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How to Calculate and Improve Your Bar’s Profit Margin

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Review your operating expenses such as utilities, cleaning supplies, and staff scheduling as well. Consider selling food or merchandise If you aren’t doing it yet, consider selling food or merchandise to increase your bar's profit margin and create new streams of revenue.

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Five Ways for Restaurants to Thrive When Offices Reopen

Modern Restaurant Management

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. People can’t order from you if they can’t find you, so be everywhere including social media, Google Maps, and third-party marketplaces.

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Boost Your Restaurant Business with Five Local Marketing Tips

Modern Restaurant Management

With costs such as rent, food supplies and salaries, it’s no wonder a lot of restaurants doubt they’ll be able to bounce back. By doing so, you can ensure that your restaurant has a steady supply of customers from your community who can keep you in the black. Highlight Your Safety and Hygiene Protocols.

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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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5 Reasons NOT to Order Restaurant Supplies from Cheetah

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COVID-19, supply chain issues and rising food prices have placed the future of major broadliners at risk. Heck, it might even feel good to know you’re a small cog in the food supply machine. To order supplies from Cheetah, you don’t need to get through a long phone call. Reading Time: 4 minutes. We do the opposite.

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8 Tips for Selling Merchandise at Your Coffee Shop

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Coffee shops have a unique customer base that stands and waits patiently (we hope) for their lattes—and not selling merchandise is a lost business opportunity. Those minutes could be spent checking out your café’s merchandise instead of idly scrolling through Instagram feeds. How to Merchandise a Café. Travel Mugs.

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L&L Puts Aloha Spirit into Practice

Modern Restaurant Management

L&L also offers a decentralized supply chain with major distribution partners, and franchisees can purchase their main proteins from local sources. They have sent out a number of merchandising and training tools to assist in our daily operations. " Yee said, that while every aspect of our operation has been impacted.,