Increasing profit margins

I heard a veteran restauranteer’s theory for increasing profit margins. He raised lower-priced menu items more than the higher-priced menu items. Why? He believed that the customers who ordered the high end menu items were there for an evening dining experience, not a...

Lifestyle Discrimination Suits a New Trend

There is a new flavor of discrimination suit being lodged by employees – the lifestyle discrimination suit. Employees alledge discrimination when their “lifestyle choices” are prohibited in the workplace. These include lifestyle choices such as tattoos, piercings and...

You can be your own landlord. Really, the SLA says so!!

There are a lot of documents, applications and questionnaires that must be submitted when applying for a liquor license with the State Liquor Authority. The SLA has started enforce yet another requirement to the ever-growing list of things that are submitted in order...

Exempt activities under the 200 foot rule

Applicants for a liquor license often are faced with the 200 foot rule which prohibits any license from being issued for premises within 200 feet of a building used exclusively as a school, church, synagogue or place of worship. If you receive a denial of your...

New Employee Orientation at Your Restaurant or Bar

You find yourself in need of additional help and desperately put your new hire in place so that the business continues to run smoothly. Even with the best of intentions to have a comprehensive new employee orientation to introduce new employees to the workplace and...