how to survive the labor shortage
Everything isn’t out of your control! There really are things you can do. The health crisis and restaurant closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are finally starting to wind down. But trouble for the restaurant industry isn’t over yet. Now we…
Fighting Through the Fatigue
As I was going through articles I’d saved about how the COVID-19 Pandemic will affect the foodservice industry and how restaurants will need to respond to changing guest expectations, I came across this article in Inc. Magazine by Brian Hamilton…
How to get True ROI on Your Outdoor Dining Spaces – Part 2
By Steve Starr, principal, starrdesign In Part One of this series we tasked restaurant operators to answer several questions about their outdoor dining space. This was done to get operators thinking about and thinking through the best ways to…
How to get True ROI on Your Outdoor Dining Spaces
We started researching this topic long before the COVID-19 pandemic to quantify the return on our clients’ investment for outdoor dining spaces. Many of our clients were investing significantly into their outdoor dining spaces, while others were…