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DOWNLOAD: Menu & Recipe Cost Spreadsheet Template
Knowing what each of your menu items costs is one of the most basic yet overlooked aspects of running a profitable restaurant. This comprehensive spreadsheet template will give you an easy-to-use tool to calculate and maintain the current cost of your menu and recipes. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Employee Corrective Action Notice
Managers should bring employee work-related problems to the attention of the employee as soon as the behavior becomes troublesome. Use this form to assist you to communicate, document and initiate corrective action with the employee. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Manager Bonus Review Template
How does your Manager know if they're meeting expectations for their bonus plan if you never tell them? Use the Management Bonus Plan Evaluation/Review to provide constructive feedback on how they are doing and ways to improve their performance. This form will help you step back and look at how they are performing in all the major areas of responsibility. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Closing Your Restaurant Business Checklist
Unfortunately, some restaurants don't make it and at some point closing the doors may seem like the only option. Use this checklist to help you create a closing plan for the many tasks you'll encounter such as paying employees, filing your last tax reports, dealing with unpaid vendors, closing bank and credit card accounts, and evaluating bankruptcy options. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: POS Evaluation Worksheet
Selecting a POS system is one of the most important decisions a restaurant operators makes. The POS Evaluation Worksheet lists the many features to consider in choosing a POS. Use it as a tool to organize and compare the features of different POS systems. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Menu Engineering Worksheets
Menu engineering is one of the most profitable exercises any operator can engage in. Use this powerful and fully automated tool to assess the profitability of your menu items based on their food cost, selling price, gross margin and popularity. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Restaurant Training Manual Templates
Having comprehensive, easy-to-understand training manuals for every position in your restaurant is vital for new employees to learn to perform their jobs the "right way." Use these templates as a guide to create your own detailed restaurant training manuals for server, bartender, busser, prep cook, line cook, dishwasher . . .
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DOWNLOAD: Restaurant Checklists
Successful restaurants use checklists to ensure consistent execution throughout their operation. Includes opening, closing, shift change, purchasing, receiving, storage, preparation, cleaning checklists and our most popular download, the Customer Service Checklist. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Customer Complaint/Response Letters
Nobody's perfect, so how a restaurant handles customer complaints can make a big difference to their future sales and profits. These templates can help you respond quickly & effectively to turn those disappointed diners into loyal customers. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Restaurant Newsletter Templates
Get a jump on the creation of your personalized customer newsletter by downloading these ready-to-use templates. They're available in four different styles to fit your unique restaurant's image . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Restaurant Business Plan Template
A professional, well-conceived restaurant business plan is absolutely essential for an independent restaurant venture to obtain funding and have any real chance for success. Our business plan templates will provide you with the tools to develop & communicate your plan in a professional, compelling format that will enhance your chances of securing capital and making your plan a reality. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Catering/Event Worksheet
Catering and other special events can be a very profitable source of additional business especially when operators accurately estimate their costs and set prices accordingly. The Catering/Event Worksheet is a tool to help you quickly estimate the food, beverage, paper, equipment and staffing costs for a particular event. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Alcohol Management Program
A comprehensive Alcohol Management Program is essential to providing responsible alcohol service. The material offered in this program is intended to be used as a guide and educational tool to develop a responsible, knowledgeable staff with regard to serving alcoholic beverages. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Restaurant Employee Handbook Template
A comprehensive Employee Handbook is crucial to the success of your business and the retention of your people. Use this template to develop one of the most important documents in any restaurant. Put your own unique set of employee policies, procedures and practices in writing so that everyone on your staff knows the rules and your expectations. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Customer Service Checklist
Every restaurant needs to create a large core of repeat customers and the most effect way to keep your guests coming back is by taking care of them with exceptional service. Use this checklist as a guide for deciding what your service staff should be doing to ensure your guests come back again and again. It will help you and your staff quickly become aware of basic service procedures and standards. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Prime Vendor Forms
A prime vendor program can be one of the easiest ways to lower your food cost & reduce non-productive purchasing time. Here are all the forms you need to help you choose the right distributor & get the best deal. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Daily Voids Log Sheet
Theft prevention 101 - never let your bartenders, servers or cashiers void items after they have been rung up. It's ok to give them the ability to void (item correct) an item "while" they are in the process of ringing the check; however, once the check has been recorded (saved or printed) then only management should be allowed to perform a void function. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Food Cost Yield Calculator
The Food Cost Yield Calculator is a flexible Microsoft Excel? set of spreadsheets designed to aid restaurant owners, chefs, and managers in determining the true cost of the raw products used to produce menu items. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Bartender Checklists
Use the Bartender Checklists for creating your own unique set of checklists for opening, closing, and maintaining your bar operations. This document comes in a word processing file format. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Restaurant Marketing Promotion Tracking Template
Many restaurants spend from 2-4% of revenue on marketing. The most successful ones track their promotions so they "know" which ones work & which don't. Use this template so you can concentrate your efforts & dollars on your most productive marketing activities. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Restaurant Startup & Feasibility Model (Tableservice version)
Whether you're planning to start your first restaurant or add another location, analyzing the financial feasibility of the project is essential. These series of linked spreadsheets have been refined over several years on a wide variety and number of actual restaurant ventures and formal restaurant business plans. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Competitor Pay Rate Survey
If you want to know what the market pay rates are for restaurant staffing in your area, begin by finding out what your competition is paying. Use this form to collect and record the pay rates of area restaurants for simlilar job positions . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Server Sidework Checklist
Servers have sidework duties in addition to their primary service tasks. So that these tasks are completed consistently, it's important to have detailed checklists so that everyone knows what they're responsible for. Download a sample and learn how to quickly create your own detailed sidework checklists. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Running Inventory Worksheet
Is someone stealing your food? How would you know? Tracking the use of your top 10-12 products is a powerful theft deterrent. Employees notice when you count things and it affects what they think they can get away with. Download this worksheet to help you get started immediately. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Catering Marketing Letter Templates
Need a creative boost to jump-start your catering sales? Use these ready-to-use marketing letters to introduce your restaurant to prospective catering clients. These templates include four sample introductory letters that you can send to your direct mail or email list of prospects. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Competitor Review
With the economic slowdown, the always dynamic restaurant industry has become even more so. Like you, your competition is making changes. Here's a tool to find out what the other restaurants in your immediate market area are doing so you can develop strategies to compete with them more effectively. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Customer Comment Card - Spanish Version
This is the Spanish version of our popular Customer Comment Card download. Ideal for use in markets where Hispanic populations are the predominant demographic. Everything is in Spanish except the return mailing address . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Period Sales and Labor Log Sheet
Use this Excel spreadsheet form to quickly and easily keep track of daily sales, check average, sales per labor hour and much more. Each worksheet has space to record daily totals for up to five weeks each period - all on one form. Built-in formulas keep daily, weekly and period totals for several key profitability indicators . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: QSR Training Manual Templates
Having comprehensive, easy-to-understand training manuals for every position in your QSR is vital for new employees to learn to perform their jobs the "right way." Use these templates as a guide to create your own detailed training manuals for cashier/counter, drive-thru, lobby, prep cook, line cook, expediter . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Weekly Prime Cost Worksheet
Independents who calculate and analyze their food and labor each week instead of just monthly, report a prime cost savings of 2-5% of sales. Get your weekly food and labor costs quickly and efficiently with this series of Excel worksheets. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: New Restaurant Opening Manual - Spanish Edition
While every new restaurant opening has it's unique requirements, this 50 page manual - now in Spanish - can be a useful guide to anticipate, organize and plan the primary activities that every new restaurant must execute well to have a successful opening. Includes weekly checklists, forms, schedules for procuring products, services, marketing activities, employee hiring, training & more. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Restaurant Marketing Planning Calendar
Today, sales growth doesn't just happen, it requires proper planning and execution! This Microsoft Excel® workbook is a great tool for organizing your promotions for the entire year onto a single spreadsheet that shows the dates of each promotion and the tasks required to make them happen . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Annual Restaurant Budget Worksheets
How will your restaurant perform in 2010? Studies have shown that companies who prepare annual operating budgets are more successful than those who don't. Use this budget worksheet to quickly prepare you annual financial plan to give you and your staff specific, measurable goals throughout the coming year. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: 4-Week Periods for 2010 to 2013
If you want to convert to a 4-week reporting cycle now is the time to get ready to do it. This series of Excel worksheets breaks down years 2010 to 2013 into 4-week periods beginning on the first Monday of 2010. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Restaurant Order Guide Form
An effective ordering system has added benefits that go beyond the simple goal of maintaining sufficient product to serve your guests. Proper ordering procedures also help to keep fresh product in stock and serves as a backup just in case the person doing the ordering isn't there. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: FSR Inventory Spreadsheet
Make counting and calculating your end of month food and beverage inventory easier and more accurate with this spreadsheet designed for Full Service Restaurants. Invest a few hours to enter your specific products and unit prices and thereafter, the form will do all the extensions and total your categories automatically. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Restaurant Preventative Maintenance Calendar
As your kitchen equipment and building get older, your cost for repair and maintenance keep growing. This template will help you quickly create a preventative maintenance program helps to keep things in working order longer and keep repair expenses in check . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Weekly Planning Guide Template
Carrying out your restaurant's annual plan is done one week at a time. Managers who excel in weekly planning tend to be more knowledgeable of unit profitability and shift preparedness. Use this template as a guide to create your own weekly agenda form. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Social Media Policy Template for Restaurants
Following the Domino's YouTube fiasco restaurant operators became aware of the downside risks of unofficial social media activities by their employees. The first step in protecting your restaurant is by informing your employees with a thorough, easily understood policy about what is appropriate use of social media sites and what is not. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: New Restaurant Opening Manual
While every new restaurant opening has it's unique requirements, this 50 page manual can be a useful guide to anticipate, organize and plan the primary activities that every new restaurant must execute well to have a successful opening. Includes weekly checklists, forms, schedules for procuring products, services, marketing activities, employee hiring, training & more. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Rent Reduction Request Letter
Having a hard time paying your rent? It may be time to talk to your landlord for relief. As demand for lease space softens, national chains as well as independents are obtaining rent reductions of 10%, 20% and even more. Use this template to notify your landlord, make your case and set the tone for a successful outcome. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Catering Agreement Template
It's important to communicate your catering bids and proposals in a professional, clear and organized manner. The Catering Proposal template includes a cover letter, proposal form and a quick catering/event agreement which are referred to as your restaurant's "Catering Policies." . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Kitchen Ticket Time Analysis Form
Consistent service time is one of the cornerstones of great customer service. Use this form to evaluate your restaurant's average order preparation time and to identify causes and solutions for excessive service times. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Waiter & Waitress Training Manual Template
Thorough, complete and easy-to-understand employee training manuals are a must for any restaurant wanting to create superior dining experiences for every guest. Download our complete Waiter/Waitress Training Manual Template for a headstart on creating your own. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Restaurant Startup Checklist
Starting a restaurant means dealing with a myriad of details and activities. Missing a critical step or activity can mean delays, cost overruns or worse. Use this 300+ point checklist from 12 months out to opening day to better plan and manage the process. . . . more >>
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DOWNLOAD: Restaurant Application for Employment
Having a complete and legally sound employment application is the first step to a quality hiring process. This template will give you a head start on developing your own application. It includes authorizations for additional employment screen steps such as drug testing, background checks and other procedures that may now or at some time be part of your screening and evaluation process. . . . more >>
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