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How to Plan Your Restaurant's Grand Re-Opening Event

7 Shifts

1 Set goals for the event ?? Set a goal for your restaurant’s grand opening—whether it’s seating capacity, an order volume, or revenue for your first day back in business. Having a specific goal will help you plan out your budget, labor needs, marketing strategy, messaging, and organization before the event. Advertise! ??

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Level Up Your Bar Entertainment (7 Trending Event Ideas)

Buzztime Business

Ever feel like you’re stuck in a rut when it comes to entertainment and events at your bar? Many bar owners get so caught up in day-to-day operations, events become an afterthought. Here’s how it works: At the first event, ask a local musician to be the judge. Pick one night a week to host a rotating “summer camp” event.

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THE BEST PATH TO CHEFDOM

Culinary Cues

Oftentimes these properties boast a few a ’la carte restaurants, room service, special property events, banquets, weddings, buffets, and three meals a day in at least one of their outlets. The ability to execute events of more than 500 persons helps to build competence, speed, efficiency, and confidence.

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Understanding and Using ‘Influence Patterns’ with Restaurant & Cafe Customers

Ken Burgin

They ‘influenced’ you in a way that caused you to act differently to what you thought was ‘rational’. As a business person, your ability to influence the actions and beliefs of others is of crucial importance. It is impossible not to influence others. So when we discuss the issue of influence, we need not ask the question.

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2022 Restaurant Design Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

Often restaurants will have multiple televisions playing whatever sporting event is on that night and customers tend to focus on them instead of the people they are at the restaurant with. When using biophilic design it is important to use natural tones for tables, bar fronts and seating to replicate tones found in nature.

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WHY RUNNING A CLUB KITCHEN MIGHT BE THE TOUGHEST AND MOST SATISFYING CHEF POSITION OUT THERE

Culinary Cues

In this size operation there will likely be a sous chef for each restaurant outlet and a banquet chef whose focus is large-scale events. Does the chef take care of his or her own ordering or work through a purchasing agent or steward? Each property is unique – thus the job of chef is also unique.

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Why Setting Wait Time Expectations Is Key to a Good Customer Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

With a virtual queuing system, notifications can be sent directly to the customer’s device to inform them of status updates, including unexpected reservation changes or the amount of time remaining until they’ll be seated. The presence of this objective data minimizes the guessing that may be causing patrons needless angst.