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From off-premise dining to menu engineering to social media promotions, learn how to increase restaurant sales with these creative strategies.

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8 Proven Ideas to Increase Restaurant Sales

Learn how this restaurant chain in the suburban Washington, D.C. area built a thriving delivery business with DoorDash. 

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How Santini's Grew a Profitable Delivery Business with DoorDash

These are the best strategies to optimize your food cost percentage formula and improve your restaurant profitability.

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How to Calculate Your Food Cost Percentage

Wondering what your liquor cost percentage is? Learn how to calculate and optimize this key business metric for bars and restaurants.

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7 Ways to Lower Your Liquor Cost Percentage

Learn how to understand a restaurant P&L statement, then download a free profit and loss example template.

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Everything You Need to Know About a Profit and Loss Statement

This San Francisco restaurant revamped their menu and operations to become more approachable — while still maintaining profits.

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How Che Fico Alimentari Lowered Their Menu Prices

Learn how to analyze a restaurant P&L to understand profitability for third-party delivery sales. 


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How The Smoke Shop BBQ Uses Restaurant P&L Statements to Gain an Edge

Learn how this Toronto-based healthy Tex-Mex franchise location built a loyal customer base through DoorDash.

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How DoorDash Helped This BarBurrito Franchise Increase Sales by 84%

Learn how Spread Bagelry’s omni-channel customer experience drives new business at a higher margin.

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How Spread Bagelry Wins Incremental Sales with DoorDash

From fast food to fine dining, learn about the different profit margin averages for various kinds of restaurants.

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Profit Margins for Different Types of Restaurants

Learn about average profit margin for grocery stores, pet stores, liquor stores, flower shops, and more.

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Comparing Average Profit Margin by Industry

Get a breakdown of common restaurant expenses, as well as strategies to reduce restaurant costs and increase profit margins.

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How to Reduce Restaurant Costs and Improve Profits

When devising your restaurant’s menu pricing strategy, there are many important factors to consider. Read our blog for tips, formulas, and more.

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Restaurant Menu Pricing: How to Price for Profit

Learn how to measure and improve your restaurant profit margins with these helpful tips.


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How to Improve Your Restaurant Profit Margin

In order to serve their business partners better, DoorDash launched Partnership Plans that offer cost, pricing, and product options.

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New DoorDash Partnership Plans Give Merchants More Options

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What is White-Label Delivery? Benefits, Solutions, and More

Learn the benefits of offering food discounts, as well as tips and creative ideas to help you determine the right promotions for your business. 


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12 Ways to Structure Restaurant Discounts and Promotions

Learn how to calculate overhead costs and increase profitability across your business. 

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How to Calculate Overhead & Increase Your Profitability

Are you tracking these restaurant numbers? Here are the important restaurant metrics you need to know to maintain and grow your business.  

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13 Key Restaurant Numbers and Metrics that Impact Profits

Looking for a new way to generate revenue now? Launching a restaurant retail product line is a great way to do it  — and it’s possible at any scale.

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How to Launch a Retail Product Line for Your Restaurant

Learn how to create new restaurant revenue streams for your restaurant or business, opening up new avenues for customers to order and growing profits. 