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How Restaurants are Maintaining Profit Margins with Rising Food Costs

Horizon Hospitality

The confluence of these economic pressures demands innovative approaches to menu planning, cost control, and supplier negotiations. Strategies for Menu Planning Simplify the Menu: Streamlining your menu can significantly reduce food costs. Diversify suppliers to ensure flexibility and competitiveness.

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How to Manage Restaurant Staff Without Sacrificing Your Sanity

7 Shifts

The servers are running back and forth with orders to relay or food to serve. Planning and Organization If you’re coming into a management role from a server, bartending or kitchen position, you may be used to frequently working on the fly. As a manager, planning and organization will become a bigger part of your job.

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A Guide to the Role of a Restaurant Manager: Duties, Daily Routine, and Essential Skills

7 Shifts

One other way you may need to manage inventory is with menu planning. Some restaurant managers work directly with the chef to plan menu item selection or daily specials. If this applies to you, you'll want to make sure that menu items are enticing, well-portioned, and profitable.

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Menu Engineering: The Science of Optimizing Your Menu to Maximize Profit

7 Shifts

Menu Pricing and 2. Menu Design Once you analyze all of your menu items’ popularity and profitability, you can carefully engage in restaurant menu planning for your customer-facing menu to maximize profits. Instruct your servers to recommend these items wherever possible.

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Learning from the Experts: How a Restaurant Consultant can Help You Build a Successful Business

The Restaurant Times

With several categories of personnel required in a restaurant business such as managers, cooks, servers, dishwashers, hosts, etc., Menu Planning and Design. An important aspect that is often neglected is menu design and layout. hiring and training them is critical.

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Inventory Turnover Ratio for Restaurants: Maximizing Inventory Efficiency

Synergy Suite

Menu planning and item selection Menu planning and item selection play a pivotal role in influencing inventory turnover ratio for restaurants. Strategic menu planning involves balancing popular, high-margin items with perishable goods to minimize excess inventory.

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How can I learn hotel management?

Les Roches

Positions such as front desk associate, guest services representative, housekeeping attendant or food and beverage server provide opportunities to learn firsthand about hotel operations and interact with guests daily. Developing and implementing strategic plans to achieve revenue targets and profitability goals.