O’Dell Restaurant Consulting Blog

Long ticket times are a common problem in restaurants, and nothing will scare a potential regular customer away like having to wait 45+ minutes to get their food.
There are many factors that can increase ticket times. In this post, I would like to cover one of those issues, overloading a kitchen station.
Part of designing a [...]

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A good way to make your food stand out, and to communicate what your food is all about is by creating a signature item in each of your menu categories. These items should be your highest gross profit earners, and the centerpieces of your direct marketing efforts. They help define you and your restaurant. You [...]

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Check out the discussion going on in my FOHBOH.com blog about creating manageable menus, based on the same name post from this blog:
http://www.fohboh.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1411008%3ABlogPost%3A136257
Lot’s of valuable opinions flying around, with a few experts in the food service industry discussing this topic.

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