Fri.Sep 08, 2023

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Six Important Steps Restaurants Should Take to Build a Strong Food Safety Culture

Modern Restaurant Management

Ensuring food safety is essential for restaurant brands and others within the food industry. A weak food safety culture can have severe consequences, including product recalls, foodborne illnesses, reputational damage, diminished customer loyalty, and financial losses. Restaurants and other food businesses must prioritize building and maintaining a strong food safety culture to mitigate these risks.

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A Square Outage Hits the Service Industry Hard

EATER

Square’s point-of-sale system is used by millions of small businesses. | Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images The point-of-sale system has experienced widespread disruptions to multiple services On Thursday, the payment processing company Square experienced a widespread outage. The point-of-sale system is used by millions of small businesses, including restaurants and food vendors, and the network’s downtime left many of them unable to process transactions.

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New 'super-regional' distribution network aims to rival the big nationals

Restaurant Business

Legacy Food Group has acquired four local distributors and said it intends to offer the benefits of scale without the headaches.

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‘In Pursuit of Flavor’ Taught Us to Treat Ingredients With Respect

EATER

Lille Allen/Eater Edna Lewis’s third cookbook reminds us that it’s the raw materials that make food taste the way it’s supposed to taste In one respect, Edna Lewis’s childhood put her at an advantage over many American chefs: She grew up knowing what food should taste like. This happened in Freetown, a small farming community in central Virginia founded just after the Civil War by three newly emancipated Blacks, including Lewis’s grandfather, Chester Lewis.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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Square outage disrupts business for restaurants nationwide

Restaurant Business

The issue began Thursday and prevented operators from accepting payments for hours. It appeared to have been resolved by Friday afternoon.

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115: Thriving with Brahm at the Inn at Shaker Mill Falls

Food Business

Brahm is the farmer at the regenerative farm at The Inn at Shaker Mill Farm. Listen to this episode as an expert on how regenerative farming, is much like speaking another language in it's ability to give you new perspective, and positive perspective on life. This episode is as much about the life force that you carry in your daily life as it is about how regernative farming is the life force for our planets future.

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The Dozen – Blanc Page

Sante

Is Sauvignon Blanc becoming as ubiquitous as Chardonnay as a go-to white?

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‘Climate-Friendly’ Beef Could Land in a Meat Aisle Near You. Don’t Fall for It.

EATER

The meat giant says some of its USDA-approved burgers are climate-smart, but it refuses to explain how.

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Cooking chicken soup for the Shabbat soul

The Salt

Cookbook author Adeena Sussman makes Dilly Chicken and Rice Soup from her book Shabbat: Recipes and Rituals from My Table to Yours.

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“Make This If You Can”

EATER

People are printing out favorite cocktail recipes, from preferred Martini specs to unhinged tequila drinks, to hand to bartenders on cards.

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The Funding Recipe for Your Restaurant – A Guide To Growing Your Business

Fuel your restaurant’s success with our comprehensive 2025 funding guide! Running a restaurant comes with unique financial challenges, from managing seasonal fluctuations to covering unexpected expenses like equipment repairs or ingredient shortages. This guide dives into fast, flexible financing options for restaurant owners. Discover how to bridge cash flow gaps, fund expansions, or navigate slow seasons without compromising service quality.

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Love is in the air for Cinnabon and Slim Jim

Restaurant Business

Marketing Bites: Slim Jim and Cinnabon plan a wedding, Wendy’s brings back its Frosty Boo! Books and restaurant chains celebrate National Waffle Week.

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Join Eater on Book Tour in NYC, LA, SF, Portland, DC, and More

EATER

We’re coming to a city near you to celebrate out first ever cookbook As Eater gears up for the publication of its first ever cookbook, Eater: 100 Essential Restaurant Recipes from the Authority on Where to Eat and Why It Matters , we’ve been busy planning events around the country. Events will spotlight local chefs and industry insiders featured in the cookbook and run the gamut from parties to bookstore signings to panel talks to demos.

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Restaurants might have dodged a bullet with DOL's overtime-pay proposal. Here's why.

Restaurant Business

Working Lunch: Restaurants will feel the impact, but the new rules could have been far worse.

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Restaurant Sales - DC - August 2023

Margin Edge

Full Service and Fast Casual DMV restaurants in August showed strong sales growth. Sales for both segments ended the month of August on a high, bringing summer to a close with some great news!

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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In appreciation of White Castle's Impossible Slider

Restaurant Business

The Bottom Line: The burger chain kicked off the plant-based, fast-food trend with the introduction of the menu item five years ago. While the trend has slowed at quick-service concepts, that doesn’t make the move any less important.

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Adeena Sussman's new cookbook includes Shabbat recipes from around the world

The Salt

NPR's Daniel Estrin visits cookbook author Adeena Sussman to talk about her latest book, Shabbat: Recipes and Rituals from My Table to Yours.

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3 business legends reveal their restaurant plans

Restaurant Business

Reality Check: Starbucks’ Howard Schultz, Tesla’s Elon Musk, and serial tech disruptor Marc Lore are betting they can change the restaurant industry with new ventures. Here’s a look at what they’re envisioning.

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The Most Anticipated Restaurant Openings Landing in U.S. Cities This Fall

EATER

The team behind Ittoryu Gozu in the Bay Area is bringing a listening bar with yakitori skewers and whiskey to Mission Street. | Patricia Chang /Eater Get ready for juicy yakitori and hi-fi vibes, kamayan-style Filipino tasting menus, and more It wouldn’t be fall without a whole lot of restaurant and bar openings, and chefs across the nation are delivering.

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HR’s Blueprint for a Successful 2025

The HR industry is changing. Did you know… 1. There will be 4M more jobs than workers by 2033 ( BLS ). 2. For 84% of workers, flexibility is a top priority ( FlexJobs ). 3. 75% of employees have used AI at work ( CFO.com ). It’s time to meet the moment! Use Paycor’s guide to design a blueprint for success.

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Sizzler aims for a renaissance by unabashedly embracing its past

Restaurant Business

The chain plans to remind lapsed patrons of what they once enjoyed, with hopes they'll bring younger members of the family back with them.

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34 Restaurant Subject Lines that Converts

The Eat Restaurant

Discover how to create subject lines for restaurant emails that work and give samples of effective subject lines for a range of themes and situations.

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Zunzi's and Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken name new executives

Restaurant Business

Executive Summary: A roundup of high-level job changes in the restaurant business includes appointments for Fontainebleau Las Vegas.

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How I Got My Job: Making Knives for Top Chefs

EATER

Photoillustration: Lille Allen/Eater; portrait: Andrew Cebulka Quintin Middleton apprenticed as a bladesmith, making swords before turning to custom chef’s knives In How I Got My Job , folks from across the food and restaurant industry answer Eater’s questions about, well, how they got their job. Today’s installment: Quintin Middleton. In 2008, after six years of working as a bladesmith’s apprentice, learning to craft hunting knives and swords, Quintin Middleton had a life-changing dream.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.