What does a post-Covid-19 restaurant look like?
Restaurants around the United States are slowly re-opening after months of no dine in eating, but many are not sure how they can continue to be profitable running at 50% capacity, or as take-out only due to continuing social distancing requirements. How do you keep employees and customers safe AND pivot your business model to something more profitable? Here are a few ideas for how your restaurant can respond to Covid-19 and social distancing requirements.
1. Offering Contactless Menus
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| Menus4All Creates Contactless ADA Compliant Online Menus |
Menus4All is a company that has been providing ADA compliant restaurant menus for customers with visual impairments and restaurants who want to give their customers an accessible and contactless online menu. They can quickly add your restaurant's menu to their network of over 50,000 increasing your business's visibility and providing your customers with an easy to use, contactless menu. The picture below show's a table placard with a QR code that takes your customer's smart phone directly to your online menu. An added bonus is that all of your potential customers with visual impairments can now easily access your restaurants' menu using their phone's accessibility functions.
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| Customers can scan the QR code on their table for your germ free menu |
2. More Frequent Cleaning and Sanitizing
Food safety has always been important and restaurants are equipped to deal with it, but now we have to be concerned not only for the safety of the food being served but also the health and safety of our employees and customers. If you've already pivoted to contactless menus, the surfaces you should most be concerned with cleaning and sanitizing are things like doors, tables and chairs. By preparing a light chlorine solution of 5 tablespoons to each gallon of water each day and transferring it to a labeled spray bottle your staff can easily spray it on contact surfaces and let it air dry to kill Covid-19.
Always label cleaning and sanitizing products when transferring to a new bottle
3. Operating at 50% Capacity
Some states are requiring that restaurants operate at 50% or even 25% of capacity to allow enough space for social distancing. One creative way some restaurants are dealing with this is by working with local environmental health officials to safely increase their outdoor dining space and thus, creating more social distanced seats for customers like this Clearwater, FL restaurant. Of course, you have to have access to outdoor space for this to work, so for restaurants who are already cramped expanding your online menu with new takeout and delivery options can allow you to expand your market without spilling out onto the street.
Many restaurants must maintain 6 ft distance between tables when reopening.
4. Hiring a Restaurant Consultant
Now, more than ever, consulting with an industry professional about your restaurants options, including accessing capital like the Paycheck Protection Program, is a smart investment in your restaurants future. Can I afford a restaurant consultant? This is a common question from our clients who think that consulting services are reserved for giant corporations or wealthy restaurateurs, when in fact, many consultants offer free consultations that can quickly give you some ideas for what your options are for keeping your restaurant open during this pandemic.
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| Restaurant consultants can quickly offer solutions to social distancing requirements. |
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