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Table Turnover Rate in Your Restaurant: How to Improve & Seat Incomplete Parties

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It is calculated by dividing the number of guests served by the number of tables available during that time period. For example, if a restaurant has 10 tables and serves 30 guests in a four-hour period, its table turnover would be 3. This should include all tables available for seating customers.

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How Restaurants Can Use Loyalty and Reservations to Grow the Brand

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Two such powerful tools are loyalty programs and reservation systems. User-generated content serves as authentic testimonials and broadens the restaurant’s reach to potential customers in the customers’ social networks. Data Collection Reservation systems can collect valuable data about customers’ dining preferences and frequency.

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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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Why restaurants should take reservations

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People fall into two categories when it comes to reservations: Love ‘em or hate ‘em. Guests on team reservations tend to be planners, the people who aren’t willing to wait for a table or roll the dice on where they’ll have dinner. Team no-reservations, on the other hand, prize spontaneity. Reservations bring order to this chaos.

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Now serving: a new way on iPhone to manage the floor plan on the go

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It’s been very valuable to be able to place reservations on the go,” says Layla Binafif, host at Trattoria Dario Italian Family Restaurant in Vero Beach, Florida. “I I don’t usually have the tablet handy, so having the floor plan on my phone helps me organize reservations even when I’m away from the restaurant.”

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How to write a restaurant marketing plan that puts butts in seats [Ideas and Strategies]

7 Shifts

Maybe it's how you cook or serve the food, like at Benihana. Dozens of companies provide high-quality drag-and-drop templates with all the tools you need to take reservations and online orders. Strong statements don't just list goals but define how to achieve them. Work on your Unique Selling Proposition (USP). Do my hyperlinks work?

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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. Adjust floor plans to fit local seating capacity and social distancing regulations Demarcate floor with markers for any areas where a line up may occur (restrooms, pick up areas, etc.)

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