse reviews won’t do you much good. What you want to encourage is consistently amazing, four- or five-star reviews.
Social Hospitality
DECEMBER 11, 2017
There is no tool more powerful than storytelling, and Rob Walker wanted nothing but to prove it. In 2009, he bought several objects from eBay and asked 100 creative writers to invent stories about $128.74 worth of items to see if the stories can transform insignificant objects into significant ones. In case you’re wondering how the storytelling experiment went: $3,612.51 net profit of the items being sold.
Sustainability Beyond the Plate
MAY 31, 2017
Mark Duesler, Chef Consultant/Program Advisor. On Sunday May 21st, the PG&E Food Service Technology Center was invited by The Restaurant at Wente Vineyards to help support their booth at the 30th annual Meals On Wheels ’ Star Chefs and Vintners Gala donor event at the Fort Mason Festival Pavilion in San Francisco. For those not familiar with Meals on Wheels, it is a program dedicated to providing seniors with friendly visits and nutritious meals.
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