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Guides for restaurant owners

Practical articles on online ordering, delivery, rules and running service, written by the DineHarbor team.

102 articles

Do You Need a Kitchen Display System?

Learn how a restaurant kitchen display routes tickets, manages stations, holds and recall, when printers still make sense and how to set up a safe pilot.

DineHarbor teamSep 12, 20267 min read

Opening a restaurant

How to Start a Food Truck

Start a food truck with a plan: choose the vehicle, register the business, find legal pitches, handle gas and power safely and take payments.

DineHarbor teamSep 6, 20266 min read

Running a restaurant

How QR table ordering works

How guests order from their own phone at the table, what the kitchen sees, and what to set up before you put the first QR code on a table.

DineHarbor teamSep 4, 20262 min read

Technology and AI

Serve Tables With a Waiter App

Use a waiter app to open tables, record seats, split bills, hold courses and send clear orders to the kitchen while keeping hospitality calm and personal.

DineHarbor teamAug 29, 20266 min read

Team and hiring

How to Hire Restaurant Staff Who Stay

Hire restaurant staff who stay: define the role, write an honest advert, run a paid trial shift, check right to work and plan the first week.

DineHarbor teamAug 23, 20267 min read

Marketing and loyalty

Restaurant Food Photography

How to take good restaurant food photos with a phone: light, angles, styling, a shot list, honest editing, Google photo rules, permissions and uses.

DineHarbor teamAug 22, 20268 min read

Menu and pricing

Drinks Pricing and Bar Costing: Pour Cost

Cost and price drinks properly: pour cost, measures, wine and cocktail costing, wastage, stock counts and the licensing and measure rules to check.

DineHarbor teamAug 19, 20265 min read

Running a restaurant

Switch Restaurant Systems Safely in Seven Steps

Move from an old restaurant POS or ordering system safely by exporting data, testing in parallel, checking the menu, rehearsing service and planning rollback.

DineHarbor teamAug 18, 20266 min read

Opening a restaurant

How to Write a Restaurant Business Plan

Write a restaurant business plan that a bank, partner or landlord will read, with the nine sections, a worked break even example and the numbers they ask for.

DineHarbor teamAug 11, 20267 min read

Money and margins

Restaurant Card Processing Fees Explained

Understand restaurant card processing fees: interchange, scheme and provider charges, pricing models, surcharge rules and how to compare quotes.

DineHarbor teamAug 7, 20265 min read

Guest experience

Collecting Guest Feedback in Restaurants

How to collect honest guest feedback: short surveys, table cards, QR codes, follow ups, what Google allows, privacy basics and turning comments into change.

DineHarbor teamAug 5, 20269 min read

Technology and AI

Turn a Paper Menu Into an Online Menu

Learn how to photograph a paper menu, review an AI menu import, fix prices and options, add allergens and prepare clear translations before publishing.

DineHarbor teamAug 2, 20266 min read