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Scott and I will be there… Driving up Friday Night, and going to stay until Sunday. Your welcome to join us for some dinner and drinks saturday night if you want to come along! Not going to stay out too late tho… Have to be up early for the Pizza Competition… Shoot me an e-mail...

canukfanlady: Sorry about that… I was basiclly asking if your getting decent pricing from your distributor. I’m not sure what your background is, so I don’t know if you have anything to compare your prices to. But it doesn’t hurt to just ask your distributor what percentage he/she is marking...

Sometimes you also make the most money from your high foodcost items because they have such a good contribution margin. Its better to sell an item with a high foodcost that has a better contribution margin then to sell an item with a low foodcost that has a lower contribution margin. Its about...

Are you sure that your pricing is in line with your distributor?

Eli the Pizza guy: It really varies with the type of operation your running, your area, the type of customers that frequent your establishment… Such as we take a hit on our buffet in the winter, since a majority of the buffet customers are construction workers. When everything is frozen they...

One time when I was in Maui, I went to a restaurant that offered All You Can Eat Mahi Mahi , or whatever the dish was… But I remember reading a table tent on the table that politely asked customers not to share the all you can eat food and if they caught you, they would shoot you.

Anonymous: Write down on a piece of paper, the top 3 things that stress you out the most. Next come up with 5 solutions for each stressor and implement those solutions to solve the problem. Don’t sit and ponder problems. Sit and ponder solutions and take action to make those solutions happen...

Out of my 9 years in the restaurant industry, I can only remember 3 people that have called in Dine-In Orders. So I guess thats why I thought it was so odd he was calling it in. I’d personally be worried about my service if alot of people were calling in orders ahead of time for dine-in. If...

Davey: Check out your local book store for a book called Guerrilla Marketing. They have some good ideas that are inexpensive/free, for those running with a limited advertising budget.

Sometimes you just have to suck up your pride and let the customer have their way and make sure they are satisified. The customer is always right :). We have a Pizza & Salad Lunch Buffet and people will come in with their kids… Order 1 buffet and slide slices off to their kids. They are...

Also serving alcohol raised our insurance $400 more per month for the added coverage.

heather: I’m not sure if this in the case in PA but here you can get a restaurant license or a full blown liqour license. The restaurant license allows you to serve alcohol, but your sales have to be within a certain threshold. 50% food / 50% alcohol… or whatever percentage is determined by the...

I’ll take a copy also!! 🙂 [email protected] Thanks!!!

Now that the night is almost over… I don’t think our receipt printer could print tickets fast enough… It was a horrible night. Tremdenously understaffed. This tops one of my worst nights ever since I’v been in business. Plus I had to fire a driver before the shift even started, so that just...

What will this other person be responsible for? Managing the store x amount of days? Handling office work? There probably won’t even be a “cut” to share with this person for years to come… Unless your a pro and really know what your doing. Or I guess you could always get lucky. the guest:

There are too many factors involved in marketing to give you an answer to wether or not your proposed marketing will work. But I can definately tell you, you’ll need a more solid marketing plan than that. Test out your various pieces, before commiting to large quantities. Like with your...

Stay on top of your game. Set goals for yourself. Achieve your goals. And do consistent Marketing and set goals for what you want your marketing to acheive.

We are charged a flat rate of rent… hmm but if i caculate rent vs sales, then its 7% right now… but of course that is never the same, since sales go up and down. Da314man:

Hey Otis… Long time no chat 🙂 I’d check out some of the box companies and see what they can do for you…Our boxes come from a company called Holly and their plate charge is fairly inexpensive. I couldn’t imagine how painful, stamping boxes yourself would be. I personally say try to save money in...

We personally have trouble with the older employees. My kids that are in school are always on time for work, never call in sick, schedule off way in advance, and are generally hard workers. Its the older people that are out of school. They don’t have transportation, they are always late, they...