Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan

Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan

Restaurant management is like show-biz, and the key to a flawless production is in the details. Follow these steps to plan your work and work your plan. Make a Plan Before starting on the day’s work, create an action plan for your restaurant management tasks. Try to...
What Does Free Water Really Cost?

What Does Free Water Really Cost?

There’s no such thing as a “free” glass of water. In fact, according to industry reports, the typical glass of regular tap water can cost over a dollar per serving. How? The glass has to be ordered, inventoried, filled and washed for each guest — up go labor...
Manage Change in Your Restaurant

Manage Change in Your Restaurant

The restaurant business is like show business, which means you need to be ready for anything. From advances in technology to the competition outlook to the ever-changing demands of your customers, change could very well be the only thing we can count on in this...
Waitstaff Management: Make Your Praise Worthy

Waitstaff Management: Make Your Praise Worthy

We all know we should praise our restaurant employees, but the excuses to skip it are almost as great as those we use to blow off exercise… we’re too busy, we’re too tired and we’re not completely convinced it works. And why should we be? The last time we told Tina...