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Eat, Drink and Be Merry: Properly Prepping Your Bar for the Holiday Rush

Modern Restaurant Management

The increased challenges and stress of the holiday season often reveal pinch points in bar and restaurant operations. The holidays bring an increase in beverage inventory, particularly kegged inventory for bars and restaurants centered around draft programs. Manage and Optimize Your Increased Holiday Inventory.

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Flag on the Play! Four Penalties Your Bar Can Avoid During Super Bowl Weekend 

Modern Restaurant Management

Regular season game days at the bar are crowded and hectic enough, but Super Bowl weekend? According to National Retail Federation, nearly 18 million fans plan to watch the Super Bowl at their favorite bar. Here are coaching tips to get your team ready for a super weekend in your bar. That’s a whole different ballgame!

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Here Are the 2025 James Beard Awards Restaurant and Chef Award Finalists

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The announcement included nominees for Outstanding Restaurateur, Best New Restaurant, and the regional Best Chef awards, as well as finalists for three new categories: Best New Bar, Outstanding Professional in Beverage Service, and Outstanding Professional in Cocktail Service. Check out the full list of finalists below.

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Owning a Bar: Everything You Need to Know

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Opening and owning a bar is one of those unique life experiences; you have no idea what it will be like until you actually go for it. In this guide, we're covering everything you need to know about owning a bar to prepare as well as you can for the big opening day. How Do I Run a Profitable Bar?

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Restaurant Design Trends for 2021

Modern Restaurant Management

This also allows restaurants, bars, breweries, and other local shops to collaborate and share patrons. It has evolved the mall food court into an upscale environment that shares all types of restaurants, bars, and craft breweries. Taking this concept one step further, there is also the “Hall Concept."

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Krystal parent SPB Hospitality sells its brewery concepts to Champps owner

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The restaurant group sold Rock Bottom, Gordon Biersch and other brewery brands to Kelly Companies, which operates a handful of bar concepts.

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How Coronavirus Could Change the Way You Get Your Favorite Craft Beer

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Competition is fierce for cans, labels, and customers as breweries rush to package their beer for home drinking It’s been a rough couple of months for craft beer. Like the coffee and wine industries, the entire beer ecosystem was upended as the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered breweries, closed bars, and scared people away from beer shops.

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