Restaurant budgeting 101 is a great place to start when it comes to trying to figure out your restaurant’s numbers. I’ve never wavered that the two most important systems any restaurant should have are budgets and recipe costing cards. Why? Because they're critical to your success....
Restaurant labor cost 101 is a plan for any restaurant owner who wants to solve the end-of-the-week panic when you check your labor cost on your POS system and see that it’s too high, so you whip yourself into a panic and start cutting staff on your two busiest days. The problem with this...
Let’s talk about how to get the most out of your management team instead of enabling them to do the minimum. In this episode of my podcast, The Restaurant Prosperity Formula, I want to share with you the three lessons you must teach your managers and supervisors that empower them to do...
What if I told you you were asking the wrong question when you're searching for the food cost formula to find your target for your independent restaurant? If you want to know where your food cost should be to make money, I want to teach you the right question to ask and the best way to answer it....
I know a thing or two about restaurant startup mistakes and what I see most often in independents. If you're wondering if you made them when getting your restaurant open or if you’re looking to open your first restaurant and want to avoid them, this tip is for you.
Owning and running a...
Let's talk about the massive increase in restaurant sales that is coming for every restaurant along with the quickest path to prepare for it. As vaccine shots go into more arms and restrictions are lifted in more cities and states, everyone who has been abiding by the stay-home recommendations is...
As a restaurant owner, are you afraid of your numbers? Do you look at your profit and loss statement only to see if you made or lost money the past month? Do you struggle actually knowing what goes into each line item? Well, you're in the right place because I'm about to talk to you about three...
If I had a dollar for every restaurant owner who is looking for a restaurant pricing strategy to get more bang for their buck, I would be worth a ton of money! Why? Because everyone ties making money with increased sales and the easiest way to increase your sales is to raise your prices. But...
Menu engineering is a popular search topic. It’s a buzzword and, when done right, can have a big impact on your restaurant’s sales. To do restaurant menu engineering correctly, you have to make sure you’re using proper restaurant management systems, whether it’s software...
In this episode of The Restaurant Prosperity Formula podcast, host David Scott Peters welcomes back Darren Denington, CFBE, founder of Service with Style. Darren has more than 30 years of experience in the hospitality industry and has an extensive background as a food and beverage director,...
When it comes to restaurant menu pricing strategies, what approach do you take in your independent restaurant? Do you just look at what your competitors are charging? Do you think about what you think people would be willing to pay for an item? Or do you just ask your chef or kitchen manager to...
Food costs have been rising on a weekly basis for darn near two decades now. Most restaurant operators are quick to attribute their high food cost to these price changes. On top of that, the echo chamber of the Internet keeps compounding the problem, feeding you bad information like the average...
