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How menu engineering can be the ultimate restaurant profit-boosting tool

It started in the 70`s when Bruce D. Henderson created the growth-share matrix for the Boston Consulting Group. Its aim was to help businesses to analyze a particular product performance within the entire product line. It is simple yet effective approach if correctly applied.

Restaurant owners and managers can benefit too. The growth-share matrix, also known as the Boston Matrix has its restaurants’ custom-made version, called menu engineering. It is a data-driven approach to boosting a restaurant` profit. In this blog post, we are going to share with you how to do it easy and effective as possible.

How Boston Matrix Can Boost (Almost) Any Business

Boston Matrix is a simple analytics diagram displaying business data in a convenient manner to deliver insights to managers on the performance of a product in terms of profitability and sales volumes. This data visualization approach, also known as growth-share matrix or portfolio diagram can be applied not just in terms of product performance but also in terms of ranking almost everything, including customers, revenue sources, marketing activities, etc. It is suitable even for NGOs willing to be more efficient in fundraising.