10 Amazingly Tasty Food Tours Around The World
Whether it’s feasting on fresh Alaskan salmon prepared by a sushi master, cycling between olive groves to sit down to a plate of fresh orecchiette in Puglia, or cruising through French wine country, these tours and cruises will send you home with a bellyful of memories.
How Smart Menu Design Can Counter Inflation
Focus on the "hot spots," or where customers tend to look first and most frequently.
It's no secret inflation coupled with subsequent menu price increases are having a negative impact on restaurants. This is a result of consumer reaction and changes in their behavior. Consumer traffic is declining and guests are trading down, creating less expensive orders. The result: slowing industry sales.
There’s no silver bullet to remedy this situation. However, one way to blunt the negative impact of inflation and higher menu prices is through smart menu design.
Pubs Win, Fine Dining Restaurants Lose As The Cost-of-Living Pinch Sets In
There’s been nearly a 30 per cent (28 per cent) decline in premium and fine dining venues since January of 2022, according to data from ResDiary.
Diners are now choosing mid-range venues such as pubs and cafes during these tough economic times, now accounting for nearly half of all bookings (48 per cent) of all bookings in Australia, up nearly 10 per cent from 37 per cent.
Why Customer Data Is The Holy Grail Of Restaurant Success
For the modern restaurant, data is power. Data can tell you approximately how much beef you need to purchase for a typical Saturday evening shift, and it can tell you how many employees to put on the schedule for that evening, and perhaps most crucial of all—it can tell you what percentage of customers are ordering a beef entree, where they come from, and how likely they are to return on the following Saturday night.