When you sign your restaurant lease you are agreeing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in rent! This process cannot be taken lightly warns Dale...

By taking the concept of accrual into account, you can produce a monthly Profit and Loss Statement that is infinitely more accurate, especially as it relates to your payroll costs.

The term, or length, of your restaurant commercial lease is an important part of your business plan and ensuing lease negotiations. Dale walks you through the key considerations.

Miriam tosses a handful of ideas into the ring for your restaurant to consider as methods to garner local media coverage in your community.

When was the last time you challenged a landlord or property manager about the Operating Expenses or Common Area Maintenance (CAM) charges? Probably not recently or never, right? Dale tells you why you have to...

"A good restaurant in a poor location will become a poor business," says Dale. He shares some relevant tips to help you get it right.

You have within your power the ability to generate a great increase in your business. How?  By putting together a mailing list says Miriam.

One of the best ways to get a restaurant free publicity is by taking advantage of events and seizing the opportunity.  Miriam talks about a "unique" opportunity as well as year-round strategies to drum up media coverage for your restaurant.

By promoting the sale of liquor alone (mixed drinks, cocktails, shots, etc.) you can start your restaurant down the path to greater profitability almost overnight.

As if the restaurant business was not hard enough, complying with IRS tip reporting rules is one of the most critical and important tasks facing restaurant owners! This is truer today than a decade ago as the IRS is accelerating its efforts to capture previously lost revenue in the form of income and FICA (Social Security & Medicare) tax. As a restaurant owner you should therefore be aware of your responsibilities regarding the reporting of your employee’s tips.  The bottom line is this...

Training for you and your staff is, of course, important.  The "Blend" recognizes the constraints of time, money and resources in today's marketplace.  In sum, John thinks this is a very exciting time for training and development -- read more on his take.