Happy hour menu ideas for your restaurant
There’s nothing like kicking back and relaxing with a cheap drink after a hard day’s work. As most people have returned to in-person activities, the demand for happy hour has risen. Whether you offer a nice selection of wines or are known for your fun cocktails, featuring happy hour discounts is a sure way to get more customers to place an order. It’s 5 o’clock somewhere, right? When you’re looking for ways to maximize restaurant revenue, happy hour is a cost-effective option — you can start with just a few fun menu ideas and your regularly scheduled staff. This classic…
How To Make a Restaurant Schedule
Restaurant scheduling is both an art and a science — it must simultaneously serve the business, satisfy customer demand, and account for employees’ needs. Given the complex factors involved, it’s safe to expect a certain amount of trial and error. Stick with it and you can create a workable restaurant schedule that keeps operations running smoothly and efficiently. Why is restaurant scheduling important? Restaurant scheduling creates the framework for your operations. A predictable schedule makes it easier to assign duties, plan deliveries and ensure busy shifts are adequately staffed. It also helps you spread out the workload, ensuring every employee…
How To Prevent Cross Contamination at Your Restaurant
When you’re running a restaurant, food safety is a top priority. Proper food handling and storage, combined with strict cleaning procedures, can prevent cross-contamination and reduce the risk of food-borne illnesses. What is cross contamination? Food cross contamination occurs when unsafe bacteria are transferred from one type of food to another. If someone eats cross-contaminated food that’s not properly cooked, it can cause food poisoning and other health conditions. Typically, contamination occurs as a result of incorrect food-handling procedures — chopping raw chicken and vegetables on the same cutting board without cleaning it, for example. Certain foods present a high…/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/dmn/AGPQSNCM4ZCQVPB7OWA6NP4WFA.jpg "McKinney’s Denizen Hotel eyes summer groundbreaking")
McKinney’s Denizen Hotel eyes summer groundbreaking
Developers working for more than a year on a new McKinney hotel hope to break ground on the project in the coming months. The Denizon Hotel is planned on State Highway 121 at Alma Road in the huge Craig Ranch development. Archstreet Hotel Partners will build the more than 100-room hotel as part of the mixed-use District 121 project. The almost 20-acre development also includes a new office building plus restaurant and retail space. The four-story hotel building is expected to cost about $20 million. Read more D-FW commercial real estate stories “We hope to start work this summer and…
How Restaurants Should Be Using Sustainable Food Containers
As younger, environmentally conscious diners become a majority of the food-industry customer base, many restaurants are making sustainability a top priority. To-go containers are a key focus — disposable packaging is a significant contributor to commercial waste. The right sustainable products can help you protect the environment while maintaining food quality. Why sustainability matters Increasing restaurant sustainability is one way to reduce your impact on the environment, especially when it comes to takeout containers. According to the EPA, containers and packaging are responsible for more than 23% of all the trash that goes to landfills in the United States. By…
How to control your food expenses
alone — the rising price of food is one of the biggest challenges for restaurant owners in 2023. While costs are always subject to fluctuation, this year brings a perfect storm of economic forces. Inflation, persistent supply chain disruptions, and a possible recession are driving increases of 10% or more across the board. By finding ways to control costs, you can maintain a positive cash flow and protect your bottom line. What impacts the cost of food? The global food market is complex and interconnected, which means an incident across the world can have a significant impact on your restaurant’s…
March game day promotion ideas for your restaurant
The college basketball tournament is coming. 67 games, 179,560 heart-wrenching, bracket-busting, Cinderella-storytelling minutes of action – and your restaurant can’t miss a single one. With over 10 million people tuning in for each basketball game in 2022 there are endless opportunities to score big this March. Use these tips on how to grow your business, along with Grubhub, to conveniently offer the delicious food, tasty snacks, refreshing drinks and other essentials your hungry diners need to enjoy every minute of the mania. How to capture more customers on game days While the college basketball teams battle it out all month…