Restaurant Design While great food and customer service are essential for return business, the ambiance and restaurant design are equally as important. Ideally, you would create an environment where customers feel comfortable while maximizing the number of guest you can serve at any given time. Your restaurant’s design sets the stage for a customer’s dining experience. The music, tables, […]
Restaurant Trends, Culinary, Tech and Economy Like most industries, the restaurant/food industry is using analytical data to understand how the market is being influenced and how to follow suit. As a new wave of youthful consumers begins entrenching upon restaurants, there are some key trends that they are particularly attracted to. Here is a look […]
Congratulations! You are about to embark on a new journey, whether it’s your first restaurant of your 5th one when designing a new restaurant kitchen or renovating an existing one, efficiency should always be your top priority. The single most significant factor in your restaurant’s success is a well-designed and functional kitchen. A carelessly designed […]
Are Vegan Restaurants the Next Big Food Trend? Veganism, defined as not consuming or using animal byproducts, has gone mainstream of late. It is no longer entirely acceptable to ignore vegans when designing your restaurant, and some established joints such as Gigi Pizzeria in Sydney, Australia, have gone meat free. In fact, vegan and […]
How Demographics, Lifestyle, and Technology are Changing Restaurant Consumer Trends In general, demographics refer to quantitative characteristics such as age, gender, and geographic location used in marketing to segment large populations into small, marketable groups with similar characteristics and collectively influence many consumer trends, behaviors, and expectations. By understanding more about current and […]
Restaurant Sustainability Can you imagine adding up all the food wasted at your favorite restaurant in one day? Multiply that by seven days. And now by 30 days. Could that not be donated to your local charity to help the starving? Maybe multiple charities? Could the amount of waste not be decreased, so […]
The Benefits of Efficient Commercial Kitchen Design When considering renovation or the initial design of your restaurants kitchen, it is important to recognize the importance of functionality as well as aesthetics. There are many components to address when developing your kitchen and bar design. The major modules that require a restaurateur’s attention should be effective spacing, […]
How To Improve Restaurant Revenue While the food service industry overall experienced it’s eighth consecutive year of industry-wide growth, restaurants on an individual scale are competing for the same consumers. This article on Nasdaq states “Instead of generating added sales, each new restaurant is eating up shares from others.” What does this mean for […]
Why You Should Conduct a Feasibility Study Before Starting a New Restaurant Your dream is to own a wonderful little restaurant and serve exotic foods or home-style foods or other specialized cuisines. You know deep down in your heart that it will succeed because there is nothing else like it. But are you willing […]
2019 Restaurant Trends Making Services Automatic (Introducing the Bots): Many restaurants are moving into 2019 and are looking to bots to make most kitchen and service workers obsolete. Yes, this means “poof” people have no jobs. Robots around the world are starting to do amazing things such as producing 120 made-to-order pizzas an hour (more […]