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10 October 2017 at 13 : 11 PM
Προνοώντας για την Διαδοχή: Προετοιμάζοντας την Επόμενη Γενιά
■ Tου ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΊΝΟΥ Ν. ΚΟΛΙΤΣΑ ΩΣΤΕ δουλέψατε σκληρά για δεκαετίες και τα παιδιά σας ενηλικιώνονται και δείχνουν ενδιαφέρον για την οικογενειακή επιχείρηση. Σκεφτόσασταν αυτήν την μέρα για ...
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11 September 2017 at 09 : 28 AM
Cleanliness is Next to Godliness
■ By CONSTANTINE N. KOLITSAS, Consultant HOW important is a clean establishment to your efforts to grow or, at the least, retain business? Food is important – you have to have a menu that has food that people want, and the food has to taste good. Speed of Service is important – people have limited time and food is not always a leisurely ...
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3 August 2017 at 15 : 57 PM
Don’t Let Fast Casual Eat Your Lunch
■ By CONSTANTINE N. KOLITSAS, Consultant WHETHER you’re the manager of a diner, luncheonette, casual-dining or tablecloth restaurant, you have competition that’s eating your lunch, literally and figuratively. The rise of fast casual restaurants—fast food restaurants serving up higher-quality fare—has taken a bite off of everyone’s ...
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15 July 2017 at 18 : 09 PM
From Menu to Table
■ By CONSTANTINE N. KOLITSAS, Consultant Re-engineering and implementing menu changes is serious business. It’s not just a matter of seeing something on another restaurant’s menu and adding it to your own. That’s the easy way – and the way to eventually kill your food cost, confuse your customers, and get lost in the wider ...
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14 June 2017 at 17 : 23 PM
Curing Organizational Cancer
Just as a cancer in a human destroys its host from within, so too does a cancer in an organization. The difference is that a cancer in an organization is more readily cured. Every organization has them – negative employees that infect others around them. And that negativity can eventually destroy an organization completely. Restaurants have them ...
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11 May 2017 at 00 : 28 AM
Manage Your Perception
It may be cliché, but it’s true nonetheless: Perception is reality. You may be the most earnest, selfless, trustworthy, hardworking, well-intentioned person on the planet, but if you give the impression of being in it for yourself, then that becomes your truth. Like it or not. After all, no one has a window into your thoughts, so it’s your outward ...
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13 April 2017 at 19 : 28 PM
Change, and Cheese
No one likes change. We’re creatures of habit, and, given our druthers, we will always elect to keep things as they are. After all, it’s much easier to do what you know and what you’ve been doing for years or even decades. Yet change is one thing in life that is constant. And to sit back and let life pass you by without changing or adapting to ...
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27 March 2017 at 23 : 40 PM
Cheers to Higher Liquor Sales and Profits
GENERATING significant profits from the sale of alcoholic beverages is one of the keys to running a successful business – there’s no secret there. However, the devil is in the details… What are the best ways to increase beverage sales, and how does the power of Information help in generating those sales? To begin with, it’s critical that we ...
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6 February 2017 at 21 : 52 PM
It Begins With You
■ By Constantine N. Kolitsas, Consultant A common frustration among restaurant managers – and restaurant goers for that matter! – is the lack of self-discipline among Front-of-the-House staff in many restaurants. Servers on their cell phones; staff gathering around the host stand or server station talking and fraternizing; sloppy uniforms; ...
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20 July 2016 at 21 : 01 PM
ΑΔΙΑΚΡΙΤΩΣ – Ιούλιος 2016
Μια καινούργια αρχή… Επί τέλους η πρώτη αξιολόγηση είναι γεγονός. Ελλάδα και Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση κατόρθωσαν να συμφωνήσουν και να υπογράψουν μια συμφωνία που να διασφαλίζει το Ευρωπαϊκό μέλλον της ...
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