What will you be doing for Mothering Sunday this year to spoil your mother and make her feel special? Smart Restaurants have come up with a few hints and tips to make Mother's Day extra special this year. Breakfast Start Mother’s Day with a nice breakfast for your mother to wake up to. Spoil her [...]
Social Media With the rise of social networking and friends being able to connect easily through social media sites, it is now easier to arrange get togethers and one of those is mainly getting together over some food, whether it be breakfast, lunch or dinner. Eating food at a restaurant or having a takeaway at [...]
Target Market Understanding your target market and what they want out of you as a business, product or service is so important as it can affect those customers who will regularly visit you or only visit the once. The customers that choose you over your competitors are your loyal customers and it is these customers [...]
A lot of people can easily get confused by the difference between the “best before” or the “use by” dates that are printing onto the packaging of food. Many see the date on the packaging as being the date that it needs to be eaten up by and they don’t like to eat the product [...]
Less than one week to go until Pancake Day! Less than one week to eat up all of the things you enjoy, until you have to give them up until Easter time! At Smart Restaurants we are deciding what we are going to put with our pancakes this year, will it be the traditional squeezed [...]
With how costly it can be to go out for a meal, is it right that we then feel obliged to add an additional 10% of the total cost to pay as a tip? We don’t always receive the best service in restaurants, so where do we draw the line on tipping? When do we [...]
The 17th-23rd February 2014 is National Chip Week. At Smart Restaurants we are deciding what the best kind of chips are as there are just so many different varieties! French Fries French fries can be very nice tasting, but with the thinness of them, they can sometimes not be very filling and they also cool [...]
Shrove Tuesday Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake Day, comes about each year during either February or March, depending on when Easter is. The history behind Shrove Tuesday is that it is the last day before Lent and falls 47 days before Easter Sunday. A lot of the time individuals will give up something in [...]
With the age of new technology we expect there to be updated phones, cameras and televisions, but how about updating food? Not long from now we will be seeing purple tomatoes hitting the supermarkets and being able to buy them. So how about the change from red tomatoes to purple. Will this mean that we [...]
Valentines Day is a day of romance for couples. It is a day that couples can express their love to one another through valentines cards, gifts and usually having a meal together. As Valentines day this year falls on a friday, many couples may take the opportunity of going away for the weekend and turning [...]