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Do you know your food cost? In order to keep your profits and margins in line and have your prices affordable for your customers, each item on your restaurant menu should be priced to determine its food cost. (The actual amount it costs you to make the dish.) This doesn’t mean that the food items you purchase should be the cheapest accessible because quality is the most important facet of creating menu items, but you need to balance high and low food costs together in order to obtain an acceptable gross profit margin. Your menu should have an easy to read font & format. Hard to read font and too much text make it difficult for customers to read your menu. Keep your menu design simple and elude from using too much culinary terminology.

Deciding on the location of your restaurant is paramount. The suburb, street and even the district you choose for your business can have a substantial influence on its potential success. So it’s imperative to find out what’s happening in the area you’ve chosen because it needs to support your new restaurant for the years to come. Here are five key points you should consider before selecting your new restaurant or café location:

Whether in preparation for your restaurant launch, or hiring simply due to employee turnover, it’s integral to constantly manage changing staff requirements. Learn to determine which positions are paramount, how many hands make light work, and how to juggle staffing times. Seek to attain and...