How to survive in the Pandemic? Restaurant Edition

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Don’t let the global pandemic crisis affect the way you see your business growing. Our industry is far too resilient for that. But of course, it doesn’t mean it will not change.

Many restaurants are facing unprecedented challenges. However, there are many hacks as to how you can go through these hard times.

1.Meal Kits

Takeouts is mandatory right now, especially during this global pandemic. However, many of those establishments have made a conscious decision to do takeouts / deliveries as they feel the food won’t travel well.

To avoid that, restaurants can create the kit by doing all the prep work and measuring out ingredients and also providing a set of instructions for assembling and preparing the meal.

2.A 5-course drive through meal experience

1 Canadian restaurant came up with a ideal to serve a fancy 5 course meal all while remaining appropriately socially distant: Drive-through

While this idea might not be something that your restaurant could do, the concept of thinking creatively resonates with a lot of businesses.

3.Online Cooking Classes

Chefs are often a big draw for your restaurant. And having them sidelined during the pandemic means that one of your best resources is sitting idle. But it doesn’t have to be that way. With everyone’s favorite tool to use now, Zoom, you can plan online cooking classes weekly by simply needing to get your customers to sign up for lessons at a specific time.

If you are able to, you can actually sell your customers / students the ingredients they will need to prepare for the online cooking classes. And it doesn’t have to stop there, you can also switch things up weekly. Someday you may do dessert classes and other days you can also go for mixology.

4.Ghost Kitchen

It’s the latest trend right now, even before the pandemic.

When you think about the concept in relation to our current pandemic issue, this could be one of those restaurant hacks that might just save you a dollar or two in your pocket.

The concept is simple: What if you were to use your facility as strictly a food preparation operation? If you have a strong delivery business, that could be enough to sustain you and you could also rent out your facilities for other businesses to use.

So don’t worry, restaurants are not going away. Nevertheless, that doesn’t mean that they aren’t in a critical state right now. And by turning to creative ways to turn a profit, you might just be able to thrive for the future.