With hospitality industry turnover rates commonly around 72%, you might feel like you’re constantly interviewing and hiring restaurant staff. But are you asking the right questions? Whether it’s hiring restaurant positions for kitchen staff, front of house servers, hosts, or managers, there are ten essential questions that can really help assess an applicant’s fit for
How to Handle Restaurant Reservation No-Shows So You Don’t Lose Money
It’s probably happened to you before — you’re expecting a restaurant reservation to come in for dinner, and they just don’t show up. Now you have an empty table and you’re relying on walk-in guests to come and fill the space of what should have been a guaranteed table for your staff. When it happens
How Much Does It Cost to Start a Restaurant?
New ones seem to pop up all the time. That empty storefront that used to be an insurance office — now a bustling sandwich shop. The vacant lot you never thought would get filled — now a Southern-themed family restaurant. Entrepreneurs left and right are looking for opportunities and spaces to build out their dreams
Sharing the Bottle: Supporting Women Wine Professionals
Facing challenges that are similar to the culinary world, the number of women in the wine industry lags behind their male counterparts. As an integral part of the hospitality industry, sommelier and beverage director positions can require long hours to cover new vintages and trends in beverages coming out every year. These jobs may also
7 Things to Know When Starting a Brewery
Let’s say you love beer. Not only do you love beer, but you want to make beer yourself. Maybe you’ve done homebrews before and now you want to share your beer with the world on a grander scale. Why not work on starting a brewery? Getting a brewery off the ground is basically like starting
HR 101: Your Restaurant Employee Handbook
Everyone needs structure. It’s how we know what to do next, whether what we did was successful, and helps us work better with others. For businesses large and small, the basics of that structure is epitomized in the employee handbook. Building out a restaurant employee handbook can seem daunting at first, but getting down to the why,
Growing a Restaurant Profit Margin: How You Can Control Your Costs
There’s one question that’s inevitably on every restaurateur’s mind, whether the market is good or bad: How do I grow my restaurant profit margin? Follow along as we narrow in on areas of your business where costs can be controlled to get you to a better bottom line: Scheduling staff Inventory and food waste Restaurant
How to Drive Foot Traffic to Your Restaurant
Among the top challenges faced by restaurant owners is marketing. Without the proper advertising and promotions, you can bet you’ll have a hard time earning the profits you want from your food services. Sometimes, a great location is enough to keep people walking through your doors. But, what if it isn’t? Can you still run
How Restaurants Can Manage Their Online Reputation and Brand
In recent years, businesses have discovered that how they’re perceived by internet users can make a big difference, not just in their online reputation, but also in their reputation as a whole. For restaurants in particular, online reviews and testimonials are a big part of that perception, and restaurant owners can certainly take steps to
Minority Owned Business Financing and the Restaurant Industry
America is growing and changing, inching ever closer to a true melting pot of people, places, and business — and the restaurant industry is no exception. In recent years, we’ve seen minority owned business continue to flourish, despite obstacles in their way. So, how have things changed in the last decade? What do these changes
