By Doug Alexander

July 5 (Bloomberg) -- Toronto restaurants were among the city’s businesses most hurt by the Group of 20 summit, with a decline in sales of as much as 67 percent in some areas, said Canada’s largest debit and credit-card processor.

Spending fell at Toronto stores, restaurants, tourist spots and entertainment venues from June 25 to June 27, when world leaders along with thousands of police and protesters occupied Canada’s largest city for the G-20 gathering, according to Moneris Solutions Corp.

The emergence of Group Buying sites may have additional benefits to restaurant operators in Toronto who see the value of a NEW Customer.  The additional exposure of 50+ NEW customers in one campaign can carry a lot of weight with any business.  All you have to do now is manage the expectations of your new customers and in some cases you have a customer for life.  The concept of "doing a deal" for your restaurant isn't always about image, it's about showing people your image while they are dining with you.  It's your chance to gain "a regular".  The typical restaurant deal often offers a discount to the potential guest but the structure of the deal can easily work in your favour.  After all you're only dealing with your food cost per person and statistics show that each restaurant deal visitor usually spends more once he/she is in the establishment.  We recommend that you seriously look at this form of restaurant marketing as a valuable tool in your advertising plans.

Toronto Food Safety

A little more than a decade after global warming, gradually disappearing rain forests and endangered species ruled our collective conscience, new concerns have started to dominate our concerns: pesticides, mad cow disease, e-coli genetically modified foods, fungicides, growth hormones and food safety.

Want to improve your restaurant's profitability?  A restaurant POS and management software system is a great first step.  A POS delivers more than just a powerful, easy to use restaurant point of sale application.  Today they offer an entire range of solutions to solve your most critical business needs.  Whether you're operating a small restaurant or part of a multi-national franchise, the technology can help you improve your restaurant operations and increase your profitability

  To open a restaurant could entail thousands of details but that would make it very cumbersome to include them in an article such as this so I am going to simplify and discuss the 25 major points that I deem necessary to successfully open a restaurant. 

Toronto Wine Tasting

Attending a wine tasting can be very entertaining, however there are a vast majority of wannabe wine connoisseur's out there who don't like to attend these gatherings as they do not know what they are supposed to do or what way to act when sampling the wine. With wine tasting there is no great mystery, here are just a few things you should keep in mind