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Is your business in shape for the year?

Hospitality Magazine

A digital menu gives you endless flexibility to experiment with new dishes, drinks and pricing. If something doesn’t work, it’s gone in minutes, or you can raise the price if it’s a success. If you’re already using online rostering and booking services, integrate them with bookkeeping, payroll and marketing. Upgrade your menu.

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Restaurant Bookkeeping: The Ultimate Guide

Synergy Suite

That’s why mastering the art of restaurant bookkeeping is a skill not to be overlooked. This guide will walk you through the essentials of restaurant bookkeeping, offering techniques to streamline your financial processes and ensure your venture flourishes. What Is Restaurant Bookkeeping and Why Is It Important?

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Restaurant Accounting: A Comprehensive Guide

7 Shifts

Step 2: Look for a trustworthy restaurant accountant Even if you already know the restaurant bookkeeping and accounting process well, we suggest hiring a professional accountant to help ensure your business complies with local tax, payroll, federal, and state laws. As a rule, this should make up about 1/3 of your total expenses.

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Automation Can Help with Restaurant Staffing Shortages

Modern Restaurant Management

Compare that value to spending several thousand a month on full-time bookkeeping or paying your staff their hourly wage to cut checks. Tracking food prices and historical spending patterns gives restaurants the agility to navigate today’s inflation- and shortage-ridden supplier marketplace.

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Expanding Your Business? Seven Tips to Improve Cash Flow to Fund a New Location

Modern Restaurant Management

Hold Vendors Accountable to Contract Pricing As restaurant owners receive vendor invoices, they should use a system that can track purchased item costs to discover any contract violations. Reviewing these numbers frequently can help to hold vendors accountable to the prices they are quoting.

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Survey Says: Restaurateurs Are Making Expansion Plans

Modern Restaurant Management

Inventory : Generally, when food costs go up, operators will raise their menu prices by a small amount. But what we’ve found is that operators have been leaning on menu price hikes to cover their expenses for more than two years now, and they’ve finally reached the limits of what consumers are willing to pay.

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Revenue Management: The ‘Art’ Behind the Science

Revenue Hub

Particularly in this environment, your pricing strategy isn’t as easy as taking last year’s rates, bumping them by 5-10%, and waiting for the bookings to flow in. This is where not having a pricing tool can create gaps in your strategy, not to mention taking hours of your time researching comp sets. But another storm cloud was looming.

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