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By David Scott Peters Restaurant Tip of the Week Know your history to forecast your future You can’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been. Forecasting is a big part of [...]

By David Scott Peters This year Halloween is on a Saturday. Is that good or bad for your restaurant’s sales? If you don’t know, then this post is for you. A key part of budgeting is [...]

If you read this post about the must-have systems needed to maximize your POS systems, then you’re ready to learn how to use your POS system for inventory. Input your vendors: You need to [...]

Let’s talk about how to maximize your restaurant POS system. I’m passionate about efficiency. Call me lucky, but I’m one of those rare people who has turned my passion into my career: [...]

When it comes to the restaurant POS system, a common problem among restaurant owners, whether a full-service restaurant and bar or a delivery-only pizzeria, is they buy an expensive system, but [...]

By David Scott Peters Restaurant Tip of the Day Make your menu work for you. Sit down and take a long hard look at your menu. Do you know what sells and what doesn’t? Look for dogs. The dogs are [...]

By David Scott Peters Quit letting the bartenders run the bar. Give your bartenders the recipes you want them to make, right down to how many shots to put in every drink, and you’ll immediately [...]

Watch David Scott Peters tell you about his upcoming workshop, “How to Run a Profitable Restaurant: from Soup to Nuts.” See for yourself who David is and why he is the guy to help you [...]

And then train them some more. A Tip for Today: a helpful bit of advice for the independent restaurant owner. Each employee is only as good as the training they receive. Training your staff does [...]

By David Scott Peters Follow the FIFO principle. What’s FIFO? FIFO is first in first out inventory management. Oldest dated product needs to be used first. So when the delivery is made, make sure [...]