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Satisfy your Taste Buds with Attractive Restaurant Deals of Kolkata and Bengaluru

Satisfy your Taste Buds with Attractive Restaurant Deals of Kolkata and Bengaluru

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In today’s economy when the cost of every product is rising, people are looking for the options through which they can cut their expenses. This is the reason behind people preferring online shopping that offer them opportunity of saving good amount. With the popularity of online shopping many such websites were developed to provide consumers with the opportunity of enjoying shopping from the comfort of their home. In India also quite a large section of population are attracted towards the online shopping due to attractive deals and discounts that are offered to consumers on different products and services. The shopping websites cover several business sectors and as a result people looking to dining out in some renowned restaurants of metro cities can look for best restaurant deals of Delhi, Gurgaon, Bengaluru, Kolkata or any other Indian cities.From the past few years the ideal and attractive restaurant deals offered by reputed restaurants of metro cities like Delhi and Bengaluru have become a mainstay of Indian dining culture. This has changed the way of restaurant business and also the way through which the consumer select the best dining option in their town. Best restaurant deals either offer a certain percentage off on a specific food item or certain percentage discount on the total bill. Everyday new deals and discounts offered by different restaurants of the cities like Gurgaon and Kolkata are posted on the websites, which consumers can avail as per their requirements. Restaurants deals of Delhi and Gurgaon has motivated many people to go out for dining, which otherwise people would have either canceled or postponed due to financial crunch. Few years back people would have not even imagined the concept of restaurant deals offered by good restaurants of cities like Kolkata and Bengaluru but the popularity of online shopping and people dependency on these websites have brought several such attractive deals and discounts that prove beneficial for both restaurant owners and consumers. People can visit different shopping websites in order to find the best restaurant deals offered by their preferred restaurant. Besides attractive discount and savings people love to shop through online websites due to comfort and convenience that these websites provide. All one need to find such deal is a computer with Internet connection and they are through with the deal.There are several websites that offer daily deals and discounts on any particular product or service and this deal is just valid for a single day. Any deal offered by such websites is valid for only limited periods for the customers to avail this benefit as soon as possible. Due to great savings option these websites are extensively in demand as the customers can discount from 20 to 30 % to as big as 70 to 90%. Restaurant deals in Delhi, Gurgaorn, Kolkata and Bengaluru are extremely popular among the customers as this deal offer great option of dining out at extremely reasonable price.

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Restaurant Management

Restaurants Can Beat the Chains – Exceed the Guest’s Expectations

Restaurants Can Beat the Chains – Exceed the Guest’s Expectations

Larry Edger

Restaurant marketing is an eternal project than begins before your doors open and continues 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The art of combining communication, selling and delivery of your product will directly impact the level of success you achieve in any business. In the typical restaurant enterprise, you can only survive with repeat business. Return customers are the ultimate culmination and reward of the marketing process.

The whole complicated marketing strategy can be summed up in four words meeting the guest’s expectations. This is where the chains shine. You really don’t go into a Taco Bell anticipating a life changing experience or an Olive Garden for the most romantic experience of your life. Both of these restaurants, at two ends of the price scale, offer customers only decent food for the price, in a reasonable atmosphere, with acceptable service and convenience. That is it! No more, no less, and that is what they deliver consistently.

As an independent restaurant you have to learn from the chains. It’s not enough to be as good as they are, but you have to figure out what they don’t do. Essentially, you must exceed the guest’s expectations. I know of one restaurant owner who spent very little money on the exterior of the building. However, the minute you walked in the door your first impressions were dashed by the gorgeous surroundings you found yourself in. The owner’s philosophy was to immediately impress the guest. Your food cannot be the same as other restaurants in your class – it must excel. Service must have a surprise; friendlier, more personable or more extravagant.

If a prospective customer has never tasted your food, seen your restaurant or experienced your service, what would they expect the experience on their first visit to be? Good food? Good service? Good experience? That is mediocre enough! That applies to most of your competition and certainly the vast majority of the chains. How low on the scale of mediocrity can you go before you fail due to being like everyone else?

One of the most difficult learning experiences I have had in the restaurant business is figuring out the subjective views of diners. Opinions vary on what is good food or at least acceptable food. Even more diversity is assured when assessing service. My expectations, when dining out may be much lower than someone else. What motivates me to revisit or recommend a restaurant may be miles apart from the next guest.

While we offer 50 different ways to market your restaurant in The Restaurant Ebook, here are some things over the years that have placed one restaurant or another firmly in my mind;

•A restaurant once served our group a sample of their Sangria of the evening as we were seated. It was not only unexpected, but refreshing while waiting on our server. Great way to minimize wait, sell a product and create an unexpected service.

•My party once enjoyed the welcoming sounds of a Mexican roaming band as we were seated and a bow with a welcome in Spanish that the server subsequently explained as tradition in Hidalgo to treat guests as special family.

•While making a reservation for a special occasion, the person on the phone asked if I would like a rose at the lady’s plate for a charge, which I quickly accepted.

•Another run down shack of a place in the Florida keys, served the freshest seafood possible, since behind the shack were fishermen bringing their catch in, cleaning them and straight to the table after choosing your cooking method. From the front, the restaurant was not looking like the fresh food venue it turned out to be. Awesome fish, crabs and spiny lobster. They vastly exceeded my expectations.

•Fast food (as well as chains) is a rare choice for me, but I do try new restaurants of all types. Recently a new chain of hamburger QSR’s expanded into my area. I kept hearing about their great hamburger. There were several media articles about the chain, but that wasn’t what motivated me. The first time I heard about the chain was a customer at one of my restaurants who told me about a grand opening of one of the locations. He told me how good the hamburger was and that it was free. The chain offered free food on opening day. A subsequent guest mentioned the chain and the quality of the burger. Two referrals were enough to motivate me! Their product was very good, but they were masters of marketing.

Here are some lessons learned;

•The free food on opening day made a lot of sense. It cost no more than an advertising blitz would have cost and got people talking!

•The first thing on their short menu board (about eight items) was their “famous” burger supposedly voted No. 1 at various venues around the country. It also happened to be the most expensive thing on the board, a double burger at .89 with your choice of additions free.

•French fries were “hand-cut”, but the real kicker was after filling the Styrofoam cup they served them in and placing it in the bag with the burger, they threw in another handful of fries on top of the contents. This last detail made it seem you were getting more for your money and there are few people who haven’t reached in the bag to snag a French fry or two before un-wrapping the burger or while driving home. By the way, the fries were .69, no bargain, but the delivery of the product made you forget the price.

•Finally, their product, the burger. There was nothing to dislike! They did it right. The cooks placed the burgers on the griddle, without smashing the juices out of it on the turn. After the first turn the bun went on top for steaming. The two slices of cheese were placed on the sandwich and wrapped in plain foil which produced a perfectly melted cheese and moist, juicy burger. It was better than most QSR’s, as well it should when you walk out with a .13 bill including tax and drink from a fast food joint.

These and many other memories make the exceptional restaurant stand way out in front of the mediocre and poor experiences I have encountered. When someone is in the area of one of the operations above, I can recommend these extraordinary experiences to them. That is great marketing when it brings new guests and cements a relationship with an old customer.

What makes your restaurant stand out in the guest’s mind? For more ideas see what other restaurants are doing at Restaurant in the Weeds. Creating an unforgettable memory will bring more guests than a month’s worth of newspaper advertising.

Multi-concept restaurant owner, author of The Restaurant Ebook as well as other titles.

Restaurant Marketing

Franchise exhibition is an excellent opportunity

Franchise exhibition is an excellent opportunity to start buying franchise business, in the franchise exhibition, not only see many Pipe and Drape system for the booth. We can also choose different types of food businesses and business service sectors, all depending on the interest in what we will buy later, the franchise exhibition participants trade show booths usually make very interesting, sometimes they use the services of Sales Promotion Girl, and usually we get a variety of very informative and interesting brochures, commonly offered by the guards stand in front of banner stands, and we were also given a lot of information how the excess of their business? And how much cost needed to start a business has to offer?

Before we buy a franchise business, the most important part is to know first whether your business is at least matched by their business, my advice is doesn’t buy a business that you don’t know at all, because it would trouble, measure the financial capability whether you be able to finance all sorts according to the amount of costs to be incurred, and most importantly, ask them whether they would give support if you buy a franchise business eg. how to get their products? Alternatively, how to find their raw materials and sales support campaign before you start? Alternatively, when the business is running? Without the full support, we will get some distress.

In the exhibition franchise, not all participants followed the exhibition business is a franchise business, because many exhibitors are an entrepreneur who is not a franchise business, that carries both kinds of a business opportunity and licenses even we can guess it via their logo on the table skirts, so you must ask first whether the business is a franchise or instead, although looks the same but have different business concept and franchise businesses usually already have proven track records, and the documents are complete.

Best Jersey Shore Restaurant Guide

Best Jersey Shore Restaurant Guide

Frank Melocco

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Catering Equipment In Focus: Induction Hobs

Catering Equipment In Focus: Induction Hobs

Equip Supply

Recently a new Italian restaurant opened in my area. Before official opening day the owner spent a lot of time researching her options when it came to catering equipment. She came up with a list of what she considered were “must have” catering supplies for her new business. One item on her list was an induction hob. At about the time the list was completed, she successfully hired a head chef with outstanding culinary experience who would ultimately hold responsibility for all food to be served in the restaurant. One of the first things the chef said to the owner when he came on board was that he would not work with an induction hob. In his words it was not “real cooking”! So how do we explain such anathema? Is there really a big difference between cooking with an induction hob and using a normal range? Well let’s take a look.

How Do Induction Hobs Work?Traditional cooking methods work through the generation of heat in a stovetop by electronic coils or burning gas. In contrast, induction cooking involves heat being generated directly inside the cooking vessel. A powerful electro-magnet below the hob’s glass surface connects to the molecules of the ferrous material in the pan above and produces an oscillating magnetic field. This field induces an electric current inside the pot and creates the heat necessary for cooking purposes. The amount of heat produced depends on the amount of electrical flow. Since this flow is extremely easy to control, induction cooking allows for instantaneous adjustments to be made during the cooking process – a great advantage of the induction method.

Benefits of Induction HobsThis takes us very nicely to the other benefits of induction cooking. Now that we know how induction hobs work it is not surprising that the most obvious benefit of using an induction hob is speed. Since the heat is produced directly inside the cooking vessel the cooking process is much quicker than would be seen if using traditional stovetops. A pan of water can reach boiling pan in just ten seconds.

Secondly induction cooking is much more energy efficient. This comes from the fact that 1) it uses much less power than a standard gas or electric hob 2) it allows for instantaneous control of heat and 3) it minimizes wastage of energy by not heating the air around the cooking vessel.

Thirdly induction cooking is safer. Not only is there no naked flame or hot heating element involved, an induction unit is able to detect whether cookware is present (or whether it’s contents have boiled dry) by monitoring how much power is being absorbed. As a result induction hobs are able to offer a minimum boil facility or automatically turn off when cookware is removed.

Finally induction cookers are easy to clean because the cooking surface is flat and smooth, even though it may have several heating zones. Since the cooking surface is not directly heated, spilled food does not burn.

The DownsideInduction hobs only work with cooking vessels that are made of a ferromagnetic metal and have flat bottoms. Glass, ceramics, solid copper and/or solid aluminium cookware cannot be used. So if you are introducing an induction hob into an established kitchen you may have to factor in the expense of new pans. You can test whether your existing pans would be suitable by seeing if a magnet sticks to the base. If it does then the pan is suitable.

Also the glass ceramic top that is found on induction hobs has to be treated with care. It can be damaged very easily. Caution should particularly be taken when using foil around induction hobs. Melted foil on the surface can result in permanent damage to the top.

Another more minor concern is the noise generated by induction hobs. The noise may be the low volume whirring of an internal cooling fan or a whistling, whining sound from the cookware placed on the unit. In any case it is unlikely to be audible enough to be a major problem.

Of more concern is the risk to people using electronic medical implants such as cardiac pacemakers. The magnetic fields generated by induction hobs might put the effectiveness of such implants at risk.

ConclusionSo what’s our conclusion? Well induction cooking is certainly different from cooking on a traditional gas or electric stovetop. However if you’re fine with the cost of purchasing an induction hob and the possible additional cost of purchasing appropriate pans there is no reason why you should not go for it. Resistance to induction hobs from chefs probably stems from fear of change rather than any negative impact of induction hobs on the food produced. If that resistance can be overcome there are many benefits to be had.

Equipsupply Ltd specialises in supplying catering equipment to professional kitchens. Cooking equipment, commercial refrigeration, warewashing equipment and counters are just some of the catering supplies on offer. Please visit http://www.equipsupply.co.uk to find out more.