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Summer Safety Safeguards Every Restaurant Should Know

Modern Restaurant Management

From a restaurant owner’s perspective, it’s a lot more stressful with adding heat, outdoor dining and wet surfaces into the mix. Outdoor Dining 101 Designing an exceptional outdoor dining environment goes well beyond aesthetic elements. Do you have a rapid move-in plan should inclement weather suddenly appear?

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28 Strategies to Cut Costs in the Restaurant Business

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Increasing restaurant profits allows you to invest in upgrades, like better equipment or a nicer place for customers to eat. Examples of fixed costs for a restaurant include rent, insurance, and equipment lease payments. Be transparent and reward employees. However, this cost cutting tip is crucial.

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MRM Research Roundup: Destination Dining, Voice Commerce, and the Force of Fast Food

Modern Restaurant Management

Even with these enhancements in service quality, consumers still value having a real employee on the other end providing services. Also, keeping employees in a high-turnover business continues to be difficult, with QSRs requiring competitive wages and benefits to secure employees.

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After a Year of COVID-19, Restaurants Are Ready for a Reboot

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To tackle the concerns of customers and employees while focusing on business growth, restaurant owners will need to look to innovation and reimagine how they once operated. Restaurants lucky enough to have access to outdoor dining space had to balance the needs of the business with the safety of customers and employees.

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HVAC Technologies to Make Indoor Dining Safer in the COVID-19 Era

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As restaurants face the challenge of creating safe, indoor environments for their employees and customers during the COVID-19 pandemic, indoor air quality has become a focal point given growing scientific evidence that the virus spreads through airborne transmission. Air Ionization.

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10 Common Pitfalls in Restaurant Build-Outs

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Buying the lowest priced materials or hiring the lowest-bidding contractors can lead to shoddy workmanship, cheap and flimsy furniture, furnishings, and equipment that will inevitably break down sooner than higher quality goods and materials. Can you have an outdoor patio with seating? Pitfall #9: Buying used equipment.

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How to Open a Coffee Shop: The Ultimate Guide

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Sourcing Equipment. This includes but is not limited to your equipment, permits, menu, and marketing. Rent, equipment costs, supplies, marketing, and paying staff are among the costs you'll incur when just starting. However, a solid business plan can ignite the passion within someone like-minded and equipped to help you.