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Enough Already! 3 Things About Restaurant Profits You Need to Hear
How are the profits in your restaurant? Great? Amazing? Is it your best year ever or are your profits on life support? Wherever you are now, it can be said that you want more. It's human nature to want to climb to the top.
The restaurant business can be very brutal on people at times especially when it comes to the area of making money. How do you beat the odds and maximize your profit potential? Here are 3 things that are getting in the way of you and your profits:
Why Australian restaurants are failing to wow the world's food judges
We've got clean waters brimming with vibrant seafood. Shining produce from the land. Unique bush foods and the culinary influences from myriad cultures. Our chefs are innovative and rated highly in the commercial kitchens of the world.
So, why aren't Australian restaurants peppering The World's 50 Best Restaurants list?
How top restaurants are winning on Instagram
"Australia's Top Restaurant is ... Ester,""
But it's not because of the fabulous food or even peer popularity like the winners of Australia's Top 100 Restaurants for 2018, who will be unveiled on Monday night.
Instead, the restaurant in Sydney's Chippendale has topped the ranks for Instagram engagement, which means it generated the most likes and comments on its posts.
A Recyclable Takeaway Coffee Cup Is Coming to a Cafe Near You
It's estimated Australians dispose of a staggering 50,000 takeaway coffee cups every 30 minutes, sending roughly a billion to landfill each year. The best – and most sustainable – remedy is to use a KeepCup or other reusable option. But Australian specialist paper manufacturer Detpak is keen to reduce the number of takeaway cups sent to the tip each year in the meantime.
Last weekend at Cooma, on my way home from Thredbo, I bumped into good friends at the same ski hire rental place. We were both returning rental skis or snowboards. We then enjoyed a coffee together before resuming our long drive back to Sydney. They had brought their own resuable coffee mugs with them for an ocassion exactly like this while I had to add to the world's pollution problems to drink mine.
Then I found this article. It can't be a coincidence!
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