Eric Elwell CEO 2TouchPOS

Getting to know more about how your business is doing is sort of like going to the Dr. for a checkup!   Yes you’ll have to get a thorough look at every report and make sure your sales are progressing and are as profitable as you have planned them to be. Just like the Dr. you will identify problems and diagnose issues so that you can keep the health of your establishment on track. In my previous blog, I talked a bit about using goal-setting tactics to strategize for your expected growth in the upcoming year.   Using the three management practices as your goal-setting toolbox has some great benefits. Just remember that the benefits also include having   staff members invested in your plans.   This creates better outcomes for you and your business and motivates you to monitor your sales more closely; so that you will check pricing and profits consistently ensuring your overall success. Sometimes pushing your staff toward a goal means that you need to stay one-step ahead of them.

Now that we are starting the New Year you may want to take a look at your business and set new goals. By planning for your year you are actually deploying a method to have a better year for your business.   The three areas that are restaurant business centric are Guest Count Management, Effective Sales Management, and Menu Engineering.   To improve your business you should take the time to review your sales history from the past year.  Next;  plan to increase numbers in all three of these areas by targeting the percentage of increase that you think is achievable, measurable and that you can attain by involving each member of your team. You are probably wondering how to approach this.   So let’s talk about that right now.   Look at your guest counts using sales history reports.   Look at the dates, sales information, and your growth from last year.   You should be able to identify which months were your best with regards to sales, which were worst and what impacted the