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Restaurant Menu Pricing: How to Set Prices That Boost Profits And Keep Customers

ChowNow

Menu pricing isnt just about covering costsits about finding that sweet spot where profitability, customer perception, and operational reality meet. Set prices too low, and youre leaving money on the table. Most operators aim for food costs to be around 28-35% of the menu price, though this can change from restaurant to restaurant.

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Restaurant Safety: How Restaurateurs Can Improve their Risk Profiles

Modern Restaurant Management

These issues have translated to the industry’s insurers as well – causing even more headaches for restaurant owners. The restaurant insurance market has seen rising costs to insure and as a result, carriers have come and gone from the market.

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How a Creative Cocktail Program with a Beer and Wine License Can Help Your New Restaurant Succeed

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant owners looking to purchase an existing license can face prices up to $1 million depending on demand. A beer and wine license allows restaurants to craft a unique cocktail menu featuring wine-based liquors without the need for liquor insurance or the extensive paperwork associated with a full liquor license.

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ARE INDEPENDENT RESTAURANTS PRICING THEMSELVES OUT OF THE MARKET?

Culinary Cues

Of course, running a restaurant is difficult, wholesale prices of ingredients have risen dramatically since the pandemic, labor costs are out of control, and landlords have no mercy when it comes to establishing lease arrangements. So, are we pricing ourselves out of the market? This is not a place where restaurants want to live.

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Avoiding the Four Biggest Traps of Restaurant Payroll

Modern Restaurant Management

The former are entitled to benefits such as minimum wage, overtime pay and workers’ compensation insurance. Independent contractors, meanwhile, may not get these benefits in exchange for having more freedom and control over their work, while holding responsibility for their own taxes and insurance.

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Pandemic Pivots Don’t Offset Restaurants’ Need to Manage Looming Risks

Modern Restaurant Management

In this changing environment, the right and adequate amount of insurance protection has never been more important. There’s a price for the unrelenting barrage of natural disasters, and it’s making excess liability insurance hard to find above standard liability limits.

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Staying on Top of FDD Requirements for Risk and Insurance

Modern Restaurant Management

What may be overlooked within it are risk and insurance issues. Many franchisors have dedicated staff in charge of maintaining the FDD, although tech solutions are increasingly available, offering efficient, integrated and customizable tools for managing insurance and compliance requirements. And there’s a lot of value to that.

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