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Food Themed Fashion

By | March 6th, 2014|Design, Fashion, Food|

Fashion shows and fashion collections are becoming very creative. This year at various Fashion weeks, mixing together the ingredients of food and fashion have been a common recipe. What is the meaning though behind food and fashion. Many are saying that it is to represent the closeness between fast food and fast fashion. Fashion changes [...]

Creative Pancakes for Pancake Day

By | March 4th, 2014|Food, Seasonal|

Smart Restaurants have come up with a few ideas for you to make your Pancake Day more fun by being creative with your pancakes! Take a look at some fun shaped pancakes that we have chosen for you. Tie Shaped Pancake This pancake is great to make for your father after they come home after [...]

Mcdonald’s inspire Moschino – Fast Food Fashion!

By | March 3rd, 2014|Fashion, Restaurants, Takeaway|

Who would of ever of thought about mixing fashion and food together to create a whole new fashion collection. We have already seen food captured within art, where Andy Warhol incorporates food into his artwork, such as the famous Campbell Soup. Will this years latest fashion collection be so easily consumed by its customers as [...]

Mother’s Day

By | March 3rd, 2014|Food, Restaurants, Seasonal, Takeaway|

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 Food

By | February 28th, 2014|Food, Smart Phone App, Social Media|

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 [...]

The Benefits of Customer Loyalty

By | February 26th, 2014|Food, Restaurants, Smart Phone App, Takeaway|

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 [...]

“Best Before” or “Use By” What is the Difference?

By | February 26th, 2014|Food|

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 [...]

Pancake Day

By | February 26th, 2014|Food, Seasonal|

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 [...]

Should we Always Tip in Restaurants?

By | February 25th, 2014|Food, Restaurants|

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 [...]

National Chip Week 2014

By | February 19th, 2014|Food, Restaurants, Takeaway|

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 [...]