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Information, news, tips, and trends seen in restaurants and other food service industries. Hot water heater information for restaurants and restaurant owners including money saving tips, energy saving tips, restaurant trends, hot water equipment needs, and more. More industry tips on running your restaurants more efficiently, reducing water costs, energy costs, and increasing profits, and other industry trends to grow your business. Reliable Water Services provides hot water equipment rentals and service plans for restaurants and other food services industries in Wisconsin, Indiana, and other areas of the upper Midwest.

Restaurants

Time for a Deep Clean: Restaurant Cleaning Checklist and Guide

August 26, 20210

Keeping your restaurant clean is a big job.

Implementing a restaurant cleaning checklist for daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning tasks will help keep your professional commercial kitchen thoroughly cleaned and in order. Not only will you reduce food waste, but you’ll avoid risks to your customers and staff. Have a safer, cleaner kitchen with this restaurant cleaning guide and checklist.

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Breweries & Craft Brewing, Restaurants

Most Profitable Bar Food: What to Serve at Your Brewery

August 5, 20210

What better way to bring customers through the door of your brewery than with a menu packed with the most profitable bar foods?

Are you serving food at your brewery or taproom? If there’s one thing that goes great with a few drinks, it’s some delicious prepared-in-house bar food. Keep your customers satisfied with excellent service, tasty food, and good company. Here are the most profitable bar foods to offer that will keep customers coming back for more!

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Restaurants

Keeping a Food Waste Log to Measure Food Costs

June 10, 20210

If your business is trying to find creative ways to shore up your bottom line, there’s one place you may not have considered—the dumpster.

Profit margins are always slim in the restaurant business, and 2020 was especially rough. Some restaurants did not survive, and many that did are in dire straits. Are you throwing away profits without even realizing it?

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Restaurants

Surviving Your Restaurant POS System Update

March 4, 20210

So you’re considering updating your restaurant POS (point of sale) system? There are plenty of options out there when you’re ready.

But what do you really need? How can you find the best system for your team? How do you deal with the disruption to your service in the meantime? Here’s what you need to know about surviving your restaurant POS system update—from knowing when it’s time to update, to choosing the best system, to scheduling the rollout.

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Restaurants

Beyond COVID-19: 10 Restaurant Trends that will Outlast the Pandemic

December 21, 20200

The COVID-19 pandemic is still in full force and will likely continue at this pace for the next few months.

With the announcements that vaccines are on the horizon, everyone is breathing a collective (masked) sigh of relief. We aren’t out of the woods yet, but there’s a light at the end of this tunnel. For the restaurant industry, hope can’t come soon enough. Those in the industry are working tirelessly to stay afloat, keeping patrons and staff as safe as possible. Over the last year, we’ve all learned a thing or two, and there are some restaurant trends that we will keep once this has passed.

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Restaurants

Creative Restaurants During Coronavirus: 8 Tips for the New Normal of the Restaurant Business

December 3, 20200

Since March, restaurants have had to think outside the box to keep their businesses afloat.

While it’s been an unprecedented struggle, it’s also been inspiring to see these creative restaurants during Coronavirus. Many restaurant owners have found new and innovative ways to bring in customers and keep their business steady. Here are nine lessons to help you keep your own restaurant going.

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Restaurants

Outdoor Dining in Cold Weather: 8 Ideas for the Winter

October 29, 20200

Winter is almost here, and in Wisconsin and Indiana, we all know that means frigid temperatures.

For restaurant owners who are continuing to adjust to COVID-19 restrictions, the weather will present a brand-new challenge: setting up comfortable outdoor dining in cold weather. Restaurants have already been innovative, offering to-go options, and getting creative with food service. Now it’s time to rise to the occasion and find ways of providing outdoor dining to your guests.

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Food and Beverage & Food Manufacturing, Restaurants

Can Food Trucks Survive the Coronavirus Pandemic?

October 1, 20200

Food trucks were born from a world of necessity and frugality.

Many restaurant owners realized that food trucks presented a unique opportunity—a less expensive way to expand their offerings without massively increasing their overhead. Other prospective restaurant owners saw the opportunity to use a food truck to get a solid start. From there, they could expand into a brick and mortar operation down the road. Food truck culture was popular, and they were experiencing a boom. Then Coronavirus hit. So how do food trucks survive a global pandemic?

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Restaurants

The Masked Server: Making Hospitality Happen Despite Masks in Restaurants

September 17, 20200

The last several months have been some of the toughest the restaurant industry has seen.

Staff has worked hard to weather the blows and keep customers coming in the door. Although there have been many positive steps, from focusing on increasing pickup and to-go orders to allowing dining outdoors and proper social distance, restaurant owners are still figuring out the right path in this new territory. So, how can staff create a welcome atmosphere for diners when the situation still feels daunting? How do we convey a sense of joy and hospitality when servers’ smiles are hidden behind masks?

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Restaurants

6 Guidelines for Restaurant Owners Reopening in a COVID-19 World

July 16, 20200

The Coronavirus isn’t behind us, but we see some containment and progress. Many states have given the green light for reopening restaurants amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

But with little guidance, many restauranteurs are trying to navigate as best they can. Most of us aren’t epidemiologists or public health experts, but we know we want to keep diners safe and happy. So, what are the best practices for reopening your restaurant? What do you need to know as you move forward?

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