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How to Calculate and Improve Your Bar’s Profit Margin

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A bar is a profitable business option if you’re looking to enter the food industry. Start by tracking all the income your bar generates, including sales from drinks, food, and any additional services. Analyze your product mix Review the drinks and food items you sell the most and least.

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Five Ways for Restaurants to Thrive When Offices Reopen

Modern Restaurant Management

The return of high-value customers with large business orders is a big opportunity for restaurants. Many offices are requiring individual packaging for catered food and even office snacks. The majority of ezCater orders now contain individually packaged items. Use checklists to eliminate order mistakes.

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The Rise of Exclusivity: VIP vs Traditional Discounting

Modern Restaurant Management

But rapidly rising labor and food costs over recent months has heightened pressure on already tight restaurant margins. ”Menu allows Velvet Taco’s fans to earn rewards in a way that both engages and incentivizes them to order directly, instead of using bottom line-disrupting third party services. million members to 27.4

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From Ghost Kitchens to Living Kitchens: A New Vision for Food Service’s Next Great Space

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Dark kitchens or virtual kitchens––real places staffed with non-ectoplasmic people—bring efficiencies to running a restaurant by providing off-site commissary services for delivery orders. Without these pricey anchors dragging down your profitability, you just might be able to focus on making food, and not making rent.

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What Egg Shortage? At the Gudetama Cafe, It’s Business As Usual.

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The Gudetama Cafe, in Buena Park, California, is modeled after Sanrios lazy egg character (Sanrio is also the creator of Hello Kitty and other Japanese mascots that include both animals and food). Portraits of Gudetama adorn the restaurants windows and hes featured on all the merchandise.

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Is Your Ice Cream Too Cold? Lessons in Fighting Friendly Fraud

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In mid-December, a story went viral on Twitter across the pond about a customer being refunded by a food delivery service after complaining that the “four milkshakes, a cheesecake and an ice cream” they had ordered from a Manchester restaurant were “too cold”, as reported by Manchester Evening News.

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Boost Your Restaurant Business with Five Local Marketing Tips

Modern Restaurant Management

Today, examine the effects the pandemic has had on the restaurant and food service industry as well as five simple but effective marketing techniques to boost your local business. Restaurants were harder hit than most because many food related businesses weren’t ready to transition to digital services.

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