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Restaurants Can Fight the Bite of Chargebacks (Infographic)

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Traditionally, this has meant that the manager comes out and apologizes to the guest, then offers a discount or a comped meal. Widespread adoption of branded apps, online ordering and delivery, accelerated by the Covid crisis, has forced restaurants to deal with an issue that they’ve mostly avoided until now: chargebacks.

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Expanding Your Business? Seven Tips to Improve Cash Flow to Fund a New Location

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Restaurant365’s State of the Industry Customer Survey shows that 60 percent of surveyed customers plan to expand their businesses in 2023 despite expected increased labor and food costs. It is important to consider if the first location has the cash flow to help financially carry the second location for a period of time if needed.

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A CPA’s Insight on Top Issues Restaurant Owners Face

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For restaurant owners, there are a number of issues in their workplace keeping them up at night and hindering them from successfully managing and operating their restaurant efficiently. Money and Inventory Management The profitability of a restaurant depends on the careful management of cash flow.

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Don’t Get Burned By The IRS – Tax Tips for Restaurant Owners

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By the time you manage inventory, staffing, customer demand and narrow profit margins, the last thing you want to think about is the IRS. Restaurants, like other cash-intensive businesses, are a frequently targeted for audits by the IRS. Operating a restaurant is not easy. This allows the auditor to verify the expenses.

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Everything You Need To Know About the Increasing Role of AI in Restaurants

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You are sitting in your favorite restaurant and have placed an order on a tablet at your table. After a few seconds of placing the order, a notification appears on your messaging app. Ding* ‘Your order is being prepared by Chef Bot 19 and will be delivered to your table in approximately 19 minutes.

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Steady Work: Best Restaurant Management Advice from Starbucks’ ‘Playbook’

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It’s relevant today because it helps restaurant leaders contend with enduring issues like crisis recovery, demand fluctuations, food waste, keeping the human touch, managing change, and retaining employees. This was fine until orders went from about one every 60 seconds to one every 20 seconds.

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How Can Restaurants Harness Technology to Combat COVID-19?

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Even as vaccines and more treatments become available, the food service industry – and many other sectors – will need to make heightened safety measures permanent to meet customers’ expectations and cultivate ongoing trust. Touchless Orders and Payments Cut Down Contact. Automation Is Becoming More Pervasive.