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The Cost of B-ing Good

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B Corp Certification, a credential bestowed by the non-profit organization B Labs, is a way for businesses to address those concerns and more as they undertake an in-depth auditing process, and come out with a seal of authenticity around their sustainability and social responsibility claims and a branding kit to help promote it.

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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Three Ways to Bring Your ‘A’ Game to Accessibility 

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Beyond the proven existential economic threat of COVID-19, restaurant owners and operators are facing uphill-battle challenges to their defining characteristic, accessibility. Think about it. Here are three ways that digitizing menus can help improve accessibility. Get Rid of PDFs. The downside, of course: PDFs are not inherently accessible.

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Five Steps for Leveraging Digital Data Collection to Manage Changing Rules and Challenging Times

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For franchises, that means making sure your evaluations and data collection house in order. Use Front and Back-of-House Dashboards to Stay Aligned. By using back-of-house dashboards to track sanitization compliance, you can easily keep staff in the loop. Define Data-Based, Measurable Standards. across your franchises.

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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

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– Salad House CEO Joey Cioffi In 2025, restaurant chains will increase their usage of connected equipment to be more responsive, resilient, and ready to meet evolving customer expectations in a data-first, efficiency-focused world. At the same time, technology is poised to play an even bigger role in the coming year.

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From Recipe to Retail: Steps to Create a Sellable Product

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Are your customers always asking to take home some extras of your salsa, BBQ sauce, or house salad dressing? Do you think there might be a market to actually sell it; first at your restaurant and then to local retailers/grocers but you have no idea where do you start? Step #1: Make Sure You Have Funding Do you have money?

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It’s Time to Focus on the Good

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Very often the prize might be a bottle of wine, a gift certificate or cash. Imagine you have a restaurant that seats 120 and you have only one bartender and one server to handle the front-of-the-house. They remind us not only that there are great people out there, but also that many of them work for us! Caring Managers.

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Four Ways to Streamline Reopening Procedures for Restaurants

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Common sanitation precautions being taken include lowered occupancy limits, mask requirements, and in-house social distancing. ServeSafe and food handler certification. Front-of-house (FOH), back-of-house (BOH), and management should feel comfortable immediately discussing any questions that arise related to new policies.

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