What do you need to know about running the financial side of a Restaurant/catering business?

New York Times Slams College Cafeteria

What’s The Lesson Learned From The Bennigan’s Bankruptcy?

Foodservice Industry Icon Chef Gerry Murphy

WOULD YOU LIKE SALMONELLA WITH THAT?

 

 

With Salmonella found in tomatoes, cantaloupes, peanut butter, and now jalapeño peppers, what choices and precautions do your vendors give you?   Has Salmonella affected your business directly? 

 

 

How to keep delivery drivers happy?

With gas costing over $4 a gallon, how do you handle your approach to keep delivery drivers happy for your restaurant and/or catering business?   Pay them more an hour, reimburse more per mile?

Smoking Ban!

With some states threatening and some already putting in place a smoking  ban, how do you keep people to stay at the bar and buy drinks? Do you utilize more drink specials and how? 

How to get waiters/waitresses to work in a struggling economy?

With a hard economy at the moment, how are you enticing waiters/waitresses to come take positions at your establishments?

What Will They Take From Restaurant Owners Next?

In the last several years… we’ve seen NO-SMOKING LEGISLATION… then a TRANS FAT-FREE mandate, and then a MANDATORY CALORIE POSTING…

Now there’s a movement to eliminate BOTTLED WATER!

I want your thoughts. Who is supposed to pay you for the loss of revenue from selling bottled water?!

 

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