Healthy Choices Happy Customers

All of us in the restaurant business forget all to often that we need to provide our customers with healthy menu selections. The obvious choices are salads with low fat dressings or broiled fish options such as tilapia or triggerfish (the new tilapia) . Whole wheat pasta is always a good bet as there are many people that are carb sensitive or are simply watching their carb intake.

Dont let the food police get over on you

With the recent trends toward healtier foods in restaurants, particlarly the trans fat ban in New York the food police are definately on the prowl. Our customers more and more are looking to us to provide them with healtier choices on our menus. I tend to believe that we ought to give the customers what it is they want but at the same time be on the lookout for those bureaucrats that want to make our jobs that much harder.

Dry cleaning scam

Attention all restaurant owners. BEWARE the dry cleaning scam. you may get a letter that indicates one of your waitstaff inadvertantly spilled on one of your customers included with a phony bill. This is more than likely a bogus attempt to get you to part with 40 or 50 dollars. Be sure to verify all inquiries of this type.