SMART Systems

If you wish you could make more money in your restaurant, let me tell you how to use this system: a restaurant budget. Have you ever said this? “I don’t need a restaurant budget. I know my [...]

There is one, and really only one, system that ultimately is the key to your restaurant running profitably. That system is recipe costing cards! Having recipe costing cards allows you to make [...]

Recipe Costing Cards Keep Restaurant and Catering Costs Separate Most restaurant owners who launch or already have a catering division ask me for tips on keeping the costs of their two businesses [...]

Keeping Catering Costs Separate from Restaurant Costs A great way to make more money in your restaurant is to increase sales in the restaurant without adding more seats. Catering magically [...]

How to predict profits with accuracy Most independent restaurant owners use their “gut” to run their restaurants instead of the real numbers. They might as well gamble for a living. This approach [...]

How to predict profits with accuracy Most independent restaurant owners use their “gut” to run their restaurants instead of the real numbers. They might as well gamble for a living. This approach [...]

Want to make more money in your restaurant? Then you must use batch recipe costing cards. If you don’t use recipe costing cards, please read here why recipe costing cards are so important. [...]

Hey there, restaurant owner, I have a question for you. What is a restaurant owner’s job? What should a restaurant owner be working on? I hope you don’t tell me: Working the line [...]

Your job as the restaurant owner is to work on growing your restaurant. Whether that’s sales, new revenue streams or additional locations. If no one is focused on growth, it’s not going to [...]

How do you know for sure your restaurant inventory is being counted correctly without actually doing it yourself? First, let’s start with a refresher on your actual cost of goods sold [...]