It may seem perfunctory to say so, but both flooring and walls are crucial elements to any restaurant’s interior design. They’re the base upon which all other aspects of your restaurant’s design is built. The good news is that you have numerous options when it comes to paint, wallpaper, and flooring. The bad news is…
Sit Yourself Down: Choosing the Right Seating for Your Restaurant
There are many reasons customers make repeat visits to your restaurant. Chief among them, as our latest free eBook surmises, are quality, personable service, and the ability to earn rewards. Your food needs to impress. Your service needs to impress. Guests need to feel like they’re getting a great value for the money they spend.
Light It Up: Choosing the Right Lighting for Your Restaurant
So much of a restaurant operator’s focus is put onto designing the menu, the seating, the decorations… but how much of that ends up sabotaged if the guests can barely see any of it? Lighting is an aspect of restaurant design that can be easily overlooked by even the most seasoned of owners or managers.
How to Build Your Restaurant Bar Inventory
Managing a restaurant bar can be daunting. Every concern, responsibility, and task you have for your food inventory is now doubled by introducing liquor to the mix. Twice as many distributors. Twice as many menus. More employees. More upfront expense. But if you’re successful, your bar can also generate more patrons and higher revenue. There’s
Flush It Out: 7 Tips for Your Restaurant Bathroom Renovation
It’s easy to overlook them as a particularly crucial element to your business, but your restaurant’s restrooms can play an important part in its success. A poorly maintained or dirty looking restroom can be a major turn-off in the guest experience. A survey recently conducted by SCA Tissue North America found that nearly one out
7 Hidden Pockets of Profit for Your Restaurant
Figuring out new ways to increase your restaurant sales is a big part of what it means to be a successful manager. Your team looks to you to direct their efforts. Your owner (if you are not one yourself) looks to you to increase their bottom line, but identifying profitable ideas that organically build on
Staying Ahead of the Game: Commercial Kitchen Cleaning
Cleaning is one of those necessary frustrations about working in a commercial kitchen. After all, chefs and cooks love to focus on making the food, so it’s tempting to shirk certain cleaning duties and only handle the creative side of preparing delicious dishes. But keeping a clean kitchen is no joke. Besides needing to maintain
A Round of Gratitude: 3 Ways Restaurants Can Say Thanks
The end of the year can be a hectic time for any business, but especially for restaurants. Between implementing holiday specials, scheduling your staff around their time off with family, and handling holiday reservations, it can get busy. However, the holiday season can also be a good time to reflect on the last 12 months
Holy Shift! 6 Tips for a Successful Restaurant Shift Change
For the most successful restaurants, shift changes run like clockwork. But for many establishments, they can be a nightmare. It’s during shift changes that prep work gets completed, the majority of cleaning takes place, and the scheduling and cash register counts get handled. If all goes smoothly, your next shift’s staff will have everything they
Boom, Boom, Boom: Soundproofing Your Restaurant
Your restaurant is bustling. The dining room is full of people laughing and talking. Servers are moving through your space, taking and delivering orders. By all appearances, business is booming. There’s a palpable energy customers can feel the second they walk through the door. So why isn’t everyone smiling? It’s noise. Your restaurant is just
