Posts by Ben Beddow
How to Tell Customers About Online Ordering
Your digital ordering platform is all set up, integrated with your POS system, and ready to take orders and direct them straight into your kitchen! You might know that it exists, after all you’ve had the idea and have been researching options for how to take…
Read MoreHow to Set Up Online Ordering for a Restaurant
As the boundaries between the physical and the digital blur, brick-and-mortar businesses are finding that setting up an online presence for their venue is crucial to their future success. For restaurants in particular this trend was accelerated by the…
Read MoreDefining and Reducing Shrinkage
Food and beverage costs are one of the most variable, and one of the most manageable, costs in a restaurant. Shrinkage is a factor in the production and distribution of all goods that is practically impossible to fully eliminate, especially when dealing with…
Read MoreGetting Guest Recovery Right (The LEARN Method of Guest Recovery)
The ultimate goal of every restaurant is to satisfy and exceed the expectations of every single guest that walks through the door, turning them into loyal and returning patrons in the process. Such a level of perfection is an unrealistic goal, because, no…
Read MoreWhy We Built an Online Ordering Solution for Restaurants
After years of existence, online ordering for restaurants is still a rapidly evolving segment of the restaurant industry. It provides convenience for customers (who now expect restaurants to offer online ordering), an additional and upward trending revenue stream…
Read More9 Labor Cost Reducing Tactics
Labor costs are one part of a restaurant’s prime costs, and prime costs are responsible for over half of a restaurant’s overall costs. Restaurant labor costs are one the most controllable costs for a location, and the results of properly managing a restaurant’s…
Read More6 Ways to Grow Your Restaurant’s Online Food Delivery Orders
It is well known fact that online food delivery has been booming since the spring of 2020. Here are a few nuggets of knowledge that provide an excellent overview of the current and future of the online food ordering and delivery market: Over half of adults now…
Read More4 Factors of Successful Restaurant Promotions
A restaurant’s marketing budget is generally expected to equate to 3-6% of its total sales. This varies depending on multiple factors including, but not limited to: location, competition, business volume, and cash flow. This marketing budget expectation is…
Read MoreTraining Staff On Menu Knowledge
All too often, in restaurants across the country, a server or bartender heads to the kitchen to ask the chef a brazenly simple question that, all in all, they should know the answer to. These members of staff represent the location to its guests’ and it is…
Read MorePrepare Your Restaurant for 2022 with These Restaurant Digital Marketing Tips
Restaurant marketing trends ebb and flow but the importance of digital marketing for restaurants in the 21st century cannot be understated. In today’s world an online presence is essential for a restaurant to sustain its business and to continue to attract…
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