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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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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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Five Ways for Restaurants to Thrive When Offices Reopen

Modern Restaurant Management

Many offices are requiring individual packaging for catered food and even office snacks. Merchandise new take-out procedures that will make customers feel more secure — such as curbside pickup and mask and glove requirements. Disrupted supply chains may affect your menu. Reinvent Your Catering Menu. Keep Your Menu Fresh.

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How to Avoid the Top Seven Restaurant Inventory Management Mistakes

Modern Restaurant Management

Forecasting tools enable managers to purchase food, beverage, and supplies at the right level. Employees designated as receivers should be able to both recognize various quality levels of merchandise and be trained how to handle the necessary paperwork and any digital recordkeeping.

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How Walmart Got Its Hands on the Coolest Pantry Brands

EATER

Lille Allen Brands like Fly By Jing and Bachan’s are reaching a whole new audience from the shelves of the ultimate big-box store The last decade or so has been a golden era for cool food products sold directly to consumers online. It was just way too much for one person to deal with.”

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L&L Puts Aloha Spirit into Practice

Modern Restaurant Management

For example, the L&L Colorado Springs, Colorado location used a small wagon attached to a remote-controlled car to bring food from the store to the parking lot during curbside delivery, top photo. They have sent out a number of merchandising and training tools to assist in our daily operations. Elisia Flores.

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The Great Shortage

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Pandemic-related materials, food, and labor shortages make running an independent restaurant near-impossible. Even as some of these supply chain hiccups and irregularities resolved, others popped up. That is, according to the professor, particularly true of the food we eat. “[Our Here’s how three owners are doing it.