Squirrel Systems

JUNE 24, 2024

Running a restaurant is a complex task that requires balancing numerous priorities to ensure success. Here are the top five priorities for restaurant operators and practical strategies to address them: 1. Ensuring Consistent Food Quality Priority: Delivering high-quality food consistently is paramount. This involves sourcing fresh ingredients, maintaining proper kitchen procedures, and ensuring dishes meet the expected standards every time they are served.

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Operations Loyalty Program Kitchen Safety Food Safety 52

The Rail

JUNE 24, 2024

When running a bar, finding the right storage solutions for your seasonal bar supplies is essential, especially for bars in more tropical climates. Efficient storage ensures that your supplies are well-organized, easy to access, and in optimal condition. Let's explore the top storage solutions for seasonal bar, helping you maintain a smooth operation throughout the year.

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Supplies Bar Mobile Ordering Inventory 40

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2024

Diners should expect to be delighted by modernized comfort food and low-waste menus, according to Unilever Food Solutions’ Future Menus Top North America Trends 2024 report. It also acts as a recipe guide with solutions to industry-wide challenges, from cost-saving initiatives that ease labor shortages to recipes backed by forward-thinking trends.

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Seasonal Menu 2024 Social Media Waste 88

Restaurant Business

JUNE 24, 2024

The sports bar chain abruptly shut its doors in parts of Texas, Florida, Kentucky and Virginia. A local media outlet put the total number of closures at 40.

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Advertiser: Paycor

Employees want meaningful feedback. Without it, 98% disengage from their work (Zippia). But do your managers know how to support them? Use this Quick Start Guide to get the conversation started. Your workers don’t just want jobs; they want careers. Invest in your team by giving them meaningful feedback. 65% of employees want more feedback (Zippia). Workers who get daily feedback are 3x more engaged (Clear Company).

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SpotOn

JUNE 24, 2024

Restaurants are Ashley Bresette’s happy, comfy place—even when she’s on hour 10 of an install, climbing underneath a dirty bar to untangle a complicated mess of cables. “As long as the technology setup looks good in the end. My jeans can always get washed,” Ashley reasons.  Since her first summer job scooping ice cream at 15, Ashley has felt most at home in restaurant jobs (no matter the impact on her denim).

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Technology Customer Service Bar Hospitality 52

Restaurant Business

JUNE 24, 2024

River Subs LLC, a large operator out of San Antonio is seeking Chapter 11 debt protection after losing a nearly $3 million judgment in a wrongful death lawsuit.

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Operations 122

Restaurant Business

JUNE 24, 2024

The Bottom Line: Same-store sales have slowed markedly for the past year as customers shifted to other options. And now operators are furiously working to get them back.

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Operations 85

EATER

JUNE 24, 2024

Larderia Mafalda is one of the oldest lardo producers in Colonnata, Italy Larderia Mafalda makes one product and makes it very well. “We are the oldest lardo producer in Colonnata — since 1930,” says Carlo Danesi, director of production at Larderia Mafalda in Colonnata, Italy. “So we feel that we are really good at this product.” Lardo is a type of salume made by curing strips of pig meat in salt, rosemary, and a mix of 20 approved spices.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 24, 2024

The Bottom Line: The food-and-games concept Chicago WhirlyBall filed for bankruptcy last week as companies like Dave & Buster’s and TopGolf show sales weakness.

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Food 128

Modern Restaurant Management

JUNE 24, 2024

The Freelance Isn’t Free Act (FIFA) represents a significant shift in labor law, providing new protections for freelance workers across New York state. Although initially intended to take effect on May 20, that has been postponed until August 28. This law requires written contracts for freelance engagements worth $800 or more or lasting longer than 120 days.

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Restaurant Law Audits Hiring Website Management 88

Advertiser: Paycor

There’s a new overtime salary threshold that will impact employers across the country. If you have an employee making less than $43,888 on July 1 or less than $58,656 on January 1, you’re going to have to start paying overtime. Download Paycor’s guide to learn: Which groups of employees are affected? How should you classify employees? Best ways to mitigate risk.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 24, 2024

Kitchens would need to be cooled down whenever the temperature hits 87 degrees. Breaks, "cool-down areas" and water would also have to be provided.

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Planet Grape

JUNE 24, 2024

The post 2023 Mother Vine Rose High Valley Lake County appeared first on planet grape® wine review.

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2023 60

Restaurant Business

JUNE 24, 2024

The drive-in chain is a longtime beverage destination, but the category has gotten increasingly competitive with new players and expanded drink selections on menus.

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Beverage Innovation 98

EATER

JUNE 24, 2024

FX “It’s crazy” When the finale of The Bear ’s second season aired last June, one of the hottest topics surrounding the show wasn’t actually a plot point. While viewers wondered if Carmine “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), the series’ emotionally tortured star chef, would ever get out of that walk-in refrigerator, the series’s most dedicated fanatics turned their attention to an even more pressing question: Would Carmy and his sous chef Sydney Adamu (Ayo Edebiri) end up falling in love?

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Book Management Management 109

Advertiser: Paycor

There’s a new overtime salary threshold that will impact employers across the country. If you have an employee making less than $43,888 on July 1 or less than $58,656 on January 1, you’re going to have to start paying overtime. Download Paycor’s guide to learn: Which groups of employees are affected? How should you classify employees? Best ways to mitigate risk.

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Restaurant Business

JUNE 24, 2024

Working Lunch: The effort may be more of a feint, but it's a visible test of the pro-labor party's true commitment to boosting worker

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EATER

JUNE 24, 2024

Beck Deresse After going on hormone replacement therapies, my taste began to change — but that effect wasn’t purely biological On my last trip to the Burbank Costco, I felt like I finally perfected my optimum shopping route. First, the personal care section for Kirkland-brand minoxidil, then a pallet of Diet Coke; last, a quick weave through the snack aisles in search of a 30-pack of “snacking nuts,” individually portioned packages of salted peanuts, cashews, and almonds.

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