Behind the Bar: The Benefits of Wine On Tap
A bar should be an inviting place where people want to spend their time. However, there are a lot of things restaurant and bar owners can do: offer Wi-Fi, add flat screen TV’s mounted on the walls, or even upgrade to tablets for ordering. But with all these upgrades for your patrons and their ever-increasing portable technology, why not try doing something that most of your competition isn’t doing? It’s exactly the sort of thing that will get people talking and bring in more business.
There’s a way to modernize your bar and make it business friendly, you can have wine on tap. What is wine on tap? Well, read on to find out.
How to Run a Successful Restaurant
Welcome to the restaurant business. All that blood, tears, toil and sweat finally paid off. Not only did you open your restaurant, you’ve also kept happy customers coming in the door, day after day. It’s an amazing accomplishment few people ever get to experience.
Hidden inside most goals are the first steps to the next challenge. To keep your restaurant running successfully you’re going to need a new set of skills. Most customers are more forgiving on opening night. You may have your plans mapped out and your staff drilled on the menu, but mistakes happen and routines have yet to be established.
The Pros & Cons of a Paperless Property Management Business
The truth is that many companies still rely heavily on paper. We are living in a time of major transition, finally giving way to more modern solutions. It’s not like you have to go paperless right away. There is still a lot of practicality to paper. Receipts for credit card transactions and employee and customer information are just a few aspects of everyday business that still work just fine.
How To Winterize Outdoor Machines & Equipment
It’s that time of year again. Autumn is the right time to get your outdoor machines ready for winter hibernation. Landscaping becomes less of a priority as winter approaches and it’s time to take a break from yard work. When you’re ready to store your machines, don’t just dump them and forget about them. You need to prepare them to be stored.
Image “Mower” courtesy of Flickr user Phil Roeder licensed under CC by 2.0.
If you neglect your lawn equipment, it can break down, rust, corrode or deteriorate over winter. Repairs and restoration are costly. Often, people end up buying brand new equipment to replace worn out machines because the cost of repairs and replacement parts can be as much or more than a new machine! This practice is neither sustainable nor cost-effective.
How to Reduce Housekeeping and Laundry Expenses
One of the major costs of running a hotel is with laundry. Labor costs should be calculated by taking the employees required to service a guest room and dividing that by the number of guest rooms serviced in a specific time period. Don’t forget to factor in things besides wages, like insurance and other benefits. Cleanliness is an important part of what makes guests decide to return to a room.
Occupied rooms increase laundry costs because a guest will dirty sheets, use towels and eat into your room rate depending on their occupancy length. Since these costs are more about supplies than labor, small changes to things like laundry soap or big changes like installing new washing machines can be easily controlled.
Proactive Plumbing Maintenance Tips To Prevent Common Commercial Plumbing Issues
Modern plumbing is awesome. It’s just one of those things that pretty much everyone takes for granted. It’s also one of those things we immediately realize we cannot live without once it’s not working properly.
Being proactive about your plumbing is essential to the success of your business. Plumbing problems must be addressed immediately. Water damage is far more costly than proactively hiring a plumber to fix the problem immediately.
How To: Start a Rooftop Garden
Understanding how the conversion from standard roof to rooftop garden works is the first step in making this idea become reality. Having a rooftop garden will allow for urban greenery and help you become a pioneer in the neighborhood showing suitability practices in work.
After you understand the process, your next step is to find a consulting/construction company that specializes in this type of project. Believe it or not, there are more than a few companies out there, so you’re likely to have the opportunity to shop around and find the right fit for you. Then, once you’ve designed your plan with the consultants, the upgrade can begin.
From Roof to Restaurant: Starting an On-site Restaurant Garden
Rooftop gardens are popular these days not just for residential buildings, but for commercial buildings as well. You might want to invest in a rooftop garden for your restaurant for the ease, value and for helping your bottom line.
They’re starting to pop up all over the country: restaurants that implement a multi-tiered solution to some of these environmental, community and profit margin problems. Their answer: rooftop and on premises urban gardens.
Sounds kinda radical right? Believe it or not, this green movement solution incorporates more benefits than problems, and will literally change the face of your community, your environment and of course, your business—all at the same time.
Can’t Compost? Think Again! Commercial Composting Options for Your Restaurant
Industrial waste removal services charge by how much waste they carry away—and the garbage removal costs are rising. Landfills are filling up at a steadily increasing rate as populations grow. But did you know that there are several environmentally-friendly, cost-efficient ways to reduce your food waste?
The best option may be commercial composting. Composting is an increasingly popular trend in the restaurant industry for a lot of reasons, but many restaurants are unable to compost on-site in an effective manner due to space restrictions, time and labor involved, or even due to a lack of general composting knowhow. Restaurants produce a lot of organic waste, and unless they are able compost on-site, the only other option used to be to just throw it all away.
However, most cities around the country now have a commercial composting service, which means you can compost your food waste —even if you can’t swing it on-site.
The Benefits of Composting: Turn Your Restaurant’s Waste into Profit
One of the biggest expenses every restaurant faces is consistent and proper waste removal. Did you know that in a commercial kitchen, it’s estimated that as much as 70% of all waste is made up of organic material like food scraps and soiled napkins? Many big chain restaurants literally throw it all in the garbage. Food waste, glass, paper and other recyclables all tossed away, with little consideration for the trash’s value as a resource.
Small- to medium-sized restaurants feel the local impact much more than their larger chain restaurant brothers, and simply cannot afford to operate the same way. Not only are you concerned about the community that you work in—the same community that supports you—but you recognize opportunity when you see it.
Extra food doesn’t have to be hauled away by trash collection just to decompose in a landfill somewhere. Instead, consider learning how to recycle leftover food by turning your compostable items into something that can be repurposed for the greater good.