ChowNow

JANUARY 30, 2025

If its primarily blue-collar workers, youll probably want to have larger food portions and a good selection of beer on the menu. To achieve this, focus on creating uniformity across all aspects of your restaurant. Then, dive deeper into who they arewhat are their wants and needs? Consistency builds trust.

Email Marketing

ChowNow

JANUARY 23, 2025

1) Pop-Up Collaborations Partner with other local businesses, like a bakery, brewery, coffee shop, roastery, or food truck, for exclusive menu items or drinks. This can be as big or small as youd likefor example, you could connect with a local distillery and use their spirits for one cocktail or develop an entire menu around it.

Events

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 29, 2025

They ensure that team members are adhering to best practices, remaining friendly, efficient and attentive, and that they possess the necessary knowledge of the menu to address guest inquiries. For franchised businesses, success is largely driven by uniformity; when one location falls short, it impacts the reputation of the entire brand.

Franchise

ChowNow

MAY 9, 2025

Food Costs (COGS) Your food costs, or cost of goods sold (COGS), include everything that goes into producing your menu items, including: Recipe ingredients Beverages Condiments Disposables, like to-go containers, straws, and napkins Tracking your food costs percentage helps you understand how much of your revenue is being spent on your menu.

Operations

7 Shifts

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Add high-quality photos and videos regularly, posting as soon as new dishes are added to your menu. Another great way to partner with local businesses is by featuring their products on your menu or in your restaurant marketing. Keep your hours updated as well, especially if you have special holiday hours or seasonal changes.

Marketing

ChowNow

APRIL 25, 2025

Its the sum of everything about your restaurant, from your menu design and decor to the tone you use when replying to comments on social media or greeting customers walking through the door. Your restaurants brand personality, tone, visualseven your menu itemsshould all be shaped around your ideal target market. Polished and refined?

Mobile Ordering

The Rail

MAY 22, 2025

This covers everything from the language on your menu to the tone of your social media captioning. This covers expertly styled interior pictures, professional photos of your food , and an elegant menu, uniform, and signage branding. If your restaurant feels cozy and comfortable, your terminology should be relaxed and welcoming.

Social Media

The Rail

APRIL 18, 2025

Ketchup Packets and the Philosophy of Longing Nostalgia wears a uniform. Then, tag it with the truth: names, years, and menu items long gone but not forgotten. The laminated menu youve used for one week before spilling red sauce on it. They catch uniforms you no longer claim and staff you barely remember.

Social Media

Restaurant Clicks

JULY 21, 2025

The menu includes pulled pork with Carolina-style sauce, dry-rubbed brisket, turkey, pulled chicken, ribs, and house-made sausage. The walls are filled with uniforms, patches, and photos donated by those who served, giving each location a strong community feel.

Back of House

Future Food

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Less choice might be the obvious downside for customers but then focus can move to the quality of food being made and potentially deflect menu price increases. The operator can take advantage of the opportunity to reduce waste from too much stockholding and use less labour resources for a narrow menu. Small is beautiful.

Hospitality

Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Foot traffic or heat mapping, menu item engagement, or consumer demographics by time of day. – Sophia Goldberg, Cofounder & CEO, Ansa Markets Matter In a world where chain stores and online retail offer uniformity, local markets stand out as vibrant hubs of diversity, reflecting the character and culture of their communities.

2025

SpotOn

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Gross profit margin Gross profit margin measures how much money you have left over after COGS and is used to measure the profitability of your menu. You can go even deeper with menu engineering , which is the process of evaluating each menu item's sales (popularity) and gross profit margin (profitability). Smallwares.

License

Restaurant Engine

DECEMBER 25, 2024

The dishes you offer, their presentation, where you get your ingredients, and how you lay out your menu. The style of customer service you offer, the uniforms your staff wear, and how your team interacts with your customers. All of your marketing how do you communicate with people?

Social Media

Culinary Cues

OCTOBER 27, 2024

If you are working in a burger operation, the goal must be to view everything about that menu item as a vehicle toward excellence.

Training

Indoor Media

JANUARY 16, 2025

You could have an extensive or creative menu. Do they need a menu with cocktails and Neapolitan pies with truffle oil and fig compote? From the design of your menu to the look of your pizza boxes, every element should reflect your brand’s personality and values. Vehicles, uniforms, boxes, and menus all play a part.

Website Management

Restaurant Engine

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

When drizzling or making dots, use squeeze bottles to apply sauces in artistic drizzles or uniform dots. Get a Free Consultation » Is your website ready to highlight your online menu? At Restaurant Engine, we can create a website for you that showcases your online menu and sets it apart from the competition.

Social Media

Lavu

JULY 11, 2025

Data Insights: Real-time data helps optimize staffing, menu adjustments, and inventory. This means owners can manage their operations, update menus, and track inventory across multiple locations in real time. Growing restaurants All basic features plus advanced reporting, delivery tools dual pricing, menu customization Enterprise $99.99

POS

EATER

JANUARY 31, 2025

Almost everything written about the restaurant shoehorns in a mention of the roasted chicken with bread salad for two, a dish that the late chef Judy Rodgers added to the menu almost 30 years ago. Spoiler: Its a mess if youre not a pro butcher.)

Seasonal Menu

The Rail

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Utilize Interactive Menus An interactive menu is a digitized menu that is designed to allow interaction and personalization for food selections. There are multiple variations and digital forms of interactive menus, such as apps, tablets , websites, kiosks, and more. Having a staff uniform improves the restaurant's look.

Customer Experience

Squirrel Systems

JUNE 11, 2025

Real-Time Menu and Service Updates Across Locations A major advantage of a cloud-based POS system is the ability to update menus, pricing, and inventory in real time. If a menu item sells out or a promotion changes, the system updates instantly across all terminals and locations.

Hotels

Perfect Daily Grind

JUNE 1, 2025

You may also like our article on why roasters and coffee shops need to strategise menu pricing. I spoke with Kacper Ornat and Łukasz Jura at Coffee Machines Sale and Nikolai Fürst at Desarrolladores de Café about why quality control is more important than ever in today’s competitive specialty coffee market.

Point of Sale

The Restaurant Group

MAY 3, 2025

Training expenses , new uniforms, and onboarding all add up and crush your labor cost management. Boost your restaurant staff retention by investing in your people, not just your menu. High staff attrition destroys service quality and leaves customers feeling like just another order number.

Cash Management

Restaurant Engine

JUNE 14, 2025

Take a look at your menu, your interior design, or even your brand messaging. Menu design: Matches the new visual direction. Other visuals: Pay attention to your signage and uniforms, too. Use the menu as a storytelling tool to highlight new dishes. Are trained and familiar with new menu items or operational changes.

Social Media

Lavu

MAY 2, 2025

Modern POS systems simplify this process by automating allergen tagging, updating menus in real time, and integrating with kitchen tools to reduce errors. Key Features to Look For : Allergen tagging, menu customization, real-time updates, and integration with kitchen systems.

Allergens

ChowNow

JUNE 20, 2025

It means a clear identity that shows up everywhere, like your menu, your website, your social feed, and even the bathrooms. Optimize Your Restaurant Website to be Fast and Mobile-Friendly Start by making sure your website loads quickly, is mobile-friendly, and has clear calls to action, like “Order Now,” “Make a Reservation,” or “View Menu.”

Marketing

EATER

APRIL 30, 2025

Carme similarly systemized dress as a way to professionalize the culinary arts: Just as doctors and lawyers were expected to dress in a certain way, Carme felt that chefs should wear uniforms. He donned a double-breasted jacket as a uniform, and popularized a version of the chefs toque.

Fine Dining

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

But, if you have a playful style that could be embodied by a mascot character, consider developing a fun mascot figurehead to speak directly to your customers from your social media posts, signage, menu, website, and maybe even merchandise. Make it easy to find important things like your menu, location, phone number and hours of operation.

2020

7 Shifts

AUGUST 29, 2019

Menu engineering: while the name might suggest you need to go to college at MIT to be good at it, is actually a common and essential task that all restaurateurs should regularly undertake. Menu engineering can be simplified as the steps taken to increase the profitability of a restaurant menu. Menu Pricing and 2.

Menu

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 7, 2024

Whether restaurants have one location or are a chain, it's essential to make sure customers are experiencing the same uniform messaging across all platforms from in-store banners, printed flyers, and emails to website and online ordering. "Consistency is key. A balanced mix of online marketing and local marketing is ideal. "Make

Marketing

Culinary Cues

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Maybe, just maybe, that name on their uniform is the same as signing their work – something that the individual wants to respect with a “best foot forward”. Why not list your employees on the menu or on your website and their role in the organization. Maybe, quality can’t be anonymous – it needs public awareness.

Seminar

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 11, 2020

Think of it as a uniform change for your staff. No Menu Sharing. Prior to the pandemic, menus were the one communal piece of your restaurant picked up and handled by almost every customer. Get everyone the same color mask or gloves to make it seem intentional, coordinated and safe. Show that you have a strong team.

Customer Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 20, 2023

Pre-made food products can provide simplicity for staff while also helping cut costs, reduce waste, and increase consistency while maintaining a wide variety of menu items. Do More With Less and Optimize Your C-Store Business Making the switch to ready-to-use ingredients doesn’t mean a business has to limit their menu.

Food

Culinary Cues

MARCH 26, 2022

Again, turn to the National Restaurant Association for guidance. [] PRICING YOUR MENU BY COMPARISON. These are the restaurateurs who call me up and ask: “My dining room is full, why am I not making any money?”. [] NOT UNDERSTANDING HOW TO PLAN EFFECTIVE MENUS. The more often you budget and measure the better you will get at it.

Cash Management

Culinary Cues

MARCH 10, 2022

Here are some great rules to live by when it comes to dishwashers: [] Hire great attitudes. [] Pay a fair wage and offer ample opportunities to scale up every few months. [] Provide a clean, crisp uniform that parallels what you offer your cooks. [] Make sure new dish washers are properly oriented and trained.

Front of House

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2020

There’s a possibility that menu items may carry a lower price to entice business. The restaurants still operating are the ones making their popular menu items accessible to customers, while customers are also more inclined to order takeout and delivery right now to support the industry.

Customer Service

Culinary Cues

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Whatever your concept, whatever your menu – make sure that you execute it well every time. From the parking lot to the restrooms, carpet, walls, tabletop, and uniforms, stay on it! [] MATCH THE AMBIENCE TO THE CONCEPT. A restaurant cannot survive on attitude, service, and food alone – it must operate as a savvy business.

Fine Dining

Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 14, 2023

Match Your Atmosphere to Your Brand Restaurant branding goes further than your logo, employee shirts, or the aesthetic of your menu. That means considering factors like uniforms, the style of tables and chairs, music, and the overall decor. Successful branding requires that you adjust the overall atmosphere of your restaurant.

Social Media