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5 Features Your Restaurant’s Website Needs to Have

June 1, 2016 Restaurant Website
In 2016, document.write(""); it’s rare to find a customer who walks into your establishmentby just stumbling across your eatery or bar. With the technology that each one of us carries around daily in the form of a smartphone, in less than 1 minute a potential customer can visit your website, skim through your menu, and [...] Read On

Franchises Fight Back Against Minimum Wage

April 27, 2016 Fast Food Restaurants
In June of 2014, document.write(""); Seattle became the first major city in the United States to raise their minimum wage, incrementally, to $15 by 2017 for businesses with at least five hundred employees. This wage increase, more than double the federal minimum wage of $7.25, has lead the International Franchise Associate to turn to the [...] Read On

4 Ways to Fill Your Restaurant in a Construction Zone

April 11, 2016 Tips For Restaurant Business
Whether your restaurant is in a strip mall, document.write(""); a free-standing location, or in a plaza, the sight of construction is often more than enough to keep prospective patrons driving on by. Depending on the extent of the construction, those ugly scaffolds and construction materials may be right outside your front door for weeks or [...] Read On

Preparing for Heavy-Drinking Holidays at Your Establishment

March 28, 2016 Tips For Restaurant Business
Holidays tend to mean heavy drinking, document.write(""); and as a restaurant or bar owner, it’s inevitable that you’ll encounter a patron or two who has had one too many drinks. Those who have over-indulged in alcohol can often bring along unwanted trouble, such as fights, property damage, and legal liabilities for over-serving. To protect yourself [...] Read On

Make the Most of Holidays at Your Restaurant or Bar

March 23, 2016 Tips For Restaurant Business
Even though St. Patrick’s Day has passed, document.write(""); it is an excellent example for making the most out of any upcoming holiday.  For example, St. Patrick’s Day has evolved from just one day of the year, to a two week long spectacle of green-clad, over-indulging, honorary Irishmen. The National Retail Federation estimates that more than [...] Read On

A New Look for Franchises

February 25, 2016 Fast Food Restaurants
A New Look for Franchises? In August of 2015, document.write(""); the National Labor Relations Board ruled in favor of Browning-Ferris Industries that a small business franchisee could be considered a “joint employer” with the franchisor company that lends its brand name and marketing to the small business. Traditionally, franchisors, by law, did not directly employ [...] Read On

Missouri Floods: How Would Your Restaurant Handle Them?

February 18, 2016 Fast Food Restaurants
One part of nature that is almost impossible to prepare for is water. It can’t be shoveled, document.write(""); removed, or stopped from filling every crevasse, crack and open space it encounters. At the end of December of 2015, the state of Missouri encountered usually high wintertime rainfall, of over 14 inches, that lead to historic [...] Read On

New Millennium Insurance Claims

February 3, 2016 News
Do you have the proper coverage to protect you from "new millennium" claims? The new year is a perfect time to think about protecting one of your major assets - your business. In today's world, document.write(""); claims other than the traditional fire, theft, and slip and falls are becoming commonplace. Employment Practices Liability Insurance provides [...] Read On

5 Tips to Prepare Your Restaurant Business for 2016

January 19, 2016 Tips For Restaurant Business

5 Tips to Prepare Your Restaurant Business for 2016 As the New Year begins to unfold, it’s important for restaurant owners to take a good, hard, look at how their restaurant performed in 2015. Identifying areas where the restaurant had great success, like hiring new staff, running certain specials, or opening a new location, allows […]

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Boost Your Profits with Appetizers and Desserts

January 12, 2016 Fast Food Restaurants

Boost Your Profits with Appetizers and Desserts While many diners are in “dine and dash” mode whenever they go out to eat, there is still a large segment of restaurant guests who enjoy ordering a first course and/or a last course. Restaurants of all shapes and sizes often overlook appetizers and desserts, and will throw […]

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