Friday, February 15, 2008

Innovative and Unique Solutions for Restaurants

Receiving payments is sometimes very cumbersome task for Restaurants, especially during weekends, festivals or wedding occasions. The customers footfalls increase dramatically on such situations. That results long queues of waiting for payment, which is frustrating for customers as well owners. Such problems are common with fast food joints, self service restaurants, or take home service providers.

There is always a strong need for an alternate payment method, because traditional card swipe process is time taking. The Next Idea Restaurant Consultants has been a pioneer in providing restaurant consultancy services. They understood the problems with traditional payments processes, and come up with an innovative, less time taking, and easy solution.

Tap N Go - Answer to Payment Receiving Problems

Contact less (”Tap N Go”) credit card payments is the latest technology in accepting credit card payments - the technology speeds up customer transactions, therefore reduces lines, wait times, and transaction problems. That results a pleasant dining experience for customers and pleasant customer service experience for restaurant owners. Over the next five years “Tap N Go” will replace swipe processing in high volume outlets that need to provide convenience and quick service. Therefore now is the best time to install, ahead of your competitors, and offer your customers a new hassle-free payments experience. The facility will add another milestone in your service areas, making you ahead of your competitors.

Contact less “Tap N Go” services is changing the way customers pay for small purchases. Consumers love the convenience of just tapping their cards to pay at merchants counters. Installation is very easy, and the technology is compatible with almost all POS equipment. The Next Idea (www.thenextidea.net) is the primary distributor of this new technology, as part of our launch this week, we are offering a variety of incentives for new clients.

The Next Idea provides international restaurant consulting and offers advice and consulting in all aspects of restaurant operations, development and management. For more details regarding our Tap-N-Go services call us at 818-992-6133 or 818-448-9888, you can also contact us via a mail to info@thenextidea.net. Visit us at : http://www.thenextidea.net.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Mediterranean diet

What is the next phase in healthy eating?

According to Robert Ancill, President of The Next Idea, Los Angeles based Restaurant Consultancy consumers are taking increasing interest in Mediterranean cuisine.

In 2007, The Journal of the American Medical Association reported, a combination of the Mediterranean diet, moderate exercise and drinking, and no smoking can

lower mortality rates by 65 percent.

What is the Mediterranean diet? It’s heavy on the olive oil and light on meat and dairy. It also includes lots of fish, vegetables, seeds, grains, nuts and legumes.

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The first study was conducted over 12 years (1988–2000) by researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and other European universities. Twenty-three hundred healthy people between the ages of 70 and 90 were surveyed about their eating habits and physical activities.

Another study conducted at the Second University of Naples found that people who suffered from “metabolic syndrome” improved after following a

Mediterranean diet. Metabolic syndrome increases the risk of heart disease and diabetes. Symptoms include being fat around the middle, having high cholesterol and high blood pressure, and improper processing of glucose. After two years, only 44 percent of those on the Mediterranean diet still suffered symptoms.

Ancill reports that The Next Idea has experienced a larger than normal interest in Mediterranean concepts both from entrepreneurs and restaurant investors. In a recent interview Robert Ancill commented; “Possibly we will eventually see a Healthier consumer if such a trend gains traction in the market place, the question is whether operators will understand the unique economics of executing a Mediterranean menu”.

For More Information : www.thenextidea.net

Monday, February 11, 2008

Importance of Interiors in Restaurant Business

If you are opening a new restaurant, owning an existing restaurant, or just came up with a restaurant business plan. You should give stress on looks of your restaurant business setup. Exterior and interiors both are important aspects, but your customers will spend more of their time inside your restaurant, so interior designing consideration is more important.
Look and feel is a pleasing factor, in hospitality it is one of the most important factor. It can have positive effects on your restaurant business and provides proper returns of money invested in interior designing. Excellently designed interior of your restaurants provides a soothing and comfortable dining experience to your customers.

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It is true that walls, furniture, utensils, textures and colours, employee dresses, paintings, lightings, and carpets, everything is representing your restaurant. Together they make the visual impact of your restaurant. Its not yet over, very soon your design will become your brand identity. We can easily notice a single theme accepted by all key players of Restaurantand Café Industry . Take example of McDonalds, or Café Coffee Day, you will find a common there in every outlets of these restaurant chains. This common theme is in fact a part of their brand identity promotion.

This visual impact is the first appearance of your service offerings to your customer. Your interior designing theme will decide your customer’s mood, that mood will decide their selection of cuisine presented in your menu. It is not easy to decide about interiors of your restaurant. You need to take help of experts in this field to maximize the benefits of your investment.

There are several Restaurant and Café consultants providing interior designing services. Even there are several interior designers expert in hospitality interior designing services. They know how to create an effect through interiors using different arrangements, perfect placements of furniture, attractive lighting painting, and perfect blend of colours and textures.

The Next Idea is a pioneer is providing interior designing services to its numerous clients in hospitality industry. Next Idea experts have several years of experience of developing restaurants and creating perfect ambience for future customers of its restaurants and café business clients.

For more information of The Next Idea services and offerings, please visit: http://www.thenextidea.net.

Friday, February 8, 2008

Services Provided by Restaurant Consultants

Restaurant Consultants are helping people interested to start their own restaurants, or re innovating old restaurants. For a long time, it was very difficult for newcomers in this filed setting up a new restaurant, to select a suitable place, to design interiors in most effective and eye catching manner, to select cuisines, menu, and other little things, which may affect the overall business. The marketing and advertisement was a tougher task which must have been a nightmare for prospective restaurant owners.

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Earlier, in absence of perfect blend of everything, one can’t expect good business. Running a restaurant takes high level of energy, capital, and manpower. At the end, due to insufficient business most of the restaurant owners either sell their restaurant or lease to popular chains.

But current scenario is different, now there are several Restaurant and Café Consultants in market. They are experienced player of this field, having team of people with diverse set of experience in travel and tourism, dining and leisure industry. If you contact a Restaurant Consultant for his services, you don’t need to do any market survey, consult an interior designer, or a marketing and advertising agency.

Restaurant Consultants provides one stop services of every task related to a Restaurant. They help in developing a Restaurant Business Plan, selection of the best possible venue for restaurant, interior and exterior design to attract people and to make his visit pleasant, cuisines selection, menu design, employee training or marketing and advertising. If taken individually these things seem less important, but together they make great impact over business. A well designed menu or a well trained staff can increase number of placed order by a customer. If it happens a few times a day, it can affect your whole business transactions on a monthly basis.

In other words if you start your Restaurant Setup, with help of a Restaurant and Café Consultant, you add the amount of experience carried by the team, which in turn transforms the prospects of your business. You’ll see your Restaurant Business providing you the taste of success, satisfaction and wealth at same point of time.

The Next Idea is a highly innovative and experienced team of restaurant and leisure consultants, who have successfully opened and managed more than 250 restaurants, bars, and hotels worldwide. For more information or queries, feel free to visit our website: http://www.thenextidea.net.