Resources

Restaurant Resources

Tools & articles to help you stay on track and succeed in a challenging marketplace.

Industry market reports

7/22/26

Beef, poultry & pork market update

This weekly update will give you information gathered from the meat industries to help you prepare with pricing, availability and overall expectations regarding your meat based products.

7/22/26

Produce market update

Your produce market report will give you market alerts on all produce items, a weather update, a freight update and a commodities at a glance graphic so you can see exactly where the market lies for each individual item.

7/22/26

Seafood market update

This report looks at seafood markets as supplied from our vendor partner Northern Fish.

Third party delivery

Best practices to get the most

(and Lose the Least) From 3rd Party Delivery

For many, 3rd Party Delivery (3PD) represents a significant aspect of their dining flow. Every advantage counts: NEW allowances on menu pricing, controlling waste, and more…

Grow Your Direct Takeout Business

Use the statewide 15% commission cap

on 3rd party delivery to grow your direct takeout business

While scattered reports of certain 3rd Party Delivery (3PD) services NOT honoring WA’s 15% cap on commissions have come to our attention (this article expands on that and more #questionable 3PD practices), this is still a GREAT opportunity to use the service to grow direct takeout diners.

Resources for success

5 “Must haves”

for every restaurant website

New Year’s resolution: update my restaurants website. Before you do, check this out to ensure that your website is up to the expectations of today’s diners.

Family Meal Kit Concepts

Family meal kits

As “Leftover Takeout” continues to trend and support do you have a Meal Program that both satisfies their cravings AND is profitable/productive for you? Not sure? Check out this short read.

Offsite Dining

Adapting to take-out & delivery.

COVID transformed our lifestyles of social distancing, resulting in offsite dining as a common model for restaurants. Whether your restaurant(s) have been on the cutting edge of this dining segment, a relative newbie, or somewhere in between; the following encompass traditional best practices as well as current innovations and/or considerations emerging from COVID-19’s impact on the industry.