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10 Restaurant KPIs + One Easy Way to Improve Them

by Michael C. Rosone |

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If you’re serious about maximizing the success of your restaurant(s), you’re tracking restaurant KPIs to learn where you need to make changes to improve service and boost profitability. 

Here’s an easy and relatively inexpensive change that pays off across your operation: invest in regular HVAC & refrigeration maintenance. HVAC maintenance improves the comfort of your dining room, making customers more likely to spend more and visit again. Refrigeration maintenance impacts food costs, safety, and quality. 

Here are 10 restaurant KPIs you’re probably tracking, and how maintenance can improve your performance.

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NYC: Surviving the Heat is Like Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse

by Michael C. Rosone |

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Surviving the heat in NYC: 5 ways you’re doing it wrong.

When NYC’s temperatures flirt with triple digits, surviving the heat in your sweltering office or apartment may seem impossible. Surviving a zombie apocalypse seems a whole lot easier. Yet experts say we can learn a lot about surviving the heat from the top tips about what to do (and what not to do) when facing a legion of reanimated corpses.

Surviving the heat in NYC, like surviving a zombie apocalypse, requires that you know what you’re doing and have the proper plan in place. Here’s what you are almost certainly doing wrong, and how to change your ways so you don’t get eaten alive by the summer heat and humidity.

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What You Need to Know About Refrigerant Safety and Your HVAC System

by Michael C. Rosone |

If It’s Bad for the Ozone Layer, It’s Bad for You.

If you’re a facility manager, you may think all you need to know about your air conditioning system is that it’s working properly. If the building is cool, why worry about how that happens?

The reason you should be concerned is that refrigerants, the chemicals in your air conditioner that actually do the cooling, can pose a serious threat to your building’s occupants (not to mention the planet’s ozone layer) if not handled properly.

It’s important to understand the potential dangers posed by refrigerants so you make sure to hire only qualified technicians to work on your air conditioning system, and so that you take precautions to prevent any accidents from occurring in your building.Read More

The 6 Step Guide to NYC Restaurant Energy Savings

by Michael C. Rosone |

In the restaurant business, how do you keep your profits consistent when costs are continuously rising? Food prices, utility rates and wages are going nowhere but up. Especially in New York City where competition is fierce, you probably aren’t in a position to raise prices to offset increased expenses. So what can you do? You need to find a way to cut operating costs without impacting the quality of your product or the comfort of your guests.

A surprisingly effective strategy is to focus on energy efficiency. According to ENERGY STAR, the average restaurant uses 5 to 7 times more energy per square foot than other commercial buildings. If yours is a quick-service restaurant, you may be using up to 10 times more energy. That’s a lot of cash that could be going toward your bottom line. If you can save 20 percent on energy costs, that could increase your profit margin by as much as one-third.Read More

Low-Cost & No-Cost Energy Saving Tips for Restaurants

by Michael Rosone |

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If you’re interested in reducing energy usage and costs, you’ve come to the right place. There are plenty of energy saving tips for restaurants that lower energy consumption and your bills. Here’s the good news: not all energy saving tips for restaurants require a huge capital outlay.

First, let’s take a closer look at the root of the problem.

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Restaurant Health Inspection: How Neglected Refrigeration Fails You

by Michael C. Rosone |

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Your restaurant’s “A” grade is something to be proud of. It’s a sign for all your customers (literally, right there in your front window) that you have passed your NYC restaurant health inspection with flying colors. And it’s proof of the superior quality of your food preparation. Diners are confident of getting a great meal prepared safely when they see top NYC health department restaurant grades.

Because that “A” is so critical to the success of your business, we’re betting you go to great lengths to make sure you maintain it through every restaurant health inspection. That means training your staff about proper food handling techniques, being vigilant about cleaning and preventing pests, and checking the temperature of cooked food.

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