Google Favors Responsive Design Website
The growth in mobile search has caused Google to change their search algorithm. A few months ago, Google announced that they now favor mobile friendly websites when a user...
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Special Events: Dedicating Your Restaurant to Events
People turn to their favorite restaurants when they want to hold special events, corporate parties and other functions. Private dinners, wedding-rehearsal meals, showers...
Saving Money With the Right Kitchen Equipment
The Stone Age chef may have only used fire, rocks and sticks to cook, but innovations do help to increase speed, sanitation and flavor in restaurant kitchens. Many chefs...
The Promotional Power of a Signature Dish
Perceptive diners increasingly want to enjoy something that they can share with others, and signature dishes give consumers that kind of unique experience. A signature...
4 Ways to Hook Customers on a Restaurant Concept
Successful restaurant concepts focus on trends that are popular among the people in a favored demographic section of the public. People love validation of their own ideas,...
OpenTable Buys Crucial Competitor, Urbanspoon’s Rezbook
OpenTable bought Rezbook, Urbanspoon’s iPad-based online reservation system, limiting the competition in online restaurant reservation. Urbanspoon, which already had a...
Using Community Partnerships to Help Promote Your Restaurant
Community partnerships can stimulate business, engineer free publicity and promote restaurants and communities in an integrated effort. Charitable and civic initiatives...
Yelp Buys SeatMe, an OpenTable Competitor
Yelp recently bought SeatMe, a startup that offers online reservation and table management services to restaurants. Using the web or their iPad app, SeatMe gives...
How to Finance Expansions, Franchises or Ongoing Restaurant Operations
Getting funding for restaurant expansions, starting new chain operations or buying franchises is an issue that many successful restaurant owners face. Customers often...
Keeping Your Hospitality Staff Positive
We’re all familiar with the first rule of retail being the customer is always right. This is especially true in the hospitality industry. When guests book hotel stays for...