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Family-based restaurants need strong financial planning

Family-owned businesses possess many strengths, such as their ability to look at the long-term development of their operation and align interests between management and owner. This is especially true of…

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Menu engineering: beyond the math to digital restaurant menus

Menu engineering, the process restaurateurs use to analyze the cost and popularity of menu items and adjust pricing to maximize profitability, is more important than ever for Canada’s foodservice operators. …

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Hiring restaurant employees: Make the most of retention and hiring strategies during the pandemic

The perennial challenge of staffing in the labour-intensive foodservice industry has only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Widespread staffing shortages as restaurants reopen, coupled with serious financial losses due…

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Take steps now to make your restaurant staff feel safe

It’s a fact. Restaurants across Canada are on the brink of reopening, whether to patio dining, in-restaurant meals, or both. Diners are understandably excited to return to their favourite culinary…

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Digital smarts for the independent restaurant operator

In our increasingly digital age, it’s important for your restaurant to have a website. It’s become even more so in light of pandemic restrictions and consumer hesitancy about dining out.…

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Top 10 pitfalls to avoid when opening a new restaurant

Opening a new restaurant requires good decision-making, the kind of decision-making critical to avoiding pitfalls along the way. Here are some of the most common missteps new owners make when…

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Restaurant washroom: does your washroom pass the ick test?

Eating out is a whole body and mind experience. Sure, the food brings in the diners, but the experience continues in places you might not normally consider, such as behind…

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Restaurant reopening: get ready for the big ramp up

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, 800,000 Canadian foodservice workers were laid off or had their hours cut down to zero. Across the country, employment in the industry dropped…

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Help your at-home guests celebrate the holidays in style

Home for the holidays? That’s a fact for many Canadians who are still grounded by COVID-19. But that doesn’t mean celebrating the festive season has to be a bust —…

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The eyes have it – how do servers communicate behind the mask?

How are servers — and other restaurant staff — connecting with guests now that they have to wear face masks and avoid contact? And how do guests know when servers…

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Family-based restaurants need strong financial planning

Menu engineering: beyond the math to digital restaurant menus

Hiring restaurant employees: Make the most of retention and hiring strategies during the pandemic

Take steps now to make your restaurant staff feel safe

Digital smarts for the independent restaurant operator

Top 10 pitfalls to avoid when opening a new restaurant

Restaurant washroom: does your washroom pass the ick test?

Restaurant reopening: get ready for the big ramp up

Help your at-home guests celebrate the holidays in style

The eyes have it – how do servers communicate behind the mask?

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