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Fun Ideas for Your Child Centric Restaurant

Aug 29
Posted by Daniel in fun, Restaurant Furniture, restaurant tips and advice

If you are running a family friendly restaurant that focuses on children, then you will want to make sure that you have everything that a child centric restaurant should have. Here are a few fun ideas that you might want to incorporate into your restaurant.

What screams fun for kids? Games are an obvious choice. You can have many different types of games, from video games to skee ball. You will want to make sure that there are games for children of different ages, and it might be a good idea to throw in something that the adults are going to like as well.

Seating is something that you need to consider carefully. Remember that in a restaurant that is specifically for children, they are going to be running around. Make sure that you have enough space to allow for that. Restaurant booths will help to easily divide the space and will allow for more “running around” space. You will also need to make sure that you have seating that is right for both children and adults. Booster seats, for the younger kids to sit on, are a great idea and they are something that you do not want to overlook.

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Use the Digital World to Draw More Customers to Your Restaurant

Aug 25
Posted by Daniel in bar tips and advice, Commercial Seating, Restaurant Furniture, restaurant tips and advice

What are your customers and all of those potential customers doing when they aren’t enjoying a meal at your restaurant? Well, when they aren’t at work most people spend oodles of time on the web. Of course, quite a few of them are probably on the net even when they are at work, but that’s beside the point! Once you realize how much time people spend on the web, you can see what a powerful tool it can be. If you have only a limited web presence right now, beef it up.

You need to have a website for your restaurant for starters. It doesn’t have to be full of bells and whistles, and you don’t have to spend a fortune to get it set up. However, you want to try to set the right tone with your site. It should match the ambience that you are trying to create inside your eatery.

Make sure that you have your menu up on your site so people know what they are going to find in terms of eats. You also want to have some photos of your restaurant. Have a gallery of shots of the exterior and the interior to show your restaurant furniture and seating arrangement. Highlight the best parts of your restaurant. You can hire a professional to take the photos or you can do it on your own. Just be sure to put up clean and clear photos. That means the snapshots you take with your cell phone probably aren’t going to cut it.

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Pass Out Drink and Food Coupons for Your Restaurant

Aug 21
Posted by Daniel in bar tips and advice, Restaurant, Restaurant Furniture, restaurant tips and advice

After a well deserved holiday we are back with more tips and advice on how to keep your restaurants and bars going and how to keep making profits even in these hard economical times. This time it’s all about coupons and discounts and how to make them work for you without loosing money:

Every bar owner wants to have a nice establishment where people can feel comfortable and have a great time. They put effort into picking out the right tables and seating, knowing that it is very important, and they make sure that the ambiance in the place is just right for the clientele they want to attract. When things don’t immediately go their way, they are sometimes tempted to give up. Now is the time to start promoting harder though! All of the hard work that promotion entails is well worth it. Here is a simple way to get more people to come into your bar in the next couple of weeks.

Coupon is a word that you generally only think of when you are heading to the grocery store or maybe a restaurant. You can use them for your bar as well though, and they can be very effective. When you create your coupons, you want to make sure that you offer some real incentives for people to come into your bar. Buy two get one free coupons are always nice. Offer 50 percent off appetizers if you have finger foods at the bar. You need to make sure that you have an expiration date on your coupon, otherwise people could take advantage.

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Everyone is a Comedian: Putting on an Open Mic Night at Your Bar

Aug 02
Posted by Daniel in bar tips and advice, fun, restaurant tips and advice

Have you been wracking your brain and trying to come up with a fun promotion that will get more people to come into your establishment? If you are like most bar owners, you are probably constantly thinking of ways that you can increase the number of patrons that you have. A great way to attract more people is to have an open mic night for stand up comedians.

How is adding comedy to your bar going to help? It is a fun event that you can promote easily. People are going to see it as free entertainment, which it is. It can create an influx of customers into your bar, including friends and family members of those who are performing. More people in the bar equal more money in your pocket.

When you are putting on an open mic night for amateur comedians in your town, it isn’t as simple as setting up a PA system and letting anyone who comes by step up on the stage. Well, you could do that, but you will quickly find that it devolves into an unorganized mess. Instead, take some time to come up with a plan. The following tips should help you to get started. (more…)

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Deep Discounts can Drive Profit Up for Your Restaurant

Jul 28
Posted by Daniel in bar tips and advice, Restaurant, Restaurant Furniture, restaurant seating, restaurant tips and advice

Many people who are new to the restaurant business are afraid of offering discounts that they deem to be too large. However, a large discount might be just what you need to stir up more customers and get new people to come into your restaurant. How deep is a deep discount? Consider offering a meal for .25 cents with the purchase of another meal at full price.

This seems like it is going to cost you money, but you will be able to make up for it in volume. In addition, more people will hear about your restaurant, and you might be able to attract some customers that would never have visited. If they have a good experience, they will likely come back.

How can you make sure that they have a good experience at your restaurant? Well, for starters you need to have great food and a great staff that is going to be able to handle the higher volume of traffic. Because you should expect to do more business during this time, it is important that your restaurant seating is able to handle that many extra people too. Good restaurant seating, a good staff, and great food are three ingredients that you can’t do without.

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Employee Vouchers Can Boost Your Bar or Restaurant

Jul 17
Posted by Daniel in bar tips and advice, fun, Restaurant, restaurant tips and advice

Since your employees spend so much time at your bar or restaurant, they are the perfect people to help you market effectively. Their word of mouth can help to bring in more people to your establishment. However, you want to be able to reward them for helping you promote, and when you offer some type of incentive, you will find that they work even harder for you. The following is a great idea that you might want to employ to see just how much more business it will be able to bring into your place.

You are going to create employee vouchers. It is simple, and it can be a wonderful way to get more people to come into your restaurant or bar, even if they didn’t have any intention of visiting. Print up a large number of vouchers that offer discounted meals or drink specials. Anyone who presents them at your bar or eatery will get this discount. Make sure that the voucher has an expiration date.

Pass stacks of these vouchers out to all of your employees. Make sure that everyone gets an equal amount of the vouchers from the bouncers to the hostess to the bartenders, wait staff, busboys, chefs, dishwashers . . . you get the idea. Have them initial the back of each voucher and then pass them out to anyone that they wish. (more…)

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