Month: June 2025

How One Strategy Drove +53% Sales—and You’re Probably Ignoring It

There’s a goldmine sitting inside your restaurant—and it’s not your food, your vibe, or even your team. It’s your customer database. If you’re like most restaurant operators, you’ve got thousands of guest emails and phone numbers buried in OpenTable, Toast, your POS, or some forgotten Mailchimp account. But here’s the brutal truth: Most restaurants collect […]

How to Actually Grow Catering Sales: What a Year of Data at Padrino’s Taught Us

Updated September 2026. This post was first published three months into the Padrino’s catering program. It has been updated with the full-year results. Most restaurants say they want to grow catering. Few actually do. And even fewer treat it like the revenue pillar it deserves to be. When they do, the results are real. Not […]