How To Make Your Restaurant Instagrammable
Social media is making a huge impact on restaurants, and Instagram is certainly helping with this trend. People want to go to places where they can take cool photos are share them with their followers on Instagram. If your restaurant or food looks good then these customers will do your promotion for you, and encourage […]
Spring Cleaning Your Stock Taking
While January and February tend to slow down in the catering and hospitality industries, March and April seems to affect these industries like no other industries. The evenings are growing lighter and the weather is more pleasant. Consumers are enjoying evening strolls to their local pubs, meals out in restaurants and trips out for a […]
Top Tips For Improving Your Sales, Margins And Yield In Winter With Stock Taking
In the colder, wetter, darker months it can often be hard to entice your clientele out of their homes and into your premises. This is why every drop of profit, in these quieter months is more important than ever . We have put together some top tips for improving your sales, margins and yield. All […]
What Does ‘Taking Stock’ Mean?
‘Taking Stock’ is another way of saying stocktaking or completing an inventory. It is a process of counting the amount of stock in your hospitality or catering business. The stock counted will include things like food, drink, linen, cleaning products and other items. The quantities of stock are then matched against the cost of each […]
BLOG – Could You Run Specials In Your Restaurant?
It is unusual to go to a restaurant and find that they don’t have any specials; but as a restaurant owner it is often hard to decide the best ‘specials’ you can offer for your customers and target audience.
Pub Closures Continue
It seems that a recent survey shows a very gloomy picture for pub closure rates in the UK as pubs continue to close at an alarming rate. The survey completed by CAMRA’s What Pub online guide covers around 47,500 pubs from across all corners of the UK. Between July 2016 and December 2016 455 pubs […]
The Role Of A Mystery Diner
Mystery diners and mystery shoppers have been around for years, when it began a mystery shopper was used as protect the business from theft and they were common services that a bank or store would employ a mystery shopper for. However this was back in the 1940’s and it would be private investigators posed […]
What Will A Food Stocktake Achieve?
We are often asked by those new to the catering and hospitality sector what a food stocktake or food stock audit will actually achieve, so we though we would put this blog together to show restaurant, pub & hotel owners just how useful a good food stocktake can be for a business.
7 Cardinal Sins of Restaurant Stocktaking-Carelessness
As a restaurant owner it is only normal that you will have a lot on your plate and a lot of those full plates to balance – literally in some cases! It is your job as a restaurant owner to balance that restaurant full of hungry customers, the busy bar area, the latest special meal […]