The Rail

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As a restaurant owner, you can capitalize on these trends by showcasing seasonal menu items, behind-the-scenes kitchen prep , chef interviews, clips of special events, and customer testimonials to provide an authentic glimpse into the restaurant operations that fosters trust. Special events make for good video content as well.

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EATER

MARCH 26, 2025

The Travel buds Grand hotels are home to some of the French capitals most exciting and elegant meals, according to Eaters local dining expert and guidebook author Hotel restaurants tend to have a special energy. Book a table at Jacques Bar Book a room at the Hoxton The Travel Buds Dry-aged beef at Nonos & Comestibles.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

Promotions and discounts, like happy hour, bottomless brunch, or daily drink specials, are often popular ways to encourage customers to purchase drinks and spend more time and money at your restaurant. Amid forced closures, the pandemic influenced restaurant adaptations overnight. Market … Responsibly. Cocktails-To-Go.

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JULY 10, 2020

Stay tuned for a few special tips from Melissa Bensky, one of Toronto’s most prolific foodgrammers with her account, @tastethesix. Plan your budget to include food costs, labor costs, operating costs, marketing costs, and any extra costs such as for party favors and special decor. Invite influencers ?? Plan your staffing ?????

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

Today, the Michelin Guide continues to explore new markets and broaden its global influence. 3 Stars : Exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey. However, in recent decades, it has steadily expanded its scope, recognizing exceptional restaurants across North America, Asia, and the Middle East.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

bars & restaurants returned to and surpassed pre-pandemic levels of employment. Two out of three gift cards were bought to commemorate a special occasion and 87 percent featured a written note. Kimpton is particularly seeing a rise in Asian and French influences for the sweetest course. In September this year, there were 12.37

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

If you have a bar, bartenders who are trained in specific drink preparation techniques and bar management will deliver faster and more consistent service, which enhances the overall customer experience. Meanwhile, training for managerial positions and highly specialized roles like head chefs should take at least a month.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Vetting dining room, bar, and kitchen staff over the next decade will require probing more during job interviews, seeking candidates with more responsible lifestyles, advanced educational aspirations, and other evidence of a disciplined, drug-free work ethic will become even more of an HR imperative. Of course, people will always dine out.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 7, 2021

This is not some special type of email marketing. This way, you can strongly appeal to your customers’ hungry pangs and influence their dining decisions. Balcony dining, outdoor patio, indoor seating, rooftop bars or lounges. Make your email invites more special, valuable, and intriguing by adding videos.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 3, 2024

It is crucial to create a customer journey map and understand through which channels a guest can potentially learn about your restaurant, how they make a decision to visit the establishment, and what factors influence this. Showcase your staff members engaging in volunteer activities and share their personal experiences.

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The Rail

MARCH 7, 2023

Partner with Influencers & Local Businesses Influencer marketing can be a powerful way to reach a new audience and promote your restaurant. Find relevant Instagram influencers in your area or niche, and reach out to them to collaborate on a social media campaign.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It was in this chapter that I found a recipe for blueberry gooey butter bars, which François describes as the “love child of the famous St. Easy to follow, it made some very delicious, very gooey bars that were marred only slightly by a greasy shortbread crust. Louis gooey butter cake and a blueberry oat crisp.”

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MAY 31, 2024

Casual Dining Preferences Market Force Information unveiled a survey on casual dining preferences across the United States highlighting shifting trends influenced by economic factors and evolving consumer tastes. Economic shifts have significantly impacted consumer behavior, with 72.1

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7 Shifts

JULY 30, 2021

Check out this TikTok video from S3 Coffee Bar for some inspo! Influencer Marketing. By partnering with influencers on either of these platforms, you'll be able to get your restaurant in front of a whole new audience. Chances are you all have different expertise, specials, and concepts, that attract varying local foodies.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 15, 2020

But as much of the story written during the month, it is really the last two weeks that require special attention. Alcoholic beverages, in particular, can have an enormous impact on guest checks, especially for bar and grill and more upscale restaurants. restaurants, bars, clubs, etc.), Average guest checks grew by about 2.4

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Lavu

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Running a Bar: 7 Key Features You Need to Become The Best Bar POS System in 2024 In the bustling world of hospitality, the backbone of a bar’s success lies in its operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. That’s why inventory management is one of the most important features of a good bar POS system.

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The Rail

APRIL 4, 2024

By Vlad Iglin, Contributor Relocating a bar or pub is an adventure filled with unique challenges and rewarding solutions. This is especially true of restaurants, bars and pubs in the busy cities like San Francisco. They are the heart and soul of your bar, and you must keep them informed and involved.

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EATER

DECEMBER 1, 2023

At Ladder 4 Wine Bar in Detroit, you can add 28 grams of Kaluga caviar to hash browns. No matter the rest of the menu’s culinary influence or price points, it’s now common enough to find a $100-or-more caviar offering, about 4 teaspoons worth of luxury. Bunny’s in Baltimore offers it as an appetizer to fried chicken.

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EATER

OCTOBER 26, 2023

These relationships introduced regional culinary practices, but Phuket also felt culinary influences from the greater Muslim world, South Asia, and even Europe by extension. This decades-old shophouse restaurant specializes in yellow Hokkien-style noodles, served in broth and supplemented with dumplings and fish balls.

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Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Wine bars aren’t places for wine enthusiasts and snobs to gather and talk about the notes and tannins they get from their glasses. Instead, wine bars are popular restaurant destinations for friends to gather, dates to mingle, and events to take places. You can’t go one block without stumbling upon one or two NYC wine bars.

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EATER

MAY 2, 2024

Building on decades of Korean Mexican cuisine in the city’s Pequeño Seúl, restaurants are crafting menus with global influences and attracting new customers The smells of Korean barbecue and Mexican street food mingle in the air of Zona Rosa, a central neighborhood of Mexico City. The Mexican influence is natural.

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ChowNow

JULY 19, 2024

It’s a strategic tool that influences diner choices, enhances their dining experience, and ultimately drives your restaurant’s success. Additionally, think about recommended pairings, special combos, or offers that can encourage customers to try more items. Menu design can significantly influence customer behavior.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Avish Naran, founder of Pijja Palace , a wildly inventive and popular “Indian Sports Bar” in LA, says the process of coming up with a menu of dosa batter onion rings, saag paneer pizza, and brinjal curry pasta felt natural. “I Eventually, however, that demand for authenticity became too rigid a bar. He credits it to two things.

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7 Shifts

APRIL 13, 2021

And the reports for the team are nearly spot-on: “When [7shifts’] projects our sales, your bar graphs, and your line graphs are almost, if not, they're 95%. weather or a larger than average party size will influence any small adjustments based on the data. They're almost spot-on…” says Crumpton. Things like great (or bad!)

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EATER

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

And most recently a locavore, mountain-to-table food movement has built on these overlapping historical influences and endemic Rocky Mountain ingredients to create bold meals fit for the breathtaking setting. The Rundle Bar. Lake Louise: The bars at the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise are popular après-ski spots for ski bums to unwind.

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EATER

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The Italians created vermouth as we know it and the Catalan bourgeois embraced it, but over a century later, a new generation — from the design-agency set and cool millennial parents to grungy skaters and scrappy creatives — have lifted the humble drink up from the napkin-strewn depths of musty old-man bars to a spot in the limelight.

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Future Food

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Serai has been the trendsetter at the top of the game for a few years, now joined by Askal in Melbourne earlier this year and have just opened a rooftop bar called Inuman. This trend is not just in fine dining, but though positioning levels – bars/pubs, clubs, smart casual, fast casual, cafés, QSR and right down to impulse.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 12, 2020

Identify your audience Whether you’re running a lunchtime hotspot in the financial district or late-night takeout joint by bars and venues, knowing your customers is critical. Knowing they have a lunch special on Wednesdays is invaluable knowledge to have, and can inform your own decision making.

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Modern Restaurant Management

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Restaurateurs may very well look to expand beyond the typical pop up, food truck, festival or off-premises event to more interesting, intimate venues like social influencer kitchens, dining rooms and gardens. Now thoroughly destigmatized, more bars and restaurants will include a dedicated non-alcoholic section on their beverage menus.

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EATER

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I found something special, beautiful, and new. ABC managed to tap into a growing professional middle class in the region, which has partly been fueled by American influence. In addition to ABC, English pubs and wine bars have also popped up in Erbil’s stylish shopping centers. Just like Eric Meurs, Martani was impressed. “I

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EATER

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Smith Astral Portland’s food scene has always been defined by its scrappiness — chefs creating destination restaurants out of trailers, stalls, and neglected dive bar kitchens — so it’s no shock to find that the city’s best new restaurant is not a restaurant at all. . — Hillary Dixler Canavan Molly J. And that’s a good thing.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The study, conducted with third-party research firm YouGov, examined people’s preferences around hotel restaurants and bars, uncovering that F&B holds quite a bit of weight. Loyalty rewards for their restaurants and bars: Almost 1 in 3 (32 percent). The Local Influence. Miso Robotics Crowdfunding.

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EATER

DECEMBER 6, 2022

These 15 restaurants represent the most exciting openings of the year — be sure to try them if you find yourself in these cities and keep an eye out for these names as they shape and influence dining culture in the months and years to come. Some restaurants take time to reveal what makes them special. Hillary Dixler Canavan.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The white paper finds that different chains are utilizing different strategies to bolster foot traffic — including a mix of early-dining specials and limited-time offers. Texas Roadhouse is driving YoY visit growth in the face of price hikes with early dining specials. titled Pricing Strategies Driving Restaurant Visits in 2024.

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EATER

OCTOBER 17, 2023

2008: Cereal Milk launches an empire Christina Tosi invented or popularized a number of household-name desserts — Compost Cookies, Crack Pie ( now Milk Bar Pie ), naked cakes — but her Cereal Milk, which she initially developed at Wylie Dufresne’s wd~50, reshaped the dessert world. It could be used in nearly any dairy-based dessert.

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JUNE 1, 2020

The most updated On Premise Impact Report by Nielsen CGA, along with other special reports issued over the past several weeks, can be found here. Sense360 examined total restaurant and bar foot traffic trends by channel, daypart, weekday, ethnicity, urbanicity, and state vs. national. Open bar areas. Black Box Key Insights.

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EATER

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

That means that Meyer will exert his influence on Panera Bread, a fast-casual restaurant with more than 2,000 locations and a ferocious fanbase for its broccoli and cheddar soup and generally “wholesome” on-the-go options. Louis-style bagels are primed for a trending arc.)

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