Blog posts tagged with 'restaurants'

Restaurant rewards programs are extremely effective and hold importance in the opinion of customer’s. Estimates state that an appealing rewards program would increase a consumer’s restaurant visit rate by an average of 35% (Loyalogy) while 73% of consumers would recommend a restaurant with an appealing rewards program over others that do not (Loyalogy). Customer loyalty is an important metric restaurants need to track. In fact, just a 5% increase in customer loyalty would increase the average profit per customer by 25% – 100% (CityGro). That’s an astronomical number considering it is a well-known fact it costs way more money to attract new customers instead of retaining existing customers. I found this infographic that has a number of great tips on how to turn casual customers into your raving, fanatical evangelical following. Check it out below:

 

From Visually.

The 2016 Restaurants Canada show is fast approaching. We're excited to be in booth# 2113 exhibiting our wholesale restaurant tabletop supplies, catering serveware and event furniture.

We’re breaking the mold on traditional restaurant supply stores by not only selling tabletop items that don’t eat into profits (i.e. more money in the bank for you) but also by:

• having no minimums
• all porcelain, flatware, serveware and glassware in stock
• same/next day shipping to ensure you get the tabletop supplies you need fast
• We also have all our products and pricing online and available for ordering 24/7/365 so there’s no need to leave your restaurant or catering company

New at the show this year, we will be exhibiting:

• Rustic and Dark Fruitwood Stacking Crossback Chairs
• Stemware washing racks
• Catering Glass Boxes
• Banquet Chairs
• Cruiser Table Cart
• Spun Polyester Table Cloths and Napkins
• Spandex Folding Chair Covers
• Melamine Rectangle Serving Bowl

We look forward to seeing you at the Enercare Centre in Toronto on February 28, February 29th and March 1st!

This is our first foray into testing and videotaping our tabletop supplies. Common knowledge is that melamine platters are a stronger, more durable material then porcelain platters but what does that mean in terms of a drop test? We thought we’d give it a try so you can see for yourselves. We tested two products: our M1125 2.6” Melamine Ramekin and our M1904 14.5” melamine square platter by dropping them on our concrete warehouse floor. Check out the results in the videos below:

14.5" Melamine Square Platter

You can see what the product looks like after the drop test in picture form here.

2.6" Melamine Ramekin

You can see what the product looks like after the drop test in picture form here

Melamine serving bowls are a fantastic way for a banquet hall, or caterer to provide larger volume buffets with serveware that looks like porcelain but provides added durability without substantial weight. We’ve had great success with our melamine serving pieces throughout the party rental, banquet hall and catering categories – partially in part of the way our melamine looks. We try our best to choose melamine pieces that look almost identical to porcelain – so much so that we put our melamine pieces on a prominent front table at our tradeshow booths with a sign “touch me”. Visitors are often incredulous because they think upon first glance that what they’re about to touch is porcelain platters. So naturally we want to continue to expand our melamine serving piece line. We just received a new shipment in to ensure we have enough stock and brought in another new melamine rectangle bowl.

Introducing our new Melamine Rectangle Bowl!

This 9 7/8” x 13 ¾” Rectangle Melamine Bowl is perfect for salads, pasta entrees and so much more. It has a volume of 4.5L / 152oz, can be refrigerated between a range of 2°C – 93°C (35.6°F - 200°F), and is dishwasher safe.

Caterers, banquet halls and restaurants are notorious for prepping food ahead of time – for a large scale event that requires a lot of preparation a couple days ahead of time or preparation for a lunch or dinner rush. Regardless of the event size, melamine bowls and platters are often used to aid in preparation for prepping buffets, hors d’oeuvres and salads and understanding their temperature ranges helps ensure the material lasts as long as possible.

Melamine is a synthetic resin that is used to form durable, break-resistant dinnerware, serving platters, and serving bowls. Melamine serveware can look almost identical to porcelain or be dyed to look like wood, marble, slate or stone.

Melamine platters or bowls would work equally well as melamine works well in a temperature range of 2°C – 93°C (35.6°F - 200°F). Anywhere below zero degrees melamine platters and bowls will get quite brittle and breakage will more easily occur. If your commercial refrigerator operates within that temperature range, you’re completely safe to use melamine platters and bowls in your prep work.