Restaurant Customer Service That Rocks

What makes a twelve-dollar hamburger worth twelve dollars? Hint: It’s not just the Certified Angus Beef. To differentiate yourself in the restaurant business—and make that burger worth the price—you have to be innovative, creative, irreverent and unpredictable. At least that’s what works at Hard Rock Café, where customers don’t just pay for those twelve-dollar burgers, they line [...]

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Food And Menu Pricing For Your Restaurant

One thing I’ll never forgive formal culinary schools for, is teaching new impressionable would-be chefs to use a budgeted cost percentage to price food menus. Chain restaurants share an equal responsibility for perpetuating this bad practice by focusing their managers on food cost percentages without letting them in on the secret that the cost percentage [...]

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