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Owning a successful restaurant is all about staying in touch with current trends and staying in tune with your customers. While you have invested in the best website money can buy, and spent time and effort keeping your Facebook page up to date, if you are not actively surveying your customers, you won’t really have your finger on the pulse of what is happening in your restaurant.
Opening a successful restaurant is all about location; physical brick-and-mortar venues matter even in today’s world of virtual reality. Location can make or break a restaurant. In “Location: A Strategic Marketing Imperative,” Forbes advises that researching your restaurant’s location is the key to success or failure.
As mentioned in a previous post, the number of people suffering from food allergies is growing at an alarming rate. As a restaurant owner, it is the responsibility of you and your staff to do everything you can to keep your customers safe and to make this health issue a number-one priority. It is not an impossible task, but it is one that requires ongoing diligence and awareness.
Food allergies are becoming more prevalent and severe, according to the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN). More and more it seems that people, young and old, are developing allergies and intolerances to certain foods and ingredients. Some of these allergies can be life-threating, while others are “just” inconvenient, as they cause less dire symptoms that people still want to avoid.
As a restaurant owner, you have to offset the demands of being an entrepreneur with the needs of your clientele, a balancing act that is both a requirement and a challenge. So when the time comes to revamp your menu – due to seasonal requirements, cost considerations, or time constraints – follow prescribed guidelines on how to do it, and – most important – don’t forget your customers, many of whom will vote with their feet if that menu change isn’t handled correctly.
The United State is the world’s biggest wine market by volume, according to Western Farm Press. In fact, somewhere in the neighborhood of just under four billion bottles are consumed every year in this country!
With winter weather upon us and spring still months away, nothing warms the body and soul quite like a bowl of soup. And while chicken noodle may be the first to come to mind, there are many different kinds of soup worth sipping.
We’re counting down six of our favorite soups perfect for keeping winter’s chill at bay.