Your Food is Good Enough

When you start a restaurant, you are starting a business. You must pay attention to several things. Perhaps one of the most critical mistakes a lot of restaurant owners make is that they try to continually make their food better. If there aren't enough customers, they try to make the food better. Why? They think that the better their food is, the more customers will like the restaurant and will come back. That's partly true, but it is mostly not. Restaurant owners should focus instead on the rest of their business. Accounting, inventory, advertising, vendors, etc. all need the owner's attention, too. These deserve equal amounts of time, if not more, than the food quality does.

Big Chains

Large, chain restaurants often have mediocre food, while great restaurants, with delicious food, often go out of business. Have you ever noticed that? The reason is because these large chain restaurants are not built to have excellent food. They are built to feed people. The quality of their food is an important element, yes, but it is not the only element. In terms of the best restaurant, the big chain restaurants are the best restaurants, because the whole restaurant works well. Smaller restaurants may have delicious food, but the rest of their restaurant business may be lacking. For example, their inventory system may be inefficient and lack a system to track everything, or their accounting system may not even be there at all.