Reducing property taxes is an important financial step for a restaurant owner. There are different things that can reduce your tax bill including making sure your property assessment is fair. You can also appeal your property taxes to try to have them lowered. In order to do this, you will need help from an attorney. You will also need to collect data on the local market. The data supporting your appeal could be wide ranging.

Key Takeaways:

  • Make sure you have an up to date assessment of the property.
  • You can appeal a decision from the property assessors office.
  • When appealing a decision, try and provide as much evidence as possible to support your request to have the assessment lowered.

“Property taxes can be one of the biggest line item costs for restaurant owners, but they don’t have to be. There are strategies they can use and information they can gather to help manage, and even lower, the amount operators pay in property taxes.”

Read more: https://www.qsrmagazine.com/outside-insights/4-tips-keep-property-taxes-hurting-your-bottom-line

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November is the month of food marketing, according to Restaurant News. Each and every day of the month has some food related holiday or celebration attached to it. Some days have as many as four different things to celebrate. Not every restaurant or food service will be able to celebrate them all, but there is at least one for everyone out there. If you’re a sweet shop, celebrate National Sundae Day on the 11th. If you’re a Mexican restaurant, go all out for National Nacho Day on the 6th. Find your food holiday and go wild.

Read more: Restaurant Marketing Ideas for November

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In today’s world of fast food, consumers are increasingly turning their sights to baked goods as desserts for their meals. This has been a pleasant surprise to those in the dessert industry, as it means more money in their pockets. Some companies are developing bold flavor combinations that include items you may not typically think go together, such as croissants with apricots. The one thing that is for sure is that restaurants and fast food owners will continue to spice up their menu as they follow the ever changing trends of consumers.

Read more: Savory Baked Goods Heat Up Restaurant Sales

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In Queens, there is a special event called Restaurant Week where several restaurants in the area lower their prices, usually to a fixed number. It usually attracts many more people, especially people that are unpleasant to be around. A group of women walk into a restaurant the author is in during this event and begins a blog post about 22 ways that they annoyed the author. Some of these include reserving a large table and not sitting at it, being very indecisive, and being loud and obnoxious.

Key Takeaways:

  • A large party meeting dinner, arrive staggered fashion, changing number of people ready for drinks food
  • Diners require special attention, have the waiter running back forth make quite a few demands.
  • Steak ordered medium sent back under cooked rain back inside move tables ends with 22% tip

“It’s Restaurant Week in my Queens neighborhood and I just had my ass handed to me on a tray. Unsurprisingly, the tray hadn’t been wiped down in two weeks and it’s sticky on both sides. For those of you not in the know, Restaurant Week is when a group of restaurants offer special deals to entice customers to come out to eat.”

Read more: http://thebitchywaiter.com/2017/10/the-22-ways-table-28-annoyed-me-during-restaurant-week.html

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