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Four Questions to Consider Before Opening an Outdoor Seating Space

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Whether a restaurant, bar, food market, or similar establishment, creating outdoor seating has allowed many businesses to remain afloat throughout COVID and will be crucial for the coming months. However, before putting up your tent or enclosures, there are important safety considerations to address first: 1.

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THE INTER-DEPENDANCE OF BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY RESTAURANTS

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The stores were empty, and restaurant service staff were staring out windows from the vantage of unfilled seats. Every restaurant knows that once a customer walks through the door a sale of food and beverage will likely result. Is it safety, parking, navigating a store or restaurant menu, pricing, speed of service, or lines?

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Time Traveling Through History’s Weirdest Entertaining Advice

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Their tips range from the mundane — make sure you have enough food, don’t run out of booze — to the absolutely absurd. As such, you should seat your “very silent” friends between those who never shut up. She also suggests that you avoid seating two “brilliant people” together. “If Never EVER serve chips.

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THE KING IS IN THE HOUSE

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Past maintenance and the boiler room of massive furnaces providing heat and hot water for twenty some odd floors of guest rooms and eighteen banquet rooms ranging in size from twenty seat board rooms to two-thousand seat ballrooms, and the three restaurants that grace the main lobby.

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

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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. Consider food costs, labor costs, and cost of marketing your reopening. Additionally, by keeping the menu to a limited number of dishes, you can better plan and manage your food costs.

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Your 7-Step Guide to Reopening Your Restaurant

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Update your restaurant policies and operating procedures In order to reopen your restaurant safely and successfully, you’ll need to update your restaurant’s policies and operating procedures to comply with the latest safety guidance provided by the FDA, CDC, and your local government. Social distancing and protective equipment ??

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Where Safety Meets Satisfaction — Tips For COVID-Era Restaurateurs to Elevate Their Customer Offerings

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Safety and Normalcy. Then the same devices that make guests feel more secure, such as safety screens between booths, can be erected in a way that increases the feel of intimacy or privacy. Other practices can be updated to enhance the feeling of personal service; for instance, table settings can be placed as guests are seated.