Tips to Reopening of the restaurant business after the pandemic

Today COVID 19 pandemic situation is relaxing in some countries as some days before, the lockdown is enforced in some countries with some restrictions, restaurants now shifted towards online food ordering and delivery to generate some sales.

In many countries, restaurants are allowing customers to have a dine with social distance and slowly trying to increase the sale.

Some tips to increase the sale of the restaurant after COVID-19 pandemic

Consider Takeout and Delivery System

Due to COVID -19 whole world is practicing the social distance with no contact delivery. This new practice helps in maintaining the social distance within the customers who want to satisfy the appetite.

After reopening the restaurant, people will start to adapt to the new situation but maintain social distance after the post-pandemic period so consider the takeaway and delivery after fully re-opening the restaurant as it will take some time for people to change and adapt to the new environment again.

QR based Digital Food Menu

Nowadays people are used to contactless practice, due to contactless interaction in pandemic situations people don’t prefer to use hands to seek your paper food menu which comes in many hands during the whole day of the business.

It is not advisable to use print menus or paper-based menus to distribute in the pandemic period.

Digital Food Menu is based on QR with a new innovative idea of displaying of food menu to your customers.

Customers can order food from the food menu on their mobile phone without installing the app.

You can display your food items or place an order through the digital food menu. The digital food menu is a popular way to feed those hungry customers without a touch of any human mankind.

Gift Cards

Promoting gift cards is an old method but still, it is a good source of revenue for the restaurant owners to get more sales without spending much.

So, don’t stop selling and promoting gift cards as they are a good source of profit in all ways.

Resell to other vendors

Many restaurants are doing some serious sales on various products it is a good idea to develop a network with them. If they can take back from you some of the everlasting products and resell to other vendors to get some extra money.

Stay Connected with Your Customers

Communicating with your customer at the difficult pandemic period is also helps the restaurants retain their valuable customers.

When your restaurant business will start to re-open again after everything returns to normal. If you are not communicating with your customers then they may have in mind that you have temporarily shut down your business.

Social media is the best way to connect with your customers. Email is the best way to share your valuable content to your subscribers so that they can feel your presence.

For restaurants, social media is a great tool for communicating the message about social distancing procedures also for their health and safety.

Update your customers daily about the ordering options or change of menus.

Take Step By Step Approach

Your customer will take some time to come back to normal after the pandemic.

People visiting your restaurant for the dining will be in a worry to have food amidst a crowd. As a restaurant owner, it is our prime responsibility to give your guests a safe and comfortable feeling when they arrive in your place.

Be more creative and come up with a new idea

Creativity has no ends especially during this crisis so that you can come up with new ideas that can give a new direction to your business.

As the business is getting slow down day by day there is a lack of orders, you may find new ways to better manage food costs, change your menu.

You can utilize your restaurant customer's data to see what are the best-selling dishes that can be priced up than they are worth. You can remove some dish which is not selling from the food menu.

Restaurants owners can look into their balance sheet and get a clear view of where their money is worth investing and can make better decisions for their business currently as well as in the future.

Encourage Online Ordering from Table

Usually, when the customer comes to your restaurant and sits on the table first thing is that the waiter handed over the menu to the customer.

Considering the current situation this process is not right as contactless ordering is on-trend. For a safe customer experience at your restaurant, it’s better to give them the option of ordering their food from an online menu from their smartphone.

As online ordering helps customers by avoid touching the menu and can place orders whenever they want.

Digital Payments

Implement a cashless system at your restaurant so that people who come to eat can pay you with digital payment modes without any physical contact.

Various online modes of payment are there that can be used and are necessary to have during and after the crisis period.

Safety and health of employees

If you are re-opening your restaurant, it is very important to manage the safety and health of your restaurant employees.

You should educate your restaurant staff about the importance of taking safety precautions and maintaining hygienic conditions and sanitization their hands at regular intervals.

Strict instructions to be given to employees to wash their hands frequently and maintain social distancing with each other as well as customers. Make the point very clear to wear masks and gloves all time.

Monitor the Employees’ Health

You must also have a system to monitor the health of your employees and should update your health and sick policy to make sure that every staff is monitored.

If you find your staff sick or have symptoms of disease immediately relieve the duty and ask the employee to visit the hospital.