Hospitality Influencers

Creating a menu is far more complicated than many restaurateurs realize. It's a lot more than just listing food and beverage items and sticking a price on it. If you know how to design and engineer a great menu, you can be sure that it will be an excellent sales tool.

Things I think you should consider when looking at starting a hospitality business.

I've heard the words "I want to open my own bar or restaurant" so many times in my career. 

How do you open a restaurant? It's an important question and one a lot of new entrants get wrong.

I'm often asked for advice on opening a restaurant, and my first response is always the same - are you sure?

You wouldn’t bake a chocolate cake without a recipe, would you? The same goes for starting a restaurant.

My thoughts and advice on opening a new restaurant in this day and age would be - location, location, location!

Owning a business whether it be a restaurant, a small cafe or a catering company, this market is not easy.

Have you just opened your restaurant? Struggling to get the most from your marketing budget? Knowing where and how to start marketing your restaurant can be a bit confusing. If you don't have the biggest budget in the world that doesn't mean you can't market your restaurant well. With a bit of know-how and creativity, you can quickly spread the word that there is a new restaurant in town. Let's take a look at 4 effective ways you can market your restaurant.

Although delicious food and excellent service are significant factors to why clients visit your restaurant, the interior design can add to the experience of visiting a restaurant and is equally important. In a highly competitive industry diners have plenty of options to choose from and standing out is becoming tougher and tougher.

Here are some popular design trends which you may want to implement in your restaurant.