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4 months ago

The real profit starts after the busy day ends.

Follow up. Organise the data. Keep the relationship alive.

One customer remembered is worth more than one new customer found.

Save this for the next holiday. by @calodeai

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5 months ago

Your menu sells the restaurant before the food does.

Bad photos. Weak descriptions. Generic app listings. Lost orders.

A better menu means better margins and better first impressions.

Save this. Tag an owner still letting apps control the story. by @calodeai

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3 days ago

Restaurant owners: the fuel surcharge on your food invoice is charged per delivery, not per case.

Four numbers:
$6.18. US average diesel, week of 12 October (EIA).
+$2.51. The rise on the same week last year.
$12. What one national distributor's published grid adds to each delivery when diesel sits between $6.00 and $6.49.
$3,120. Five deliveries a week at $12, for a year.

A truck with one case pays the same fuel line as a truck with forty. So the cheapest fix this winter is fewer, fuller drops. Three a week instead of five keeps $1,248 on that grid. Your contract and your region may differ, so read the fuel line on your last invoice.

Send this to the owner who takes produce, dairy and dry goods on different days because that is how the rep set it up.

How many deliveries do you take a week? Be exact.

Sources: EIA Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update, US Foods and Performance Foodservice fuel surcharge notices.

#restaurantowner #foodcost #restaurantbusiness #restaurantmanagement Carousel for restaurant owners on the fuel surcharge on food invoices: diesel at $6.18, $12 per delivery on one distributor's grid, $3,120 a year for five drops a week. by @calodeai

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4 days ago

Restaurant owners: your opening manager cut a server at 6pm. Your closing manager wants her back.

Neither one says it to the other. Both say it to the bartender.
By close, the kitchen has picked one side and the floor has picked the other.
You hear about it on Monday, as a resignation.

They are not fighting about policy. Nobody ever wrote down who decides.
One page settles it: each call that keeps causing a fight, the one person who makes it, and your signature at the bottom.

Send this to the owner with an AM manager and a PM manager who "just need to get along".

Who decides when a server gets cut in your place? One name, or two?

#restaurantowner #restaurantmanagement #restaurantlife #servicelife Carousel for restaurant owners about two managers at war over cutting a server, and the one page that says who decides each call. by @calodeai

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5 days ago

Cafe owners: your iPhone camera changed in iOS 27, and five settings decide if your pastry case looks fresh or flat online.

Today was line 18 of our scorecard. Comment SCORE and we will send you the other 19.

Most food photo advice stops at "use natural light". The bigger problem is a camera you never set up, so every photo comes out a different shape and brightness.

Set it once:

1. Open Camera, tap the tools button, tap Edit, add Exposure and Aspect, then tap Done.
2. Tap Aspect and pick 4:3. Hold the phone upright. Instagram crops your grid to 3:4 tiles and feed posts stop at 4:5, so 4:3 upright fits both.
3. Tap 2x and take one step back. No more leaning over the glass.
4. Touch and hold the food until AE/AF Lock shows, then drag the sun down a little so a white plate keeps its detail.
5. Settings, Camera, turn on Grid and Level. Then Preserve Settings, turn on Exposure Adjustment.

Save this for the next quiet afternoon when you have ten minutes and your phone.

Send it to the friend who shoots their pastry case at 7am under the strip lights and wonders why it looks flat.

Comment SCORE for the full 20 point scorecard.

#cafeowner #foodphotography #iphonephotography #restaurantmarketing #bakeryowner by @calodeai

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6 days ago

Restaurant owners: there are two ways to cut the same 40 minutes of labor, and only one of them stays cut.

On the timecard, a manager moves the clock-out to 10:00 while side work runs to 10:40. The labor report looks better. The server sees it on payday.

On the schedule, you:
• cut the last hour using your sales by hour report
• send the first person home at the first slow stretch, not at close
• start side work before close, so closing is shorter

Under federal law, the Labor Department can recover unpaid wages plus an equal amount in damages. State rules can add more. Check yours.

On Toast, the check takes one screen: Reports, Labor, Time entry audits. Read it once a week before payroll goes out.

Send this to the owner whose labor comes in at the same neat percentage every week and who has never asked how.

Who checks the punch edits in your place, and how often?

#restaurantowners #restaurantlabor #restaurantmanagement #laborcost #restaurantbusiness Versus carousel for restaurant owners comparing two ways to cut labor, editing timecards against changing the schedule, with a 40 minute side work example. by @calodeai

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7 days ago

Restaurant owners, a founder note from Sufyan at Calode.

We teach restaurants how to grow online. On 22 September we cut our own page from five posts a day to one.

The honest numbers since then: 10 posts, 8 likes, 0 comments, 9 days we missed, and 239 followers, down from 265.

Most of that is on us. We broke our own rule of one post every day, and we never went out and talked to anyone.

So the plan stays. One post a day at the same time, real comments on other owners' posts every day, and the numbers posted here again in early November, good or bad.

Send this to the friend who opened this year and posts every day to almost nobody. They are not the only one.

What moved your page when it was this quiet?

#restaurantowner #restaurantmarketing #smallbusinessowner #instagramforbusiness Founder note from Calode for restaurant owners with our real Instagram numbers since 22 September: 10 posts, 8 likes and 0 comments. by @calodeai

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8 days ago

Restaurant owners: the week in restaurant news, 4 to 10 October, in five stories you can act on.

1. Diesel is $6.20 a gallon, up $2.49 on a year ago (EIA, week of 5 Oct). US Foods publishes a surcharge grid that adds $1 to each delivery for every 50 cents diesel rises. Read the fuel line on your next invoice and ask if fewer, fuller drops would cut it.

2. Uber Eats is buying ezCater for $2.3 billion (Restaurant Dive, 6 Oct). ezCater has 140,000+ restaurant partners and a $400+ average order. Save a copy of your current terms.

3. Google Maps named its first Fan-Favorite restaurants in 10 cities, five in the US, from a year of reviews, ratings and direction requests (NRN, 8 Oct).

4. Kura Sushi swapped its 300 point sign-up bonus for a free soft drink on joining (Restaurant Dive, 7 Oct). The first reward now lands on day one.

5. McDonald's says it does not use AI to change prices in real time. Its tools recommend prices per restaurant and franchisees decide (Restaurant Dive, 5 Oct).

Save this for Monday, when you sit down with the invoices.
Send it to the owner who signs the produce invoice without reading the fuel line.

Which one lands on your desk first? Comment the number.

#restaurantowner #restaurantnews #restaurantbusiness #foodcost #restaurantmarketing Carousel for restaurant owners with the week in restaurant news, 4 to 10 October 2026: diesel costs, Uber Eats buying ezCater, Google Maps fan-favorite lists, Kura Sushi rewards and McDonald's pricing. by @calodeai

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9 days ago

Restaurant owners: the way you ask for Google reviews can get your real reviews removed.

Most advice says ask the happy tables, get servers to ask, maybe give a free dessert. Google's own policy bans all three.

What Google bans:
• Any reward for a review: payment, a discount, a free item
• Asking only the guests who look happy
• Pressure to review while they are still inside
• Asking guests to name a staff member
• Review targets for your staff

What Google can do: remove reviews, hide them, block new ones for a while, and show guests a banner saying suspicious reviews were removed.

The fair way:
• Copy your link: Read reviews, then Get more reviews, then Share
• Text every guest who ordered, the morning after
• Same words for everyone: "If you have a minute, we would love an honest Google review. Good or bad, we read every one."
• Put the link on receipts and in takeaway bags
• Reply to every review, good and bad

Save this for your next staff meeting, before anyone prints a new table card.

Send it to the owner who pays servers a bonus when a review names them.

How do you ask for Google reviews right now? by @calodeai

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10 days ago