Gary Usher, founder of Elite Bistros, has raised £105,136, exceeding his £100K target to continue work on the Manchester site; Kala. The chef and restaurateur managed to race past his…
How To Encourage Greater Spending
Putting a menu together can be tricky, but making a menu that actually encourages people to buy can be a lot trickier. It’s easy to fall into the traps of…
2ndKitchen Raises £1.05M For Virtual Kitchens
2ndKitchen is looking to fix the age old problem of being hungry in a bar that doesn’t serve food. What do you do in that situation? You either starve or…
Five Questions To Ask Yourself Before Expanding
Once you’ve got your first restaurant off the ground and it’s been a few years you might be looking for some new opportunities or new challenges. Armed with the knowledge…
7 RESTAURANT IDEAS TO GET PEOPLE TALKING
Providing entertainment at your restaurant is vital in standing out from the crowd, attract new customers, encourage repeat business as well as helping your restaurant build a lasting reputation in…
Getting To Know Your Customers
Picture if you will a cold January day, you walk up to your favourite restaurant, warmly lit from the outside, as you open the door the scent of those delicious…
Just Eat CEO Steps Down
Peter Plumb has announced he is stepping down as director and chief executive of food delivery company Just Eat immediately,while Peter Duffy, chief customer officer, has been appointed as interim…
Survey Part II: The online booking experience
Hello! Recently we commissioned a survey all about the how, when and why of restaurant bookings. We’ve already talked about some of the really interesting results in our last blog…
Survey Part 1: Why you can’t afford to ignore online bookings
Well we would say that, right? But how do we know that? Well, one of the reasons we started Booking Ninja was because we run our own busy board game…