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Culinary Finance 101: Food Costs for Restaurant Owners

Planning Pod

Many restaurant owners today are struggling to avoid rising food costs eating into profits and hindering their overall growth. At Planning Pod, we’ve noticed an uptick in business owners asking for tips on lowering food costs while maximizing profits. Not sure how to calculate your food cost percentage for a specific dish?

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Food Rules to Effectively Navigate Your Meeting Menus

Smart Meetings

Sustainable Foods. Fortunately, with good planning and collaboration with venue staff, you can assemble the right food for the right attendee at the right time without budget overruns. Nine Ways to Meet Attendees Where They Are It shouldn’t surprise you that 25% of the average meeting budget is spent on food and beverage.

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Waste Not, Want Not: Donate Food After Your Event or Party

The Castle Group

However, nothing compares to food waste. Research from the Lime Venue portfolio shows that “the average event wastes between 15% and 20% of the food it produces.” There are multiple ways to reduce food waste when planning an event. Despite better estimating, food waste is still likely. What is food donation?

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How to Prepare a Venue for an Event

GEVME

Knowing how to prepare a venue for an event is one of the key points in event planning. Choosing a venue for an event is also one of the first negotiation points as well. The rest of the preparation process will depend on the decision made about the venue. If you’re lucky, the event market will offer a variety of good venues.

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Planning Pod’s Catering Package Technology Gives Users New Levels of Customization

Planning Pod

When we released our food and beverage tools a couple years ago, those updates were carefully crafted through the process of interviewing real catering industry professionals who roll up their sleeves on the daily to serve people – and our latest launch is no exception. You asked, and we listened!

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What are BEOs and Why do Event Pros need them?

Planning Pod

Planning Pod’s BEO layouts can include any important details already stored within an event, like: Basic info like event name, event venue/location, start time and end time, associated vendor information and headcounts. Food & Beverage packages. Food & Beverage service times, delivery information and locations.

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26 COVID Questions to Ask your Wedding Venue

EventSource

General: What is the venue’s policy on the postponement, and what are the associated fees? You May Also Be Interested In 13 Toronto Venues Offering Micro Wedding Packages How To Choose A Wedding Venue When You Can’t See It In Person Four Ways To Adjust Your Guest List if You Have to Downsize Your Wedding. Happy Planning!

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