SpotOn

DECEMBER 30, 2024

We all know it. Restaurant profit margins are pretty low. But not entirely because of inflation, labor shortages, and high food costs. Sure these make it worse, but the real reason why owners struggle to make a profit is because it's damn hard to run an efficient restaurant business. What is the average restaurant profit margin?

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Open for Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

From budgeting and licensing to crafting the perfect menu, here’s everything you need to know about how to open a restaurant. Whether it’s chic and modern or rustic and cozy, fine dining or casual, the atmosphere needs to enhance the dining experience and make it memorable for all the right reasons.

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Focus POS

JUNE 17, 2019

Good restaurant point of sale software will have the flexibility to accommodate different types of ordering (in-house, online, self-service). Improved communication between front-of-house and back-of-house will speed up service and improve customer satisfaction. Restaurant Point of Sale Software. Friendly UI and UX.

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Clover - Restaurants

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Analyzing competitor businesses may also help you fine-tune your pricing, craft a unique menu, and market your restaurant more effectively to locals or visitors. Location matters–especially in the restaurant business. An emerging restaurant needs room to grow–both physically and in terms of its customer base. Is the location visible?

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Lavu

MARCH 11, 2020

The restaurant industry has been evolving consistently over the years. From the introduction of point of sale (POS) systems to accounting systems, technology is changing the ways restaurants operate today. Some of the practices that used to be acceptable a few years ago are no longer the norm. . You may also be unsure where to start.

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OpenTable

JULY 8, 2022

Getting an attorney involved is the best way to help sort through the pros and cons of each structure, as there is no one way that works best. The business structure choose will affect the following aspects of a restaurant: The amount of taxes you will pay. The amount of flexibility you have if you sell or transfer the business. Partnerships.

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Open for Business

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You don’t have to retain a lawyer up front, but you at least need to have a consultation with an attorney to understand your options in terms of incorporation, as well as the laundry list of other things that you’ll need to consider. “You Most restaurants need funding, especially during the initial stages when they’re setting up.

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EATER

JULY 6, 2022

Blue Hill at Stone Barns’ alluring story — that a fine dining restaurant could be a model for changing the world — seduced diners, would-be employees, and thought leaders alike. But former employees say that narrative often obscured a more complicated reality. This story contains a detailed account of a sexual assault.

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EATER

AUGUST 22, 2022

If courses were inspired by something exact, the servers mentioned its scene of origin: After Catelyn Stark arrests Tyrion Lannister at an inn, she dines on onions dripping in juices, and we got the same. Before each of 10 courses, the staff explained the source or inspiration for everything that was served.

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EATER

JUNE 13, 2024

There’s Sera , with a background in fine dining, whose dinners in Los Angeles are the gold standard of pop-ups. Everyone is intertwined, whether it’s through helping out at someone’s pop-up or sharing advice on where to get the cheapest and best produce or which of LA’s restaurants are currently paying the best for back-of-house work.

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EATER

AUGUST 21, 2020

Peter Meehan’s transgressive vision helped redefine food media with the groundbreaking Lucky Peach , and later transformed the LA Times ’s food coverage. But that vision came with a toxic management style characterized by intimidation, a barrage of sexualized commentary, and explosive anger, according to two dozen current and former staffers.

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