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	<description>A financial blog from Advance Restaurant Finance offering information and advice to restaurant and small business owners.</description>
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		<title>9 Ways Restaurants Can Use Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Should your restaurant be on Facebook?  Well, Facebook has over 400 million users, and it claims that 50% of its active users log in at least once per day.  It’s a great way to promote your restaurant and its goings on and best of all, it’s free.  So the question is really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.advancerestaurantfinance.com/blog/business-general/9-ways-restaurants-can-use-facebook.html</link>
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		<title>Why Your “Free” Credit Score Isn’t Worth Paying For</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, offers to get your “credit score” for free are everywhere. When you rely on this free credit score, however, you find it can vary significantly from the credit score used by a lender making a credit decision. Why? Because these scores are just estimates of your general credit worthiness, and not the credit score [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.advancerestaurantfinance.com/blog/credit/why-your-%e2%80%9cfree%e2%80%9d-credit-score-isn%e2%80%99t-worth-paying-for.html</link>
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		<title>Some Reasons Restaurants Fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About 5 years ago, Dr. H.G. Parsa, currently the chairman of the Foodservice and Lodging Management Department, Rosen College of Hospitality Management, University of Central Florida studied restaurant 1st year failure rates and also why most restaurants failed.
Even though we’ve probably all heard the urban legend that 90% of all restaurants fail in the 1st [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.advancerestaurantfinance.com/blog/business-general/some-reasons-restaurants-fail.html</link>
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		<title>10 Common Practices of Successful Independent Restaurants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Successful Independents work ON not IN their Businesses
Almost without exception, highly successful independent restaurants today are owned by people who spend most of their time managing their business versus running the restaurant. This trait can be summed up by one successful operator who said “I don’t cook. It’s my job to work on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.advancerestaurantfinance.com/blog/business-general/10-common-practices-of-successful-independent-restaurants.html</link>
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		<title>10 Proven Ways to Build Restaurant Sales and Profits (6 through 10)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tip No. 6: Start A Late Night Menu
What kind of business are you doing late in the evening?  If you are like most operators, the answer is probably, &#8220;Not much.”  How about developing a late night meal segment to turn those wasted hours into increased volume?
A successful example of developing the late night trade comes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.advancerestaurantfinance.com/blog/business-general/10-proven-ways-to-build-restaurant-sales-and-profits-6-through-10.html</link>
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		<title>10 Proven Ways to Build Restaurant Sales and Profits (1 through 5)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tip No. 1: Marketing: Keep it in the Neighborhood
Imagine a circle around your restaurant with a radius of three miles. Now, imagine that everyone outside that ring disappears. You would hardly notice the effect on your business!
Research shows that nearly 80% of restaurant sales &#8211; whether a one-store independent or a member of a major [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.advancerestaurantfinance.com/blog/business-general/10-proven-ways-to-build-restaurant-sales-and-profits-1-through-5.html</link>
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		<title>Market Your Restaurant Using an 80/20, 4% Factor Approach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The community marketing concept rests on the premise that brands are built by communities of like-minded individuals who share their brand experiences with friends and those with whom they have some connection. By identifying those communities and finding creative ways to get them to help recruit your next customers, you can see significant and sustainable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.advancerestaurantfinance.com/blog/business-general/market-your-restaurant-using-an-8020-4-factor-approach.html</link>
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		<title>Increasing Sales through Social Media (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We all have been told that Social Media sites and applications, such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are the &#8220;new frontier&#8221; for marketing. In a few short years, the old question of &#8220;do you have a website&#8221; has been replaced with &#8220;do you have a YouTube Channel?&#8221;
Unfortunately, few people tell us how to harness the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.advancerestaurantfinance.com/blog/business-general/using-social-media-for-restaurants-part-1.html</link>
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		<title>10 Mistakes Your Servers Shouldn&#8217;t Make (6 through 10)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a list of the second 5 (out of 10) most annoying server errors as related by diners who have suffered through them. Most of these mistakes are caused by a lack of attention and most have easy fixes, but you be the judge.
6. Inappropriate pacing of the meal
Diners don&#8217;t like to feel rushed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Mistakes Your Servers Shouldn’t Make (1 through 5)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a list of the first 5 (out of 10) most annoying server errors as related by diners who have suffered through them. Most of these mistakes are caused by a lack of attention and most have easy fixes, but you be the judge.
1. Servers with boundary issues
These come in many variations, but include:


Servers [...]]]></description>
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