Restaurant Online Ordering - An Overview of iMenu360 and PocketsOnline

Restaurant Online Ordering - An Overview of iMenu360 and PocketsOnline

Listen to the interview here: If you’re using Internet Explorer, you might have to click the Play Arrow twice. Flash player must also be installed. IMPORTANT OFFER: If you choose iMenu360 as your restaurant internet ordering system, be sure to mention ‘Restaurant Revolution’ to receive 50% off your setup fee, three full months of our customer-attraction service, [...]

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Food And Menu Pricing For Your Restaurant

Food And Menu Pricing For Your Restaurant

One thing I’ll never forgive formal culinary schools for, is teaching new impressionable would-be chefs to use a budgeted cost percentage to price food menus. Chain restaurants share an equal responsibility for perpetuating this bad practice by focusing their managers on food cost percentages without letting them in on the secret that the cost percentage [...]

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Restaurant Coaching and Consultations, Good Idea?

Restaurant Coaching and Consultations, Good Idea?

Every business owner or manager will arrive at a place where they have questions without answers. When that time comes, we seek help outside ourselves. This is often with friends and peers – other business owners in many cases. But when the amount of attention and knowledge required becomes extensive, it may be time to hire [...]

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Restaurant Customer Service That Rocks

Restaurant Customer Service That Rocks

What makes a twelve-dollar hamburger worth twelve dollars? Hint: It’s not just the Certified Angus Beef. To differentiate yourself in the restaurant business—and make that burger worth the price—you have to be innovative, creative, irreverent and unpredictable. At least that’s what works at Hard Rock Café, where customers don’t just pay for those twelve-dollar burgers, they line [...]

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Rock, Roll & Retention: The Power of Music to Engage Employees

Rock, Roll & Retention: The Power of Music to Engage Employees

Music can inspire, sooth, motivate, energize and activate the human mind. People everywhere love to listen, shake, rattle, rock, roll, twist, cry, jump, rap, bump, slam, disco, waltz, polka, relax, sleep and even learn to a variety of recorded sounds. Bringing my passion of music to training was a natural progression for me. The strategic use [...]

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Stuff4Restaurants - A Superior Advertising Reference

Stuff4Restaurants - A Superior Advertising Reference

Lindsay over at Stuff4Restaurants has been compiling ads and promotions from all over the world and is sharing them for free on his blog: Stuff4Restaurants.com Granted, he finds some VERY wacky “stuff”, as well as the crude and bizarre, but he never ceases to entertain. Make sure to check it out, bookmark it, and visit often.

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Restaurant Marketing, Coupons And The Economy

Restaurant Marketing, Coupons And The Economy

If there’s a perfect time to introduce coupons to your marketing, it’s during an economic downturn. CouponCuisine has tracked search engine statistics of people looking for coupons for over a year. In the past four months (since February 2008) we have seen a 325% increase in related traffic. Restaurants that normally don’t use limited time offers, [...]

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