What Makes Restaurants Sink or Swim?

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What Makes Restaurants Sink or Swim?

Citypaper Asked a Woman Who Helps Them Stay Afloat. In a city like D.C. where roughly 96 percent of restaurants are independent small businesses, many chefs double as owners and lean leadership teams run popular eateries. They don't have the same safety net as major chain enterprises or restaurant groups that can hire in-house talent to suss out traps and balance the books. Read more ... Original story on washingtoncitypaper.com Original story on miragenews.com

La creme de la creme

Culinary training facilities unveiled at Southbank. Two state of the art training kitchens have been unveiled at the TAFE Queensland Southbank campus that will provide world class culinary training for the world-renowned Le Cordon Bleu French hospitality school. Significant funding has gone to upgrading the current training facilities with two new commercial grade kitchens which can accommodate up to 16 students per class. Read more ...

How Restaurants Can Box-out Competitors and Win Market Share

Now that the brackets are finalized and the first tip-off has commenced, it's crunch time for restaurants as they work to win the hearts and minds of basketball fandom. Food and sports go hand-in-hand, so no matter which big sporting event is on the horizon, the weeks leading into and throughout the matchup are crucial for gaining market share. On average, 78 percent of spend at sports bars and grills can be attributed to current guests while 22 percent can be attributed to new customers, particularly during the last two weeks of a major college sporting event. Read more ... Original story on martechadvisor.com Original story on theforkmanager.com

11 marketing tricks to attract more customers to your restaurant

“We know that we have delicious food, but I don’t know how to attract more customers to my restaurant so that they can try it and want to come back”. This phrase must definitely be familiar to you, either because it is or has been your experience or because you have heard it from industry colleagues. And it’s because having the best food is merely one of the strategies for having full tables. TheFork constantly strive to create solutions so that restaurateurs can attract more and more customers. Today, thet have proposed these 11 methods for winning over customers in 2019. Read more ...

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