Spot check evaluations
Spot check evaluations can help improve the performance of your staff. Instead of waiting for the big performance review, why not give them mini-evaluations over the course of the year?
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Get a deal on everything: Marketing edition
You have to spend money to make money, and these days you don’t need to spend that much.
California Tortilla is proud of its wacky marketing campaigns—most of which happen on a pretty small budget. To launch their popular Fish Taco two years ago, the chain's founder came dressed up as a scuba diver and had buckets of water dumped on him—all recorded for posterity in a goofy YouTube video.
A hurricane is disruptive whenever it hits, but as the full force of Irene swept the East coast over the weekend—the most lucrative days for restaurants—industry folks had to instantly come up with their own disaster plans. And they had to let their customers know pretty quickly. Alerts sent out through Facebook, Twitter, texts and blogs ranged from the serious to the quirky.