Category: SMB Tips & Tricks

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18 Restaurant Management Books to Learn from the Experts and Book Your Business Solid

Owning a restaurant is lovely, but restaurant management can get overwhelming. According to Perry Group, 70% of restaurants that make it past their first year close down within three to...

/ May 30, 2019
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How To Use The Customer Lifecycle In Your Marketing Plan (w/ Examples!)

You’ve spent countless hours setting up your business, from the very product that you sell to the site that you sell it on. Now it’s time to come up with...

/ May 27, 2019
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How To Run A Successful Restaurant (With Over 60+ Links and Resources!) – Candybar’s Guide to Restaurant Management

Restaurant management is not easy, and it is tough to find the formula for how to run a successful restaurant. Managing a restaurant, bar, or cafe is tough – and it involves a broad...

/ May 20, 2019
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Here’s Every Restaurant Marketing Idea You Need To Survive In Today’s Economy

Restaurants – and in particular, dining chains – are slowly but surely dying off. According to restaurant industry tracker TDn2K, 2016 was “the worst year for the restaurant industry since...

/ May 12, 2019
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Every Question You Have About Restaurant Financing, Answered

Starting your own small restaurant or cafe can be a dream – but you’ll need help along the way, along with some starting capital. Our friends at Fundera offer some...

/ December 4, 2018
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4 Reasons Why Everyone Loves The Red Robin Loyalty Rewards Program

Red Robin offers some of the best burgers in America and its sales are very impressive. BusinessWire reports that its total revenue was a whopping $315.4 million in the second...

/ November 5, 2018
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Five Ways Your Restaurant POS Can Create Happy Customers and Drive Repeat Sales

This post was shared by our friends at Upserve POS – a restaurant management platform built by restauranteurs. Many new restaurant owners make the mistake of focusing too much on...

/ September 21, 2018
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Checklist: 6 Ways to Use Online Engagement to Deliver A Great Customer Experience for F&B

Your customers are online – you should be too Just like F&B businesses can take on many different forms and styles, there is no single solution to online engagement for...

/ August 23, 2018
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When Loyalty Programs Fail: 6 Pitfalls For You To Avoid (With Examples and Lessons)

Avoid the banana peel of common loyalty program pitfalls Harvard Business Review says that businesses find it 5 to 25 times harder to get a new customer than to keep an existing one....

/ August 8, 2018
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The Anatomy of a Review: What F&B Customers Focus On

Reviews reveal what your customers see; often, the little details you’ve missed Word of mouth marketing has gone digital.These days, online customer reviews work the same way as in-person word...

/ August 6, 2018