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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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Restaurant Accounting: A Comprehensive Guide

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By tracking metrics like customer retention and employee turnover rate, contribution margin, and menu item profitability, restaurant managers can identify each area’s strengths and what areas need improvement. Use this data to establish clear and specific goals and adjust your strategies as needed.

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The Ultimate Guide to Getting a Restaurant Business Loan

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Management Team : document your team and why they have the experience and expertise to make your restaurant a success. Include 5-year financial projections including an income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement showing that your restaurant will be able to repay any loans with interest out of operating profits.

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How to Read a Restaurant Profit and Loss (P&L) Statements

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Running a restaurant is not just about serving great food; it’s also about managing finances. Manage cash flow effectively By tracking peak sales periods, you can have enough cash on hand to cover expenses and avoid disruptions.

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Why the Stop Loss Decision is Critical for Larger Self-Funded Employers

Modern Restaurant Management

Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. Stop Loss Coverage Is Risk Management. On a basic level, stop loss insurance provides protection against catastrophic or unpredictable losses. a lower deductible).

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The Ultimate Guide to Restaurant Costs

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But the challenges don’t stop there—once open you have to focus on improving processes, managing labor schedules, and controlling restaurant costs. Not only do you have to manage many costs including, labor, equipment, and food—but you have to do it while dealing with inevitable price increases. This is only a guideline.

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IN CHALLENGING TIMES DON’T MAKE CLASSIC BUSINESS MISTAKES REMEMBER THE TOP ELEVEN

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As owners, managers, and chefs – regardless of the hours that you invested in the job in the past, this is not the time to back off – this is the time to be even more present. All of this still counts! Don’t let your edge slip away. BE PRESENT. This is the time to up your game! INVEST IN TRAINING.