Failure In The Restaurant Industry Occurs In The First Year If you don’t do the right things during the startup of your restaurant you will most likely fail during your first year. I know the most common pitfalls and mistakes of beginners in the hospitality industry. I decided to share my learned lessons and to help future restaurant owners how to … Read More
Learn Seven Steps To A Successful Restaurant Startup This online course cuts through the confusion and introduces a step-by-step way for starting a new restaurant. You’re going to have tasks, activities, and worksheets that will show you where to begin, what to do, when to do it and how to do it. Not only will you get tools and resources … Read More
When Considering A Restaurant Theme, You Need To Know Your Target Customer Theme restaurants combine entertainment with food. The ambiance, decor, menu, lighting, the servers dress, and music, etc. they all provide a dining experience. When knowing who your target audience is the more of an impact, you’ll make on them. You need to gain a deep understanding of who you’re … Read More
Restaurants Are For the People, Run By People & About the People Try to remember that you may own your restaurant, but so does your customer. You work for your customers because if you do not satisfy them, your competitors will. Once you understand that you work for the customer, you will also realize you work for your employees too. … Read More
Ford’s Garage St Pete is conveniently located on 1st Street South, just one block south of Central and under ten minutes from where I live! I noticed a review in the dining out section in a local magazine, St. Pete Life. I had written about this themed restaurant back in 2015 after friends had dined in one. They said it was … Read More
The Stinking Rose A Garlic Restaurant A restaurant name is as important as deciding what type of cuisine you are going to serve. It may reflect your restaurant’s theme, its location or simply be a play on words. The name becomes part of the restaurant’s identity and personality. The important thing to consider when choosing a restaurant name is the impression it … Read More
Location is one of the biggest factors that determine your restaurants success. But before you start searching for a location here are two other tasks you must do. First-Choosing Your Cuisine Type You must decide your cuisine type, and be sure there is enough of an audience/ customers base that desire the food you’ll be preparing and serving. Second-Identifying Your Ideal … Read More
Eating out has become a form of entertainment! Theme restaurants draw people in; not just for the food but also for the atmosphere, you offer your guests. Cuisine & Theme They can be the winning combination why people choose to go to your restaurant and not your competition. The theme not only influences the food but the architecture, music, and … Read More
Restaurants Leveraging All 5 Senses of Their Guests Increase Sales Restaurants that leverage all five senses of their guests significantly increase the odds of connecting to their appetites and disposable income. It seems most restaurateurs naturally focus on sight and taste, primarily caring about how it looks and the flavor of their food. But what many don’t realize is that … Read More
When a former employee of mine decided to become a cafe owner, she immediately called upon me to mentor her I not only accepted, I also agreed to work side by side with her for one year at a fee we decided on. I knew it would be a great experience and she also was my right-hand person at the … Read More