Articles Index
Daily Business Review for Restaurants
Daily Business Review for Restaurants is great for tracking sales, payroll, food cost and invetory.
Restaurant Refrigeration
All about restaurant refrigeration, including coolers, walk-ins and freezers for your commercial kitchen equipment needs.
Restaurant How –To Guides
Here are step-by-step guides that outline every aspect of opening and managing a restaurant. Find everything you need to write a restaurant business plan, purchase commercial equipment and market your new restaurant.
Ten Reasons Restaurants Should Buy Local Foods
More and restaurants are turning to their local neighbors for fresh, flavorful foods. Local foods are finding their way to all kinds of different restaurants, from fine dining to casual sandwich shops. Here are ten reasons your restaurant can benefit from buying local foods.
Restaurant Menus
A restaurant menu is a showcase for a restaurant’s signature dishes, reflecting the theme, ambiance and style of a restaurant. Restaurant menus can be very formal or very casual.
Guide to Restaurant Customer Service
How to Restaurants Can Give Great Customer Service, from showing customer appreciation to how to handle drunk customers and customer complaints.
Restaurant Kitchens
The kitchen is command central of any restaurant. It is where food gets delivered, prepped, cooked and plated before being served to customers. Read on to learn all the basics of designing, stocking and maintaining a smooth running restaurant kitchen.
Basics of Staffing a Restaurant
How to hire for a new restaurant, including chefs, bartenders, front of the house and other back of the house positions.
Restaurant Legal Basics
all about opening a restaurant and insurance, liqour licenses, and other legal areas new restaurant owners should know about.
How to Write a Restaurant Employee Manual
How to write a restaurant employee manual for new servers, kitchen staff and bartenders. Be sure to include food safety, harassment and job policies.
Five Tips for Surviving the Restaurant Recession
Restaurants can reduce waste, write new menus, and advertise to help stay in business during the recession.
Restaurant Buffet
Restaurant buffets are one type of restaurant concept that includes self service and catering services. If you are opening a new restaurant, you can offer a buffet for special occasions or as a restaurant promotion.
Restaurant Tablecloths
When opening a new restaurant do you want to buy restaurant tablecloths? Restaurant linen is an easy way to dress up a restaurant dining room, but they can cost a lot to take care of.
Restaurant Book Reviews
Guide review of Running a restaurant for dummies, how to open and run a successful restaurant by christopher Egerton-thomas
Restaurant Booths
If you planning to open a new restaurant, booths offer great restaurant seating and fit with any restaurant design.
Ten Reasons Restaurants Fail
Ten reasons that restaurants fail within the first three years, including high payroll, taxes, food cost and bad locations.
The Basics of Restaurant Tipping
Differnces between restaurant tipping, gratuity and service charges. How bad tips hurt the whole restaurant, not just the servers.
How to Buy Resturant Dishes
Today’s restaurant dishware is far more than just functional. Commercial dishes add personality to restaurant table settings, reflecting the ambience, design and theme of a restaurant.
Restaurant Seating
How to choose restaurant seating for a new restaurant. Consider the design of your restaurant, size of the dining room and your budget when choosing restaurant seating.
Guide to Restaurant Catering
Guide to all aspects of restaurant catering, including how to write and price a catering menu, catering equipment checklists and catering on and off premise.
10 Restaurant Tips
Ten tips for opening a new restaurant, from choosing a restaurant name to buying the right kind of commerical kitchen equipment.
Five Tips For Stocking Your Restaurant
Tips for buying or leasing restaurant equipment.
Restaurant Design
How to design a restaurant and blance seating capacity with a welcoming ambience. Problem areas like tables near restrooms can be hidden with simple steps.
Should You Take Restaurant Reservations?
Should your restaurant take reservations? Restaurant reservations make it easier to control staffing and cooking times. However, restaurant reservations also run the risk of alienating customers.
Restauranting FAQs
Questions commonly asked when opening a new restaurant, such as how to get a business loan, what type of restaurant equipment to buy and how to choose a restaurant location and restaurant name.