Best practices for take away menus

Are you looking at shifting your menu to focus on take-away, delivery and drive thru? Here are some of the best ideas and best practices worth considering:

- Streamline your offerings. 

- Ensure that menu items travel well from your restaurant to your patrons’ homes.

- Create larger portion items suitable to be shared with many people at the destination or provide a couple meals for a single person. 

- Create meals that customers can finish at home with a final oven heat.

- Focus on comfort foods: things like soups and breads from scratch allow customers to buy for a few days in advance.

- Determine your true cost of take-away service and price accordingly. 

- Review all the offerings you are proposing for take away to manage food cost and cover any delivery changes.

- Consider your take-away packaging. Just because we are in a crisis, doesn't mean people won't look at the details and how you are packaging take-away matters.

- Make your menu accessible online. 

- Share your take out menu with us. Tag us @BCTastesBetter, @EatDrinkBuyBC and @BCRFA.

If you don’t have an easy to edit website, consider what our partner Webnames.ca has offered for free 1-page websites. 

They have a one-page menu website that is easy to use and publish. All you have to do is fill in the blanks. This allows you to quickly adapt and create a menu that is tailored to what you can offer at this time. Webnames is offering BCRFA members these one-page sites for free for 1 year. Information is here: https://www.webnames.ca/website-togo 

The one-page website is a great opportunity to respond quickly, to change your online presence fast and confidently and to adapt as needed. Email membership@bcrfa.com to get the discount code.

Please reach out to us with any best practices that we can share with other operators. Helping each other and supporting other local businesses is paramount today and as we move forward. Contact us at: membership@bcrfa.com