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A CPA’s Insight on Top Issues Restaurant Owners Face

Modern Restaurant Management

For restaurant owners, there are a number of issues in their workplace keeping them up at night and hindering them from successfully managing and operating their restaurant efficiently. Money and Inventory Management The profitability of a restaurant depends on the careful management of cash flow.

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Expanding Your Business? Seven Tips to Improve Cash Flow to Fund a New Location

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It is important to consider if the first location has the cash flow to help financially carry the second location for a period of time if needed. Below are seven tips to improve the cash flow and make the most out of a current location to ensure a steady stream of revenue to serve as a buffer through those first months.

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Don’t Get Burned By The IRS – Tax Tips for Restaurant Owners

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By the time you manage inventory, staffing, customer demand and narrow profit margins, the last thing you want to think about is the IRS. Restaurants, like other cash-intensive businesses, are a frequently targeted for audits by the IRS. Operating a restaurant is not easy. This allows the auditor to verify the expenses.

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Restaurants Can Fight the Bite of Chargebacks (Infographic)

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Traditionally, this has meant that the manager comes out and apologizes to the guest, then offers a discount or a comped meal. The digital era has had a huge impact on the food and beverage space. Consumers adjusted; between 2019 and 2020, online ordering for food/beverage rose by a record 93 percent. So, what changed?

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Best Practices for Trimming Alcohol Overhead in the COVID World

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Knowing that beverages offer the longest shelf life and highest margin, BevAlc is taking center stage for restaurants owners. As the world of hospitality attempts to recover from the impact of Covid-19, maintaining cash flow and slowly building up revenue are key elements to any establishment’s ability to survive.

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Steady Work: Best Restaurant Management Advice from Starbucks’ ‘Playbook’

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It’s relevant today because it helps restaurant leaders contend with enduring issues like crisis recovery, demand fluctuations, food waste, keeping the human touch, managing change, and retaining employees. In this excerpt, Gaudet describes learning how the new system would improve the work of managers, baristas, and support partners.

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What the Heck is a KPI and Why You Should Give a Sh*t

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To get you started down the KPI Mastery path, let’s start with the basic metrics: Cash Flow. Cash flow is simply the amount of money going in and out of the restaurant. It’s essentially how much cash you have on hand. Cash flow = Cash input - cash output. Allow me to help you manage your KPIs.