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How to create a restaurant profit and loss statement

How to create a restaurant profit and loss statement

Operating a restaurant is a balancing act. There’s a ton to manage on a daily basis: serving top-notch food and beverages, managing staff, taking care of customers, tracking orders, cleaning, opening and closing your restaurant. While it’s easy to get wrapped up in the daily grind, as a restaurant owner, it’s essential to make time…

Your restaurant needs more than one digital menu – here’s why

Your restaurant needs more than one digital menu – here’s why

Your restaurant menu is your first impression. Before deciding on a place to eat or even grab a cup of coffee, consumers are checking out digital restaurant menus and planning what to order.  The trouble is… Each of these scenarios (and more) can be resolved by creating multiple digital restaurant menus and managing them all…

Everything You Need to Know Before Starting a Restaurant Gift Card Program

Everything You Need to Know Before Starting a Restaurant Gift Card Program

Restaurant gift card programs are super popular, and for good reason: both customers and restaurant owners benefit from gift cards. For customers, it’s an excellent gift to give and to receive. For restaurant owners, gift cards are a great way to promote your restaurant while increasing cash flow. In this guide, learn how gift cards…

Tips to increase sales at food truck festivals in 2023
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Tips to increase sales at food truck festivals in 2023

When you’re in the food truck business, you know how exciting it is to roll up to a festival and find hungry customers ready to try your tasty dishes. However, these kinds of gigs aren’t exactly a walk in the park…. You need a plan. Boost your food truck revenue with a comprehensive event strategy…

Why your quick-service restaurant needs a Kitchen Display System (KDS)

Why your quick-service restaurant needs a Kitchen Display System (KDS)

Your kitchen staff is working hard, preparing orders for dozens of guests in the middle of your lunch rush. Despite best efforts, they miss an order and now tickets are piling up and your guests are hangry and checking their watches. Your front of house tries to keep everyone calm while your cooks are working…

8 restaurant promotion ideas to get your local community excited

8 restaurant promotion ideas to get your local community excited

If you’re wondering how to market a restaurant, you’re not alone. It’s one of the most popular questions asked in restaurant community groups, such as On the Fly Society. Marketing is vital to your success as a business, especially a small one, but it can be overwhelming if you don’t know where to start.  That’s…

8 tips for your first year as a restaurant owner
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8 tips for your first year as a restaurant owner

You did it! You finally opened your new restaurant. Congratulations! Now what?! The first year as a new restaurant owner is both awesome and overwhelming. There’s a lot to learn on the fly as you serve more customers, hire more staff and work out all the kinks. But it’s also the perfect time to try…

7 permits and licenses you need to open a restaurant

7 permits and licenses you need to open a restaurant

You decided on a restaurant name, the menu is set, and the concept is fully baked. What else do you need to open your restaurant?  For starters, a lot of paperwork. Sure, no one loves filing paperwork with the state or tracking down licenses but they’re a necessary evil of opening and operating a restaurant….

How Five Sushi Brothers added a second location despite staffing challenges

How Five Sushi Brothers added a second location despite staffing challenges

Five Sushi Brothers is a fun, fast-casual sushi restaurant with two locations outside of Salt Lake City, UT. Started by brothers Jacob and Ammon Chung in 2016, Five Sushi Brothers began with fresh late-night sushi deliveries in Provo that practically sold themselves: the unique concept hit the spot with college kids and young professionals craving…

Thinking of opening a restaurant? Table Needs launches service to help restaurateurs establish new restaurant businesses with ease
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Thinking of opening a restaurant? Table Needs launches service to help restaurateurs establish new restaurant businesses with ease

Table Needs Inc. announces today the launch of Table Needs Filer. In partnership with Legalzoom, Table Needs Filer helps restaurateurs establish an LLC, file with their state, create operating agreements and other key business documentation required to launch a new business in just a few clicks. Opening a restaurant requires dozens of permits, licenses and…

Table Needs introduces Bookkeeper, providing comprehensive accounting services for counter service restaurants
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Table Needs introduces Bookkeeper, providing comprehensive accounting services for counter service restaurants

Table Needs, Inc. announces today the launch of Table Needs Bookkeeper, an all-in-one accounting service for restaurants, cafes, juice bars and food trucks. Offering monthly bookkeeping, tax filing services and access to professional accountants, Table Needs Bookkeeper makes it easier for owners to manage their restaurant’s finances. “One of the biggest hurdles for restaurant owners…

The Northstar for a successful restaurant business: sales per labor hour
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The Northstar for a successful restaurant business: sales per labor hour

Knowing which metrics to monitor can make or break your restaurant business. With so many ways to slice and dice data using your point of sale, there are endless options but only a few metrics are true indicators of the health of your restaurant.  In my experience as a restaurant owner, consultant, and CEO of…

What profitable restaurants know about leveraging technology
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What profitable restaurants know about leveraging technology

Restaurants are notoriously slow to adapt to new technology. It’s an industry full of “we’ve always done it this way” and “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” I get it. Generally speaking, the latest technological innovations haven’t really affected how a restaurant makes great food or how they provide great customer service.  Then came…

When to introduce restaurant loyalty programs and gift cards
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When to introduce restaurant loyalty programs and gift cards

Do you know how your current customers originally heard about your restaurant? Do you know what inspired them to try out your restaurant – and then keep coming back? One of the biggest misconceptions I hear restaurant owners talk about is where and how they attract new guests and create loyal customers. Have you seen the…

Table Needs vs the competition

Table Needs vs the competition

Why Table Needs Table Needs is a real-time, end-to-end restaurant solution, hosting menus, simplifying sales and ordering, and managing payments — both onsite and online. Designed specifically for restaurants by restaurant people, Table Needs is the comprehensive, integration-free POS your restaurant, staff and customers need. Table Needs vs the competition Table Needs POS does a…

Table Needs vs SpotOn
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Table Needs vs SpotOn

Why Table Needs Table Needs is a real-time, end-to-end restaurant solution, hosting menus, simplifying sales and ordering, and managing payments — both onsite and online. Designed specifically for restaurants by restaurant people, Table Needs is the comprehensive, integration-free POS your restaurant, staff and customers need. Table Needs vs SpotOn Table Needs POS does a lot,…