How to finally use your outdoor patio during high-traffic holidays!
You want to be able to be full to capacity during high-traffic sections of the day like breakfast, lunch and dinner. Naturally. And wouldn’t it be nice to count on your outdoor patio for those high-traffic periods too? All too often, we hear of restaurant owners express dissatisfaction in having little or no control over the availability of their […]
Winter Storms Devastate Restaurant Industry
It’s no secret that winter storms hurt the restaurant industry this year. Restaurant patrons across 33% of the country have been reluctant or unable to leave their homes for the better part of 2014, Wade Handson, a principal at Technomic says. As Spring arrives, consumers will reenter the foodservice industry, but January and February have left […]
I will never own another restaurant patio!
”I will never have another patio at my restaurant!” These are the strong words a recent client once used. He promised himself he would never experience the frustrations of a patio again. That was until we met at the National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago. At that time, he was building a new restaurant using […]