Fight Inflation and Streamline Operations with These 3 Tools
Margins for restaurants are contracting due to inflation. Everything from the price of ingredients to labor are creating an environment for restaurants where their profits are quic...
5 Tips to Improve Your Restaurant Inventory Process
Keeping track of your restaurant’s inventory is one of the easiest ways of increasing your profit margins and allows you to quickly identify any stock problems and identify trend...
What is Prime Cost?
What is Prime Cost? Restaurant Prime Costs is typically the largest expense that a restaurant has, meaning If you can lower your prime cost, you are directly increasing your prof...
Technology Can Be Scary, Not Embracing It Is Even Scarier
We get it. Restaurants tend to be very resistant when it comes to technology in the back-of-house. I was the same way. The idea of ditching my inventory clipboard for an iPad or ...
Three Ways Menu Engineering Can Maximize Your Margins
A profitable restaurant menu doesn’t happen by accident. It requires an in depth look of ingredient costs, labor costs and sales, all which change on a daily basis. Running a...
How Automation Can Help with Labor Shortages
Staffing issues continue to plague the restaurant industry. The scarcity of workers is forcing operators to make do with a skeleton crew. Many restaurants have turned to automation...
How Rising Ingredient Prices Affect Your Bottom Line and What You Can Do About It!
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that rising ingredient prices eat directly into your profitability, unless you do something about it. Restaurants more than e...
Why Is Knowing Your Food Costs So Important?
We’ve interviewed thousands of our most successful restaurants clients to better understand what makes them stand out from the competition. The answer? They all unanimously agr...
Your 4 Step Guide To Managing Inventory at Your Restaurant
1. Develop a Process that won’t break down when you get busy Historically inventory is a time-consuming process demanding that your staff stop what they are doing and count eve...
Recipe Costing
The most successful restaurants all have one thing in common. They monitor their recipe costs! Dining Alliance Food Cost Management Technology will help you stay on top of your rec...