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How Optimizing Your Payment Processing Strategy Can Mitigate Financial Challenges Facing Restaurateurs

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants and franchises face numerous financial challenges that can hinder their success, however, by optimizing their payment processing strategy, these businesses can overcome some of the major obstacles faced by restaurants in their early start, helping them to achieve greater stability and ultimately profitability. Payment processing pricing structures often used by restaurants allow providers to layer their processing fees on top of other underlying debit and credit card fees.

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Meet Me at the Melting Pot?

EATER

The 40-year-old fondue chain certainly has nostalgic vibes, but an effort to revamp the brand aims to bring the Melting Pot into the future. If you have been to the Melting Pot before, it was likely on a date. Maybe it was a first date, where dipping bread cubes and apple chunks into a pot of burbling cheese, cooked right at your table, offered a welcome distraction from the awkwardness of getting to know a new person.

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Cava wraps landmark year with traffic growth exceeding 10%

Restaurant Business

Now comes the hard work of lapping a strong first year as a public company, but the fast-casual chain is well positioned for more "normalized" growth.

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A Guide to Achieving Success With Retail Recruitment

SpotOn

A successful retail operation needs a great team. This is because, to a huge extent, retail is all about personality. Establishing a rapport with the customer, finding out their needs, and pointing out the solutions your business offers are elements that some people find easier than others.  Your team needs people who can bring these abilities to the table.

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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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Staying ahead of the next big menu moves

Restaurant Business

Technomic’s new State of the Menu report recommends actions chain operators can take to move their menus forward this year.

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Can a Bar Inventory Management System add 10% to Your Bottom Line?

Mad Mobile

Are you keeping a close eye on your beer, wine, & liquor inventory costs? Operators who calculate their cost of sales add 2–10% to their bottom line. Meanwhile, a restaurant’s bar program represents a significant source of total revenue. It also has one of the most complex stock lists. Because liquor, wine, and beer have such wildly varying prices, it pays to keep tight controls on ordering and inventory.

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Emergency Pizza and loyalty drove Domino's sales last quarter

Restaurant Business

The pizza chain's transactions increased late last year, largely due to the unique buy-one, get-one-free promotion and growth in its reconfigured Domino's Rewards loyalty program.

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FTC and 9 states sue to block Kroger-Albertsons supermarket merger

The Salt

The Federal Trade Commission and 9 states want to stop the deal that would combine the country's two largest grocery store chains. The companies say they have to merge to compete with Walmart. (Image credit: Rogelio V.

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How Paulie Gee’s Continues the Legacy of the Classic New York Slice Shop

EATER

Pizza maker Paul Giannone specializes in slices reminiscent of the ones he ate growing up in New York City. At Paulie Gee’s Slice Shop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the classic New York City pizza is king. “Pizza Cognition Theory states that the pizza you have first is the pizza that tastes best to you for the rest of your life,” says owner Paul Giannone, aka Paulie Gee.

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Why the Burgerim settlement exposes flaws in franchise oversight

Restaurant Business

The Bottom Line: The federal government allowed the chain’s founder to avoid major penalties by simply paying $1,000. What’s the point of regulation in the first place?

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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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CHEFS – REMEMBER, REFLECT, RELISH, AND SHARE

Culinary Cues

There was a time, maybe not too long ago, when you knew very little about food and cooking. There was an initial moment, maybe as a young guest in a restaurant, or possibly as a “first job” dishwasher, when the light bulb switched from off to on. It was a new taste, something exceptional, a surprise, or it may have been a moment when the busy breakfast cook pulled you from the dish machine to help set-up plates on the line – whatever it was – you woke up.

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On the union front, it's open season on Starbucks

Restaurant Business

Working Lunch: Starbucks Workers United is stepping up its courtship of the public as it looks ahead to contract negotiations.

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Wonder's newest location is inside a Walmart

Restaurant Business

The unit in Quakertown, Pa., is the first of up to four such outlets for the delivery-focused food hall concept.

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