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How to Manage Cash Flow During Restaurant Restrictions

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Tracking and understanding your restaurant’s cash flow is essential, whether business is booming, or times are tough. A healthy, positive cash flow is necessary to pay your bills and grow sales. Monitoring your cash flow is more important than ever during the COVID-19 outbreak. How to calculate restaurant cash flow.

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Guest Blog: It’s Time to Bring Your Alcohol Management into the 21st Century

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From cloud-based POS systems to mobile apps designed to improve employee satisfaction and streamline scheduling, technology is bettering business and changing the landscape of restaurant management. So why is it that alcohol management is lagging? The problem with outdated alcohol management.

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IT’S TIME FOR RESTAURANTS TO PLANT THE SEEDS AND HARVEST THE TALENT

Culinary Cues

This is defined in articles from local newspapers to the New York Times, from industry magazines and websites to social media, and from industry blogs to podcasts by the dozens – everyone states the problem, points a finger, and portrays the issue as someone else’s doing. So, first step – let’s refer to it as a challenge.

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TWENTY COMMON MISTAKES INDEPENDENT RESTAURATEURS MAKE

Culinary Cues

Every business requires controls in pricing, consistency, quality, and cash handling. All of the tools are available for inventory control, purchasing systems, cash handling, costing templates, and quality assessment. Social media is very inexpensive, but someone needs to effectively manage it every day and every way.

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The true cost of POS systems for restaurants

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These prices normally include hardware such as your mobile card reader or point of sale system as well as software services, including restaurant operations and staff management features. POS software can also include inventory management to control restaurant food waste , online ordering for restaurant features, and more.

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THE BEST PATH TO CHEFDOM

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Each of those “departments” will require some level of unique kitchen management (sous chef) and specialists to support the uniqueness of function. As long as the checkbook has a credit balance they are in good shape (until predictable sales slump and cash flow turns the corner).

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THE RESTAURANT ECO-SYSTEM NEEDS HELP

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There are short-term band aid solutions such as takeout, delivery, or even conversion into retail markets where wine inventories and local necessities take over space once occupied by diners, but they are not a replacement for a steady turn of tables. Even the best operators are at a loss for solutions.

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