Back of House Restaurant Guide: Integrating FOH and BOH for Seamless Operations
Restaurant back-of-house operations form the backbone of a restaurant’s success. The back-of-house (or BOH) manages crucial elements that impact cost control and profitability. These include food production and inventory management. Additionally, the BOH handles food safety and restaurant administration. The back of the house supports the front of the house (FOH), enabling the customer-facing team […]
How to Maximise Your Restaurant Profit Margin: 5 Key Strategies
Understanding what influences your restaurant profit margin helps you assess the success of the business and make positive changes. A slight improvement in your net profit makes a huge difference. It’s worth, therefore, investing in improving operations to boost your margin. In this guide, we’ll examine the definitions and calculations for different types of restaurant […]
Recipe Costing for Restaurants: What it is, Why It is Important and How to Calculate Ingredient Costs and Dish Margins
This guide covers the essentials of recipe costing, including the benefits of proper calculations and the best formula to use. If a restaurant does not know how much it costs to make one dish, they will likely lose money at every table. Understanding the true cost of recipes underpins a restaurant’s success and financial health. […]
Restaurant Operations Management: Definition, Duties, and Use Cases
Success for a waiter is in providing everything the customer needs while they barely notice what you are doing. Similarly, restaurant operations management is about seamlessly making the whole operation work: facilitating an excellent customer experience, giving staff everything they need to do their jobs, and making the restaurant run smoothly and efficiently. Read on […]
Secrets of Operational Excellence: How High-performing Restaurant Leaders Optimise Operations [and What They Do Differently]
As restaurants expand to multiple locations, the challenges operators face increase exponentially. They need to maintain consistency, provide excellent customer experience and optimise performance across a growing number of locations. Meanwhile, the market keeps changing at the speed of light. Some business leaders navigate those challenges noticeably better than others. In this article, I explore […]
15 Powerful Ways To Reduce Food Waste In Multi-Site Restaurants
Every report on food waste is a jaw-dropper. Food waste is a monumental problem with massive consequences. An estimated 32% of all food produced worldwide is lost or wasted from farm to fork (some reports even say between 40-50%). This inefficiency has a gigantic economic, social and environmental impact. Let’s focus on the economy for […]
How To Ensure Restaurant Profitability When Inflation Is High [Use These 5 Tactics To Dampen Price Increases]
If CoGs and overheads rise due to inflation, your menu prices should follow. It’s as simple as that. Otherwise, your margins shrink, and your working capital disappears. Or worse, you’ll make a loss. But before adding a flat 5% to each menu item, use these tactics. They will help you reduce your costs structurally. That way, […]
Restaurant Franchising: 10 Essential Performance Metrics For Consistent Group-wide Profitability
It’s a giant leap from running a handful of locations in-house to franchising your restaurant. It’s easy to lose control. Monitoring restaurant performance metrics puts you back in command. And control is what you need to ensure group-wide consistency and profitability. This article lists ten crucial restaurant franchise metrics. With these, you can help your […]
Pitfalls Of Starting A Restaurant Franchise — Is Your F&B Concept Fit For Expansion? Are You Ready To Deal With Franchisees?
Franchising is a time-tested business model that allows restaurant owners to scale their business fast and efficiently. However, like every business model, it has a few drawbacks you should consider. In this post, we are NOT exploring the benefits of a restaurant franchise. Instead, we embrace the dark side and look at the pain points […]