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If you own a restaurant in Hertfordshire, make sure you know these must-haves about the restaurant menus:
The menu should be original: Make a menu that can stand aside from the rest and offers a balance of unique dishes. Consider including dishes that can match well with the theme of your restaurant. Give an unexpected touch of a distinct taste to the cuisine to make your customer feel his visit worthwhile.
Should be versatile: No item in your restaurant menu should stand alone and should be present in few other dishes as well. It is because you can make effective use of the large amount of any ingredient. In case you are using a particular ingredient in only a single dish then there is a possibility at the end of day that the ingredient might get wasted. Therefore, plan your restaurant menu accordingly.
Should have the correct food cost: In order to keep up the high profits and affordable cost for the customers, each item should be priced to determine the cost of the food. List out the actual amount that was incurred while making the entire dish. Pricey ingredients are equal to pricey menu. Cost is the second most factors that are considered by the customers who have visited your restaurant. The quality matters the first. If the food served at your restaurant is of good quality, your customer will not even hesitate to pay you more.
The menu items should be easy to prepare: Make sure that you list out those cuisines in your restaurant menu that involves an easy technique to prepare i.e. it does not take a long time. Menu items should possess two things: easy to prepare on the spot (saut or grill) or easy to prepare ahead of time (lasagna, cooked pasta etc.)
The menu should have an easy to read format: Ensure that the font size and style used in your menu card design is easier for everyone to read. Make your restaurant menu look simple and attractive by avoiding the usage of too much culinary jargon. Keep up the normal text size and easy to read fonts so it becomes comfortable for all your customers to read the menu thoroughly.
It should be of a manageable size: Dont make the menu card too large or two small. Avoid the temptation to offer huge selection of items; otherwise youll inevitably confuse your customers to randomly pick up the cuisine of their choice. Make your menu limited and confined to a few cuisines so that your customers can easily choose out of the available choices.
You should keep on updating the restaurants menu: While updating your menu consider what your restaurant is capable of producing. Add some grilled and sauted dishes along with some unique salad ideas, soups, baked food etc.
Avoid a few things on your menu: There are a few things that are to be avoided from a restaurant menu, for instance, hard to read font or overly descriptive language. Remember, your menu card is your brand ambassador and you have to put your best foot forward. The menu card can either make or break the interest of the customers putting their step forward to your restaurant.
Always proof-read your menu: Once youre done with the preparation of your menu, consider proofreading it so as to ensure that the prices are quoted correctly and the names of the cuisines are written in such a way that it is easily understandable by the customers.
