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Menu Engineering for Profitable Restaurant Business

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As a restaurateur, have you ever think of your restaurant menu that needs special consideration? Every aspect of the menu, starting from designing to auditing, is necessary for any restaurant or the like to take the business to the next level. If you are not familiar with the term “Menu Engineering”, this article is for you.  Go ahead! Menu engineering is one of the foremost responsibilities for restaurateurs as it serves the following purposes: Increase Sales Percentage Profitability of the restaurant lies in its menu pricing and design. The menu analysis will help you understand the performance of your restaurant menu listings. Such kind of action will enhance the opportunity to achieve better profit. Simply setting all the food items in an unsystematic order serves no purpose. A well-designed menu will increase sales to a greater percentage if it is engineered in a right way. Stay Ahead of Your Competitor Menu analysis will help you study the unique dishes a

3 Fine-dining restaurants to explore in Dubai

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The moment you set foot in the bustling city of Dubai, the magnitude of its multiculturalism can be felt instantaneously. Every aspect of the cosmopolitan city is a beautiful blend of tradition and modernity and a place where various nationalities, lifestyles, culture and religion thrive. And for every food-lover, Dubai is the place where all their gastronomic dreams come true. From the rich Italian cuisines, aromatic Indian spices, earthy Iranian dishes, Levantine delicacies to the soul-satisfying local Emirati cuisine, the city is brimming with thousand different flavours. Here’s where you can go to give your taste buds a whole new experience: Al Nafoorah Nestled at the feet of the Jumeirah Emirates Towers, Al Nafoorah is one of the finest Lebanese restaurants in the city. With the magnificent backdrop of the Dubai’s towering skyscrapers, this place transports you to the lands far away from the hustle-bustle of the city with its soothing ambience. Soak into the experie

GST Trolls on Restaurants: Uniform 5% Tax Without ITC Benefits

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Since its inception in India, Goods and Services Tax (GST) has made a severe impact on the various industry. The recent taxation regime levied 12% GST for non-AC restaurants and 18% GST on AC restaurants. In its 23rd meeting, GST Council has slashed down tax rate to uniform 5% without input tax credit (ITC) benefits. While welcoming the tax reduction, the restaurateurs have shown discontent with the Council’s decision of withdrawing the ITC benefit. Previously (GST with ITC benefits), the restaurants were allowed to adjust the tax that they have to pay on their transactions with the tax they have paid while purchasing inputs. Meanwhile, as per the current levy, the restaurants have to bear the burden of input costs also along with the tax that they have to pay on its transactions. However, the uniform 5% GST will not be applicable to the restaurants in hotels that charge Rs 7,500 or more per day for room tariff. Such restaurants have to pay the existing GST rate of 18%; howev
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How often have we come across insta-worthy pictures of scrumptious food with the famous #foodporn hashtag in our feed? Way too often is my bet. Social media is where the world is. And when it comes to the restaurant business, Twitter is the hub of foodies who are constantly on the lookout for dishes that satiate their taste buds. In short, your restaurant business has the right platform to attract new customers and engage your existing ones to build brand loyalty. However, social media is a crowded place. It takes a copious amount of effort, consistency and a dash of creativity to stand out from the noise. Here are 4 tips and strategies to nail your Twitter marketing. Getting started To start your Twitter journey, begin by deciding how you would like to portray your restaurant business . If you have multiple outlets, you need to decide whether you will create different accounts or handle all of them under one profile. In case you have a different menu, offers and promoti

Predictive Analytics: Data Can Foretell Sales!

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If BI is Not Analytics, What Is Analytics Then? Business intelligence (BI) can provide the business operator with details on what happened in the past and on how it happened but not on why it happened. The answer to the question “why” is more important as it has the ability to predict future sales of any business. If something that can analyse why the particular situation had happened, the answer will bring data-driven, unbiased information about future. Consider predictive analytics What Is Predictive Analytics? To predict the ever-changing business trends, the best tool in hand is predictive analytics, which is one of the advanced analytics. It uses various techniques such as statistics, artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, and so on to analyse plethora of available data to forecast the future market. Why Does Predictive Analytics Matter? Wherever human choice is involved, predictive analytics can be used to analyse the market in advance and predict

Our New Restaurant Management Software Venture!

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Clouddish is specially purported for restaurants with services extending from processing online orders, online payments, and on-time delivery to generating analytics and reports. Clouddish has been designed with the intention to simplify the disordered restaurant processes in an orderly way. Running a restaurant is a most challenging task when it requires a lot of management processes. Therefore, the restaurant operators have to involve huge manpower to handle the entire thing related to ordering, payments, delivery, table booking, analytics, report generating, and so on. Having taken all these into account, we have enhanced our restaurant app with feature-rich restaurant management products. Products Clouddish has been enriched with applications that are contemplated to simplify restaurant processes. Our tailor-made products are defined to be used wholly as well as individually by integrating it with an already existing system. Following is a list of products that feature elegan