Top 5 New Year’s Resolutions For 2010 Of Restaurant Owners

2009 has come and gone. Some restaurant operators are still reeling from its effects, but most are already looking forward to a hopeful new year. It’s human nature to look on the good side. restaurant owners should be the same.

But change doesn’t take place without action. If you want a brighter year for your restaurant business, if you want to get away from the global recession for a change, then you need to look at yourself as a restaurant owner and, as the King of Pop puts it, “make that change“.

Here are 5 New Year’s resolutions guaranteed to make a positive change for your restaurant this 2010.

• Resolve to hire competent consultants
Make it your new year’s resolution not to hire consultants offering to boost your restaurant sales overnight. Basically a quick fix. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and so is your restaurant. The mark of a true consultant is someone who details a realistic plan on how you’re going to go about attacking the market, one step at a time.

• Resolve to make smart marketing decisions
Make it your new year’s resolution not to overwhelm your budget by offering big discounts in exchange for long-term financial stability. There are far more effective ways to bait customers than to slash the prices on your menu all the time.

• Resolve to conduct feasibility studies
Make it your new year’s resolution to study the market. Learn more about your customers, recognize their eating habits, what they like, and what they don’t like about your restaurant, etc. You’ll see this pays off in the long run.

• Resolve to turn customers into friends
Make it your new year’s resolution to talk to your customers and make them your newest friends. You won’t only be getting their money, you’ll be also be receiving their loyalty.

• Resolve to work harder for your restaurant business
Make it your new year’s resolution to not think that we’re all going to be better off this 2010. Work, and work harder like it’s 2009. Who knows if we’re going to get hit again by the recession this year?

What are your New Year’s resolutions this 2010?