Desperate times, creative measures
7 ways for grocers to gain customer attention when budgets are stretched “Improvise. Overcome. Adapt.” It sounds easy enough when a square-jawed, upright Clint Eastwood barks orders to a group of elite Marines in the film Heartbreak Ridge. But for American consumers,...
How high can you go?
7 ways to keep and satisfy customers if supply chain disruptions mean raising prices “Redundancy” and “replacements” are clearly means to avoid supply shortages. The reality is, there are only so much of a given item and a limited number of appropriate replacements...
Maybe you CAN go home again
Who would have imagined that bottles of ketchup and mustard, and salt and pepper shakers placed in the middle of a restaurant table would ever have been viewed as a good sign for the future of restaurants? After the crazy year that restaurants and bars around the...
Order like it’s 1999
How can independent restaurants strike a retro-digital balance?
Local and independently owned restaurants have had to make some difficult choices over the last year, but some found that solutions from the “good old days” turned out to be surprisingly helpful over the digital.
As independent, neighborhood restaurants have been forced to adjust operations since the COVID 19 crisis hit, many decided to rely more heavily on 3rd party delivery mobile apps for sales – – a reasonable “pivot” in a sudden emergency.