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Independent Restaurant Marketing – 3 Ways To Compete With The Big Boys
By Greg McGuire
Big chain restaurants dominate the mass market when it comes to advertising – a fact of life that can sometimes make it difficult for smaller independent operations to be heard among all the songs about baby back ribs. Launching a restaurant marketing campaign for an independent means less money to spend and more to lose if the campaign doesn’t drive more business. That means a successful marketing campaign has to stand out to be effective. Independents can’t rely on constant coverage through big media outlets, but that doesn’t necessarily have to be a disadvantage...

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Do customers say to you: "I couldn't find you on my GPS"?

February 3, 2010
By BizMappers   
Do customers say to you: "I couldn't find you on my GPS"? How is your business mapped in a potential customer's search on Google...
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Commercial Dishwashers: High Temp vs. Low Temp & How To Size A New Unit

February 3, 2010
By Greg McGuire   
Are you a high temp person or a low temp person? It seems like most restaurants have either one type of commercial dishwasher or the other, and the...
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Negotiate Your Restaurant Commercial Lease or Renewal

February 1, 2010
By Dale Willerton   
For both independent restaurant-owners and restaurant franchises, negotiating a good lease or renewal against an experienced agent or landlord can...
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Get Your Hands Dirty

February 1, 2010
By Christopher Wolf    Copyright: QSR Magazine
In the old model of charitable giving, corporations typically sponsored annual workplace giving campaigns that ended with a newspaper photo of people...
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Checklist for Opening a Restaurant - How to Bring Your Concept to Life

January 31, 2010
By Dean Small and Danny Bendas   
Opening a restaurant and creating a design on a budget is the sensible approach to getting into the restaurant business. Doing so requires the owner...
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5 Free Ways to Drive Restaurant Sales

January 25, 2010
By Krista Neher   
With the economy down businesses need to work harder to drive sales with less. The good news is that there are a number of free services that can help...
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