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Maintaining Your Restaurant to Prevent Grease Fires
As we’ve discussed in the past, kitchen fires - specifically commercial grease fires - are a common means of destruction in the restaurant setting. Preventing grease fires in your commercial kitchen starts with just that: preventing grease buildup. In addition to cleaning cooking equipment and...
5 Tips for Conducting Performance Reviews
A performance review is a process of assessing an employee's progress toward goals. Performance reviews are important for evaluating and providing constructive feedback to your employees. It’s important to communicate in advance, to set expectations for your employees, and to meet frequently to...
3 Tips: How to Find New Customers for Your Restaurant & Bar
Operating a successful restaurant is no small feat, and the fruits of your labor are dependent on a variety of factors. Quality food and constantly good service coupled with the incentivization of loyalty and a good location should be enough to get you your share of local customers. But what...
How to Start a Restaurant Email List – And Why You Need One
As a restaurant owner you wear many hats: server, host, busser, accountant and more. At some point, your attention is going to shift to marketing and how to best attract new customers to enter your restaurant and sit down for a bite. One popular marketing channel is the coveted (or dreaded,...
6 Tips to Stay Safe While Driving in the Rain
Safe driving techniques are important for everyone, but especially for those who are constantly on the road for work. For professions where the majority of your time is spent in a vehicle, these six tips to safe driving in the rain are essential knowledge. Low Beam Headlights One of the most...
How to Develop a Workplace Wellness Program
Less than one-third of Americans are happy with their job. An unhappy or unhealthy work environment is bad for both businesses and employees. In an unhealthy work environment, employees are likely to be less productive, experience higher absenteeism, and at higher risk for chronic illnesses. In...
The Difference Between Class K Fire Extinguishers vs. ABC Fire Extinguishers
There is a grease fire that started on your commercial cooking line. You look back to find two fire extinguishers sitting on the wall. One is a silver fire extinguisher and the other is a common red fire extinguisher. You inspect them a little closer and notice that the silver one is marked as a...
How to Practice Socially Distanced Team Building
For most teams, it’s been just over a year since remote work began. Teams have faced highs and lows as they navigated this new way of working together. Working remotely can lead to emotional isolation and stress. It’s ever so important to keep your team engaged but in a safe way. Socially...
Keeping Commercial Kitchen Hood & Duct Systems Clean
Keeping the kitchen hood and duct system properly maintained and clean is one of the most important things that a bar or restaurant can do to mitigate fire risks in their commercial kitchen. Commercial kitchens have heavy duty cooking equipment that runs for hours each day and usually every day of...
3 Outdoor Dining Tips to Enhance the Customer Experience
As foodservice continues to evolve, one demand remains consistent with nice weather: outdoor dining. For many restaurants, the outdoor dining season can double, even triple, the amount of dining space offered to customers. While it is an enticing feature for both restaurant staff and customers,...