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What is Menu Engineering?

By devon.barkley | October 2, 2021

It is an old yet true adage that “restaurants run on thin margins”. Every advantage that a restaurant can score itself is a point to the home team and means that margins are a little safer than they were yesterday. One lens through which cost optimization is …

Increasing A Restaurant’s Average Check

By devon.barkley | September 18, 2021

Average Check is a great metric through which to view a restaurant’s finances when trying to boost a location’s revenue. What’s more, working to increase the average check in a restaurant requires minimal monetary investment. Increasing check averages means…

How to Improve Employee Retention

By devon.barkley | September 5, 2021

There’s the growth of takeout and delivery service, menu innovation like in-app ordering, bussing your own tables, and futuristic technological innovations such as bartending robots and intelligent burger flipping machines; but employees are always going…

7 ideas for attracting and retaining employees in a post-covid-19 world

7 Ideas for Attracting and Retaining Employees in a Post-COVID-19 World

By devon.barkley | August 19, 2021

The global COVID-19 pandemic hit the restaurant industry hard. Since the beginning of the pandemic restaurants have had to contend with shutdowns, daily changes to rules and restrictions, irate customers, and supply chain worries. The pandemic hasn’t only…

Sanitation Practices for Post-COVID-19 Restaurant Operations

By devon.barkley | August 6, 2021

As vaccination rates continue to rise COVID-19 restrictions are really beginning to loosen, and, for a lot of the country’s restaurants, life has pretty much returned to normal. This isn’t, however, the “old normal”. The happenings of the past 18 months can’t…

Increase restaurant visited by loyalty programs

The Benefits of Restaurant Loyalty Programs

By devon.barkley | July 24, 2021

Since the squeeze brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic restaurant owners and managers have actively been searching for ways to increase their location’s overall profitability. There are a number of in-house undertaking, like on-location changes and…