12 Months of Delicious Seasonal Beer & Food Pairings
Want to spice up the seasonal beer game at your brewery? These stellar food and brew pairing options will keep your customers coming back for more. A top-notch seasonal beer selection is a fun way to attract new customers and keep your regulars happy. The best part about seasonal beer? The unique flavors often pair […]
How to Add Year-Round Outdoor Dining to Your Restaurant
Most restaurants have some unused space on their grounds that can be considered for outdoor seating. Imagine if you’re able to utilize the spaces around you. Whether an empty lot or a courtyard out front, converting these areas into extra seating just takes a few sturdy tables and chairs for those great sunny day experiences. You might think the summer is the only time outdoor seating is useful, but those days of hope in the spring and last gasps of summer can still bring in customers and their dollars if you have a space ready to use.
Modern designs have expanded beyond patios to include rooftops, backyard-style areas and gardens where fresh ingredients are grown daily. People watching from a busy sidewalk provides an excellent outdoor experience, but being nestled away in the fresh air also has its appeal. People come to restaurants with a desire to explore and discover. A hidden patio surrounded by tall fences appeals to this desire, giving a sense to your customers that you’re not just offering great food but also a hidden world to complete their dining experience.
Perfecting Your Restaurant’s Online Ordering System
People buy everything online these days and ordering dinner is no different. Many franchise restaurants have nationwide systems that allow customers to order food via computer or smartphone to be delivered hot and fresh whenever the customer arrives for pickup. GrubHub offers small restaurants a chance to get online. Web presence is important to gaining new customers. GrubHub is known to food lovers who might give your place a whirl just because they love GrubHub.
Restaurants looking for an all-inclusive approach may want to consider Olo. Olo handles all the important parts of ordering online, available on an open platform and from on every device. They handle payment with major credit cards. They manage the menu and automatically remove items that are no longer available. Finally, the service provides analytics and data so you can track purchases. This choice is a bit more involved, but restaurants that want to appeal to younger customers will be at an advantage by allowing them to order from smartphones as easily as from their computers.
Preparing to Sell Your Restaurant – What You Should Know
There are many reasons why someone would want to sell a restaurant. Someone could fall ill. Burnout occurs from all those 16-hour days some restaurant owners put in. Economic conditions can change like the weather; eating out is seen as a luxury and is often first on the cutting block when families feel the need to tighten their budgets.
Deciding to sell isn’t always because something went wrong with the business. Sometimes owners get bored once they’ve successfully launched a restaurant and want to see if they can do it again. A restaurant that makes money might get sold to provide capital for an even bigger restaurant or other business venture. Selling your restaurant doesn’t mean you’re out of the business; it just means you’re changing things up and/or taking your life in a new direction.
The Importance of In-House Restaurants To Hotel Profits
Many travelers want to taste the unique and local cuisines your city has to offer. Breakfast may be the most popular choice for hotel guests, but your restaurant should be there to lure them back for lunch and dinner. For room service, you should try to cater to you town’s specific strengths and try for convenience as well–this way, you can try to assume a guest wants at the end of the day either something that is familiar or something that is local to the area. Your restaurant can be seen as a gateway for your clients to explore the city.
Take the opportunity to partner with local businesses to provide locally sourced ingredients, or even breweries to provide craft brews. These partnerships encourage clients to spend more money with you but also turn your staff into local experts and guides to your area. If your staff sends guests to local businesses, those businesses will recommend your hotel when they have people coming in from out of town.
How To Keep Food Poisoning Out of Your Restaurant
The Health Department enacts strict cleanliness and safety guidelines for a reason. It can be easy to make mistakes or cut corners during a busy rush, but that’s the time when sticking to the right way to do things matters most. Food poisoning occurs when contaminated substances come in contact with food going out to customers. It might be from an employee using food that should be treated as waste. It might be because an employee doesn’t properly wash their hands.
Another cause of food poisoning comes from one of the harsh realities of the restaurant business: sometimes, staff comes to work feeling sick. Sick employees can spread their illness to other staff, increasing the likelihood of customers interacting with a sick employee. It may cause some stress in the kitchen because you’re short staffed, but the more ways you remove food poisoning risks and contamination risks, the better things will be for your restaurant in the long run.
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.
Soundproofing: Be the Architect of Your Soundscape
Having neighbors and coworkers, you realize people make noise. You can spend your time hoping that your neighbors are quiet people (or at least considerate enough to know when to not make so much noise), but as with all things in life: there are no guarantees.
This is why soundproofing your apartment or hotel rooms is so important. Paper-thin walls mean that you can’t charge as much in rent. Noisy people will keep neighboring guests up at night, making them unhappy with their stay and unlikely to rent a room from you in the future. Maybe you own a restaurant and it seems like the office workers above your establishment are always noisily rearranging their furniture.
No matter what the cause, it goes without saying that people are happier when other people aren’t disrupting their world with noise pollution.