The Dinehere Blog
Tips, trends, and expert advice to help your restaurant thrive in the digital age.
The Irish Restaurant Review-Response Checklist
A calm, repeatable way to respond to every review — good and bad — plus what the Defamation (Amendment) Act 2026 changed for Irish owners facing a fake or defamatory review.
How to Control Food Costs in Your Irish Restaurant
Food inflation has eased, but four years of stacked ingredient rises have pushed food cost to over 34% of turnover. Here are the levers you actually control — waste, menu engineering, stock discipline and pricing — with a worked food-cost % example in euro.
What Are the 14 Allergens? An Irish Restaurant Owner's Guide to Allergen Labelling
The 14 allergens you must declare by law in Ireland, the written-information rule for loose food, and how the FSAI enforces it — explained for restaurant owners.
Best Online Ordering Systems for Irish Restaurants 2026
Deliveroo and Just Eat take 25–35% of every order. Here's how Flipdish, Storekit, GloriaFood and Square compare for taking orders direct — and keeping the commission.
9 Ways Irish Restaurants Are Cutting Overheads in 2026
Irish restaurant electricity is up 96% and 150 food businesses closed in early 2025. Here are 9 concrete, Ireland-specific levers owners are pulling in 2026 to cut energy, insurance, fees and the rest of the fixed-cost stack.
The Irish Restaurant Employment Law Compliance Checklist
The WRC carried out 5,596 workplace inspections in 2025 and named food service a high-risk sector. Use this checklist to get contracts, pay, leave and records right before an inspector walks in.
How to Reduce Staff Turnover in Your Irish Restaurant
Re-hiring keeps bleeding Irish restaurants while labour costs climb. Here's a practical, low-cost retention playbook to keep the good staff you already have — the cheaper lever when you can't afford to over-hire.
How Much Do Deliveroo and Just Eat Really Cost Irish Restaurants? (2026)
Deliveroo and Just Eat take 25–35% of every Irish order in 2026 — many owners now call commission "the new rent". Here's the real per-order teardown in euro, and how to keep more of each sale.
What Is the Hospitality VAT Rate? An Irish Restaurant Owner's Guide
Ireland's hospitality VAT rate drops from 13.5% to 9% on food and catering from 1 July 2026 — but alcohol and soft drinks stay at 23%. Here's exactly what it covers.
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