Key Areas to Inflation - The Menu

KEY AREAS TO MANAGE INFLATION

THE MENU

We’ve all heard the old adage: the menu is the only marketing piece a restaurant produces that 100% of its guests see. Whether delivering this menu in a hard copy or a digital format, this idea reigns supreme. A restaurant’s menu is an amalgamation: part expression of the brand, part summary of passions, and entirely linked to a restaurant’s profitability.

There are proven and necessary steps to ensure a profitable menu, such as: knowing the costs, knowing the costs for each plate, understanding how portion size, waste, and theft can potentially impact profits, and creating a menu design intentionally featuring the most profitable items on the menu. Leveraging the power of images and gaze patterns, guests are subtly directed to these items.

Understanding that menu design drives a restaurant’s revenue is the single biggest takeaway needed to make a menu more profitable. The next steps are leveraging the knowledge to improve digital presence and respond creatively to the challenges of inflation.