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Growing a Restaurant Strategically – The Keys Are Alignment, Timing and Control

Modern Restaurant Management

Ambitious restaurateurs often want to expand quickly to capitalize on initial success. However, rapid growth without an intentional strategy frequently erodes quality, culture and profits over time. Sustainable restaurant expansion requires balancing excitement with patience and perspective. There’s an art to scaling any small business intelligently.

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How Restaurants Can Use Collaborative Schedule Editing

Crunchtime

Work jointly with your team to create schedules more efficiently. Collaborative schedule editing from Crunchtime Labor & Scheduling makes it easy for managers to work together and get more done in less time. Read this article to learn how you can leverage this feature for your restaurant.

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2024 Outlook: Glass Half Full? 

Modern Restaurant Management

It’s a common assumption that past performance is the best predictor of future behavior, but the last few years have been anything but common. Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) rode the wave of unprecedented consumer behavior shifts and the successes and challenges it brought along. So, what can the QSR industry expect in 2024? Looking back at last quarter’s performance suggests the glass is proverbially half full.

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How to Set up a Restaurant Inventory PAR Sheet

Sculpture Hospitality

Effective inventory management is the cornerstone of success for your restaurant. Strategic inventory management can reduce waste, increase your company’s profit margins and help deliver a superior customer experience.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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‘The Zuni Cafe Cookbook’ Is a Master Class in California Cuisine

EATER

Lille Allen/Eater Judy Rodgers’s 2002 classic is a 500-page testament to the enduring importance of little details Let’s imagine for a second that Judy Rodgers had a perfectly ordinary senior year at Ladue High School, just outside of St. Louis, eating supermarket vegetables and pizza covered in processed cheese. Afterward, she would have gone to Stanford to study art history and then to law school and a distinguished career in the foreign service, because Rodgers, in addition to being a planner

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Food costs have come down, but they remain high

Restaurant Business

The Bottom Line: Falling food costs give operators more options for dealing with traffic. But not all prices are falling. And the deflation could help retailers a lot more than restaurants.

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How to Open a Cat Cafè in 2024: A Complete Guide

The Eat Restaurant

Opening a cat café can be extremely successful if you plan well and work hard. Here's the ultimate guide to help you get started.

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How Your Restaurant Can Benefit From Tableside Ordering

Mad Mobile

In today’s fast-paced world where convenience is king and customer experience reigns supreme, restaurants are switching up their service game. Welcome the simplicity and efficiency of tableside ordering services. In this blog, we will share the advantages of using a tableside ordering system that can elevate your establishment from good to delicious.

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Starbucks loses the occasional customer

Restaurant Business

The coffee giant reported strong results from its loyalty members, who came into its shops more often and spent more in the process. But everybody else was a problem.

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It’s OK to Say “Mocktail”

EATER

Using "mocktail" to describe a nonalcoholic cocktail has long been criticized by bartenders and drinkers, but it's time to change that.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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Yelp will use AI to generate restaurant descriptions

Restaurant Business

The short summaries are one of several new AI-powered features on the review site that are designed to make it easier for consumers to find what they're looking for.

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AI Won’t Solve Yelp’s Problems

EATER

Tero Vesalainen/Shutterstock The restaurant review site is adding large language model-written summaries. They probably won’t make it any better. On January 30, Yelp announced that it too had succumbed to the allures of large language models, aka “AI.” In a press release , chief product officer Craig Saldanha says the review website is adding 20 new updates, including “AI-powered business summaries that make it even easier to find a business that fits your needs with a quick glance.

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US Foods awarded $12M default judgment against Boston Market

Restaurant Business

A federal court judge cited the fast-casual chain's "willful disregard" for the litigation in ruling in favor of the giant distributor, which had sued for unpaid bills.

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For the love of service: 12 ways to show restaurant workers love on Valentine's Day

Margin Edge

Valentine's Day is often considered a day for love and affection, but for those who work in the restaurant industry, it can be a stressful and overwhelming holiday. Have you ever tried to refill someone's water glass when they suddenly get down on one knee and propose, hoping the ring doesn't disintegrate from the sparkling wine bath it's currently sitting in?

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Food & Beverage Industry Report 2024

Driven by a diverse and exciting ecosystem of passionate, ambitious, and often young entrepreneurs, the Food & Beverage (F&B) sector is a highly competitive environment full of immense challenges and exciting opportunities. Expert Market’s 2024 industry report, sponsored by Toast, is informed by a survey of 522 U.S. food and beverage professionals, from restaurant owners to food service managers, providing insights into the real-time challenges and opportunities within the industry.

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How the once-mighty are falling in casual dining

Restaurant Business

Restaurant Rewind: Dominance within the full-service sector has shifted appreciably during the last 20 years. Here’s a look at how the balance of power has shifted, humbling two powerhouses in particular.

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Eat App & Tap Partner for Effortless Online Payments & Deposits

The Eat Restaurant

Eat App and Tap partner to bring you a best-in-class solution for taking payments online and capturing deposits before guests arrive. Available across the MENA region, this new partnership offers your guests the opportunity to select the most suitable payment method for them along with an extremely friendly user experience. Receive guest deposits with ease Eat App, your go-to reservation system is making online payment a breeze with its brand-new Tap integration.

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Another small restaurant chain is planning an IPO

Restaurant Business

Sushi Ginza Onodera, a Tokyo-based chain of 12 upscale sushi restaurants, has filed for an $8 million initial public offering in the U.S.

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The $10 Trillion Benefits of Overhauling Our Food System

EATER

A new report lays out two very different paths forward.

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The HR Leader’s Survival Guide

HR leaders drowning in paperwork struggle to meet C-suite's strategic expectations. Burnout and high turnover plague the field, with 95% feeling overwhelmed. This guide explores how the right tools can free HR from admin tasks and empower them to become the strategic leaders they’re meant to be.

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Olo agrees to settle shareholder lawsuit for $9M

Restaurant Business

Investors accused the company of failing to properly disclose that it was losing Subway as a client. Olo continued to deny any wrongdoing.

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SevenRooms acquires text-message marketing app HeyPluto

Restaurant Business

It’s the first acquisition for the tech supplier and will allow restaurants to text their guests with the help of artificial intelligence.

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Healthier eating may be a menu’s font size away

Restaurant Business

Size matters when it comes to listing calorie counts, as customers may be more likely to choose a menu item when nutrition info is printed in a larger typeface.

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