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What Can Go Wrong in the Restaurant Business?

The bottom line is that setting up a new restaurant is a risk. All businesses are a risk, of course, but a disproportionately large number of restaurants go...

Start Up on Your Own or With a Partner?

Much as you can gain a great deal of support – not to mention a shared load in terms of risk, stress and ideas – when you go into business with a partner...

Negotiate Prices with Suppliers

However passionate you are about running a restaurant – don’t forget that you are trying to make money. Unless you are loaded and are simply running a re...

Is There a Right Time to Open a Restaurant?

Just as there are certainly bad time to open a restaurant – Christmas Eve, the middle of a recession and the first day of the World Cup spring to mind –...

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Affordable Ways to Make Your Festive Menu Appealing

It’s no longer a foregone conclusion that every restaurant will be packed out throughout the festive season. With the economy still in a precarious positio...

New Ways to Encourage Repeat Restaurant Business

While you must never lose sight of the importance of good food and good service, there are all manner of ways to encourage repeat business to your restaurant...

Should You Include Dietary Information on Your Menu?

There is a growing trend for restaurants and fast food outlets to provide nutritional information on their menus, with many of the country’s biggest names...

Would You Benefit from a More High Profile Chef?

Having a high profile chef can certainly make a big difference to your restaurant, but it is not necessarily the case that having a chef without a ‘known n...

Understanding Portion Control

Understanding portion control is one of the most important aspects of running a restaurant. It can impact on so many areas of your business that it would be...

How to Establish Repeat Business

It is all well and good concentrating on new business, but the successful restaurant will make sure it builds repeat business from loyal customers. Many a re...

Should You Change the Name of Your Restaurant?

Changing the name of your restaurant is not a decision to be taken lightly, but it can certainly give your business a boost if you do it for the right reason...

How to Write Your Menu to Boost Sales

How you write your menu makes an enormous difference to your gross profit. Just think about foodie magazines and television shows – the reason why the chef...

Retraining Helped Me to Cut Costs

Although it can be tempting to do everything yourself when you start your own business, it is good to learn how to delegate in order to grow your business ef...

How We Handled the Recession

With pretty much all industries experiencing difficulties as a result of the global economic downturn, it is no surprise that the restaurant industry has bee...

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