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The demands of the modern bar are significant: inventory issues, demanding customers, volatile prices, and — perhaps the biggest of all — staffing, scheduling, and other labor concerns. Bar management software is a tech-forward way to handle many of the elements necessary to operate a bar successfully. Depending on the solution you choose, this software could include features that help with employee management, inventory tracking, POS capabilities, payroll, and more.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In a landscape where precision equates to performance, prepping your commercial kitchen for the sweltering conditions and guest upsurge of the warmer months is an exercise in foresight and expertise. The foundational strategy focuses on two pivotal elements: maintaining rigorous standards for commercial refrigeration and ensuring a robust plan to manage increased customer flow.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The demands of the modern bar are significant: inventory issues, demanding customers, volatile prices, and — perhaps the biggest of all — staffing, scheduling, and other labor concerns. Bar management software is a tech-forward way to handle many of the elements necessary to operate a bar successfully. Depending on the solution you choose, this software could include features that help with employee management, inventory tracking, POS capabilities, payroll, and more.

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Inventory Bar Management Management 195

Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

CEO Aman Narang said the company grew too quickly as it raced to meet demand. The cuts are intended to lower its operating costs.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Originally published in the Aaron Allen & Associates newsletter on 02/12/2024. We’ve recently been asked a lot to work as an objective third party to validate new models, speed of operations, new initiatives (from changes in positioning to new prototypes to what geographies to launch into), long-term strategic plans, and brand portfolios. The value of a restaurant expert, a professional second opinion, cannot be overstated.

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A former employee of Sun Holdings had accused the 150-unit Popeyes operator of reneging on a promise of 5% of the annual operating profits.

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Traffic for the fast-casual chain was up 1.4% in Q4. And the burger brand is testing combo meals for the first time.

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The Salt

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Food stylists will sometimes swap glue for milk and coat meat with motor oil. But on the set of The Taste of Things , the meals were real — and the actors kept eating after the director yelled "Cut!

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EATER

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Jenny Zarins/Ebury Press Russell Norman’s version of the Tuscan bread soup is a powerful antidote to February Here we sit, deep in the abyss of February, in need of soup mugs , DayQuil, hope, and nourishment. So thank goodness for recipes like Russell Norman’s spin on ribollita, the Tuscan bread soup whose comforting heft offers sustenance for both body and spirit.

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Margin Edge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

MarginEdge | We took data from thousands of restaurants across the country and compiled a report to show sales trends for the month of January 2024.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Getty Images All it takes is two ingredients and a little bit of time This post originally appeared in the February 14, 2024 edition of The Move, the weekly newsletter full of pro tips and advice from Eater’s dining experts, direct to your inbox. Subscribe now. I buy creme fraiche once a year, tops. At around $7 for the tiniest tub, it’s not something that really makes sense in my grocery budget, especially in this moment of ever-increasing prices at the supermarket.

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Kirk Tanner announced $100 million worth of investments in breakfast marketing and digital upgrades in a bid to kick-start the fast-food chain’s growth.

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Margin Edge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This month we look at: steak and lobster prices, where to find well-trained staff, tax prep, and national restaurant sales and inflation trends from January.

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The owner of Dunkin' and Arby's is in the early stages of discussions on an initial public offering that could value the company at $20 billion, according to Bloomberg.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

And the backlash that followed from customers outraged at the "He Gets Us" campaign’s anti-LGBTQ roots

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Taste Tracker: Get bowled over at Jamba; hot honey returns to Wingstop; Moe’s fires up birria; and Bob Evans expands winter menu.

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Revel Systems

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Being able to ensure customer success is contingent upon having a great relationship with your customers. There was a time when a business’ options were limited, whatever the company size, to putting a few static ads out on mainstream media and staffing a phone center.

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The fast-food chicken chain is already the No. 3 provider of quick-service wings, the company said. And the company has plans to improve its ability to serve them.

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

With the transaction, early investor Jimmy John Liautaud of sandwich chain fame sold his stake in the drive-thru coffee-stand concept.

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The 33-year-old chef and restaurateur has earned Michelin stars and industry cred by constantly striving for excellence and evolution.

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