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Restaurant Communications Strategy Background

How to build a restaurant communications strategy

Learn how to build a restaurant communications strategy that can help to establish a successful relationship with local media outlets.

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Developing your restaurant’s brand

Are you doing all you can to differentiate yourself in the market? Learn how to create a successful restaurant brand from the ground up.

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How to launch online ordering for long-term success

Discover how to successfully launch and maintain online ordering for takeout/delivery for your restaurant.

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Third-Party Delivery Services

Top third-party food delivery services

An overview of the pricing and key takeaways for several of the biggest third-party food delivery companies.

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How to Build a Successful Restaurant Website

Learn how to craft a website that’s not only aesthetically pleasing, but strategically built to convert visitors into long-time customers.

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COVID-19 Emergency Loan Guide

A restaurant owner’s guide to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, including an overview of the two main loan programs.

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Coronavirus Era: 13 Restaurant Marketing Tips

We’re sharing innovative ways that restaurant owners can continue to generate revenue despite challenges stemming from the coronavirus.

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Restaurant Photography

20 Tips for Taking Perfect Restaurant Photographs

20 tips on taking high-quality restaurant photographs of your stellar dishes and space, without having to hire a professional.

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Is Your Restaurant Ready for the Summer Rush?

We run down some budget-friendly tips on how to lure more customers into your restaurant during the busy summertime months.

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Restaurant Trends 2020 Ebook

Restaurant Trends in 2020

Find out what restaurant trends will be hot in 2020, and how to best capitalize on them to bring in more customers and boost overall sales.

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Preparing Your Restaurant for Warm or Cold Weather

Summer and winter can creep up on you, and if you’re not ready, the costs can be massive. We lay out how you can prepare and protect your restaurant.

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10 Tax Tips for Restaurants and Bars

10 quick tax tips, including deductions, tax credits, and withholdings for restaurants.

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Social Media for Restaurants: 4 Hurdles to Overcome

Learn how to grasp the basics of today’s social media, get the timing right, find the right audience, and fine-tune your expectations.

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Hire, Train, Retain, Discipline: Restaurant Management for Success

Restaurant management tips for hiring, training, retaining, and disciplining restaurant employees in order to manage your staff more efficiently.

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Restaurant Labor Costs

How to Reduce Your Restaurant Labor Costs and Save Money

See how forecasting your labor costs can help drive smarter hiring, better training, and operational changes that promote efficiency.

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Restaurant Holiday

How to Make the Most of the Holiday Rush

How will your restaurant handle the holiday rush? We have 12 tips on how to stay organized in busy times and make the most profit possible in a short time.

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How to Balance the Challenges and Opportunities of Off-Premise Dining

See how forecasting your labor costs can help drive smarter hiring, better training, and operational changes that promote efficiency.

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12 Ways to Maximize Sales with Summer Events

PARTY TIME: 12 Ways to Maximize Sales with Summer Events

We take an in-depth look at your restaurant equipment and maintenance needs, including prep and storage, cooking, and cleaning.

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12 Ways to Fix Up Your Restaurant for Under $1,000

Fresh ideas on how to spruce up the look and feel of your restaurant without spending on a full-scale renovation

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Restaurant Competitor Analysis

4 Numbers Every Restaurant Must Know About Its Competitors

A point-by-point look at how you measure up against the competition and insight that provides when marketing to your customers.

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Restaurant Equipment

Restaurant Equipment: Keeping It Safe, Efficient, and Profitable

We take an in-depth look at your restaurant equipment and maintenance needs, including prep and storage, cooking, and cleaning.

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Restaurant Technology

Choosing Restaurant Technology that Drives Profit for Your Business

Restaurant Technology that drives profit - walk-through of new POS system, online reservations, shift scheduling tools, and inventory management systems.

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Restaurant Manager

How to Hire the Best Restaurant Manager for Your Business

Trouble hiring a restaurant manager? We walk through the process step-by-step, from writing a job description and reading resumes to how to set a salary.

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The Essential Restaurant Equipment Checklist

Restaurant equipment checklist: breakdown by year, month, week, day, and shift of all the major cleaning and maintenance needs to keep your kitchen running.

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Restaurant Data

How to Understand Your Restaurant’s Success with Only 10 Numbers

Are you really getting the full picture of how your restaurant is doing financially? Understand Your restaurant’s success with restaurant data.

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Restaurant Business Plan

9 Essential Parts of a Winning Restaurant Business Plan

Getting your financial ducks in a row is much more likely if you have a strong business plan in place for your restaurant. We outline how.

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What’s Your Restaurant Brand? How to Develop a Vision for Your Business

Are you doing all you can to differentiate yourself in the market? We walk through how to build your brand from the ground up.

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Building a Better Restaurant Staff: Conflict and Diversity Management Tips

Is your employee handbook covering enough? Tips on conflict resolution, handling harassment, and how to talk to Millennials.

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Restaurant Turnover Rate

15 Ways to Reduce Your Employee Turnover Rate Now

The average restauranteur spends more than $5,000 a year in hidden costs from turnover. How do you keep great employees longer?

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Restaurant Promotions

20 Ways to Promote Your Restaurant for Under $1,000

Innovative solutions to market your restaurant, manage restaurant promotions, and generate more traffic on a limited budget.

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Hiring Restaurant Staff

10 Interview Questions to Ask When Hiring Restaurant Staff

Are you asking the right questions when interviewing applicants for your restaurant? This quick list can help you find better workers.

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Restaurant Profit Margin

Growing a Restaurant Profit Margin: How You Can Control Your Costs

Learn to control costs through smarter scheduling, inventory tracking and less food waste, better suppliers, and menu design.

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Find the Perfect Employee

How to Hire the Perfect Restaurant Employees

Powerful insights into how your restaurant hiring process can go more smoothly — and find you restaurant employees that will get the job done.

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Restaurant Remodeling: Getting Your Front of House in Order

How remodeling your front of house — seating, lighting, walls, floors, soundproofing, and bathrooms — can generate more revenue.

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Opening a Restaurant

The Essential Checklist to Opening a Restaurant

We have your "Opening a Restaurant" checklist, a guide to restaurant start up costs, and a way to start your restaurant business plan.

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Restaurant Trends in 2018

What’s going to be hot — and not — in 2018 with restaurant operations, menu trends, and the state of the industry as a whole.

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Restaurant Menu Design

How to Use Restaurant Menu Design to Increase Your Sales

Four ways to make a great first impression on your customers, and bring in more sales, with an attractive restaurant menu design.

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How to Choose the Best Restaurant Suppliers

10 ways to recognize the total value of a vendor or supplier to your restaurant, including delivery, billing, promotional offers, connections, and more.

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Millennial Employees: How to Effectively Manage the Next Generation

Insider’s tips on best practices to effectively manage millennials and breaking down tension between workplace generations.

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Restaurant Marketing Strategies

Restaurant Marketing Strategies for Slow Times

Five restaurant marketing strategies to fill your revenue gap during the slow times, without impacting your core business.

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How to Get the Best Results from Your Restaurant Advertising

Focus on these three forms of restaurant advertising to reach the potential diners and get the highest returns on investment (ROI) on your budget.

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What’s Eating into Your Restaurant Profit (and How to Improve Your Cash Flow)

Think ahead about the expected costs, variable expenses, and employment requirements to keep your restaurant cash flow intact.

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Restaurant Opportunities and Small Business Loans for Women

Explore how women are changing the restaurant industry, and what challenges they still face today in financing, pay, and benefits.

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Restaurant Design

The Secret to Great Restaurant Design

How you can update your restaurant design through smart renovation, supporting your restaurant business plan to maximize profits.

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Restaurant Marketing Plan

Find Your Most Valuable Customer: Building Your Restaurant Marketing Plan

How new and repeat customers can impact your marketing plan and help you increase overall sales at your restaurant today.

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How to Increase Your Summer Restaurant Sales

Increase summer restaurant sales by hiring new restaurant staff, planning new restaurant menu ideas, expanding the drink list, and opening your patio space.

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The Key to Successful Restaurant Marketing

Why are your customers making return visits to your restaurant? Believe it or not, it isn’t necessarily your food.

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The Only 4 Ways to Increase Restaurant Sales

How can you increase new customers, repeat visits, ticket size, and table turns to generate higher sales for your restaurant?

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