The Restaurant Blog

Burning Through Kitchen Payroll
May 07, 2008, 11:30 PM
When designing your kitchen make sure it can be utilyzed by a minimal kitchen staff who can handle the implementation of the entire menu. When your dining room is empty, your kitchen better not be full because it will reflect in your bottom line...

Payroll Percentages are a Numbers Game
May 06, 2008, 11:30 AM
The percentage game is difficult to play if you do not have the volume or discipline to adhere to a plan. Yet, in order to bring profits to the bottom line shaving a little here and a little there will add up to a very profitable business venture...

Innovation an Ingredient to Dining Success
April 30, 2008, 6:35 AM
While YUM boosts profits and sales those dollars are coming from some where. Could it be from your dining dollars? It's time to creatively attract customers...

Sauce on the Wall Unpalatable
April 26, 2008, 10:05 PM
Reaching great heights is an accomplishment that only few achieve. Yet, once you hit the top, make sure you don't take your eye off the wall...

Go Green, Help Your Bottom Line
April 22, 2008, 4:30 PM
So this is what will happen if you go green: Your customers will love you and bring theirkids to your restaurant, you will get extrememly busy and make a lot of money, buy a house in the Hamptons, and begin to cook for you neighbor's. The water will become cleaner, Salmon will flourish and life will be better because you did your part...

A New Lease or Life?
April 20, 2008, 12:40 AM
One of your biggest assets is your lease. When negotiating make sure that the long term picture comes into play. Often, when all is said and done, the lease is worth more - a lot more- than the entire restaurant you have worked at so hard....

Where Does all the Money Go?
April 17, 2008, 12:00 AM
Every time you turn around the pile of financial rewards you thought were there have suddenly disappeared. How could this e continually occurring? Noting defines cash flow better than a restaurant...it continually flows out. Professional hiring will help alleviate some of the bleeding...

Prepare for Disaster Before it Strikes
April 10, 2008, 10:15 AM
When that car ran the stop sign in Sonoma, California, last Thursday night, the late night driver charged through the front window of The Fig Pantry, closing the business and damaging the building. Could your business stand that type of disaster?

Tis the Season of Self Promotion
April 08, 2008, 2:10 PM
Whether big or small, large or tine, the art of self-promotiion is in constant motion. You need to keep thinking of culinary spin to keep your ame,nd the name of your restaurant in the public eye...

Don't Be Foolish
April 01, 2008, 11:40 PM
There are numerous laws and legislations that continuosly derail the best restaurant intentions. However, this is ridiculous...