Wed.Mar 19, 2025

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Is Your Restaurant Ready for RRP Success?

Wasserstrom

For restaurants, the leap to retail-ready products (RRPs) bottled sauces, frozen entrees, pre-packaged desserts is a chance to leverage brand equity and culinary prowess in a whole new market. But navigating this transition demands more than a catchy label; it requires a laser-focused assessment of readiness and a strategic deployment of resources.

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Scaling Success: How to Leverage a POS System for Restaurant Expansion

Modern Restaurant Management

Every restaurant owner is familiar with a POS system and knows how essential a strong system is to every aspect of restaurant operations and management. However, for restaurant owners looking to expand their operations, a POS system can help reduce some of the stress and questions associated with doing so. A strong POS system can streamline operations, inventory and menu management, assist with staffing shortages and scheduling conflicts, as well as assist with sorting through data and sales pat

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Why Takeout Is the Key to Restaurant Success (And How to Use It to Build Customer Loyalty)

ChowNow

Takeout now plays a bigger role in restaurant operations than ever before. With 52% of diners saying that ordering takeout is essential to their lifestyle, its no longer just an optionits an opportunity. But getting customers to order once isnt enough. Repeat business is what drives real growth, yet many restaurants struggle to keep takeout diners coming back.

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Maggiano's begins a turnaround, with Chili's playbook in hand

Restaurant Business

The Italian casual-dining chain is taking cues from its soaring sister concept as it looks to return to traffic growth.

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Future-Proof Your Talent Pipeline

Get ready for the future of business. As HR navigates an ongoing labor shortage, leaders need stronger, more adaptable recruiting strategies. Do you have the tools you need to build a talent pipeline that drives sustainable business growth?

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Smeg’s Dreamy Kitchen Appliances Are Up to 42% Off Right Now

EATER

The Italian it brand of status toasters, blenders, and beyond is majorly on sale over at SSENSE Italian appliance brand Smeg makes the kind of toasters, blenders, and other countertop wonders that immediately catch ones eye, with their sleek, retro-modern design, saturated colors, and prominent lettering. But its also the brands bougie reputation for high-quality, high-performing, design-forward kitchenware that lands its products in the kitchens of Architectural Digest home tours, Chateau Marmo

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The pandemic brought full-service restaurants to a crossroads

Restaurant Business

Widespread dining room closures forced sit-down operators to embrace convenience. But consumers still want an experience too.

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Pandemic Voices: Alex Smith, CEO of Atlas Restaurant Group

Restaurant Business

How one multi-concept independent restaurant group nearly doubled in size in the five years since the pandemic.

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Using Wine in Sauces, Marinades, and Reductions

Chef's Resources

March 19, 2025 Beyond the Glass: Using Wine in Sauces, Marinades, and Reductions Wines use in sauces, marinades, and reductions may seem like a given, but some nuanced techniques and considerations separate great dishes from merely good ones. While traditions dictate some tastes, flavor pairings, and profiles, cooking trends are shifting, influencing the approach to […] The post Using Wine in Sauces, Marinades, and Reductions appeared first on Chefs Resources.

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The chicken chains just keep coming

Restaurant Business

Buzzworthy Brands: This new weekly column about emerging chains won't only be about chicken concepts. But there's no avoiding the fact that everyone wants a piece of the poultry craze.

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Why Is Everything Butter Yellow Right Now?

EATER

Eater Staff / Getty Images From Timothe Chalamets red carpet fit to KitchenAids new mixer, the world is melting for this cheerful, comforting color Every year, Pantone asks us to accept a new Color of the Year into our hearts. For 2025, we were given Mocha Mousse but Im not yet ready to kiss the ring of the understated earth tone. Theres been some serious competition from butter yellow, that cheerful color that resembles the shade of a stick of Kerrygold, and seems, far more than Mocha Mousse,

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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The restaurant labor landscape has vastly improved since the pandemic

Restaurant Business

After a tumultuous five years, recruitment and retention is back to pre-COVID rates. But labor costs are more than 30% higher, and employers are still struggling to make the math work.

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‘Our People Are Hungry’: What Federal Food Aid Cuts Mean in a Warming World

EATER

A local resident handles a cardboard box packed with fresh produce and other groceries that have become prohibitively expensive in the region for many. | Appalachian Sustainable Development The USDAs decision to cut $1 billion worth of food aid is causing layoffs, supply shortfalls, and the end of donations at charitable groups across the country all as hunger continues to climb Ayurella Horn-Muller is a staff writer at Grist.

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Restaurant catering is back, but it looks different post-COVID

Restaurant Business

The pandemic put the kibosh on office and social catering, but pivots made back then are strengthening the business today.

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Why the Ben & Jerry’s and Unilever Relationship Is Melting Down

EATER

The ice cream brand is known for its activism. | Wikimedia Commons The outspoken ice cream company continues its legal fight with its parent company Ben & Jerrys, the outspokenly political Vermont-based ice cream company, is now accusing its parent company Unilever, with whom it has had an increasingly contentious relationship, of ousting its CEO David Stever.

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10 HR Metrics for 2025: HR Data Toolkit

The right HR metrics can illuminate hidden trends, justify decisions to the C-suite, and give you an edge in this unpredictable economy. Download Paycor’s guide and learn how to calculate your: Cost-per-Hire Total Financial Impact of Absences Voluntary Turnover Rate And more!

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How the COVID pandemic has changed the restaurant industry

Restaurant Business

A Deeper Dive: Consumer strategist Lisa Miller joins the restaurant finance podcast to discuss the impact the pandemic has had on restaurants and consumers, and how to win in that environment.

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U.S. restaurant chains should pay close attention to Asian upstarts

Restaurant Business

The Bottom Line: While rapidly growing Mixue and Luckin Coffee have a long way to go before they surpass the biggest U.S. restaurant chains on a sales basis, their models should serve as a wake-up call.

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Pei Wei expands its pantry to launch lighter, protein-focused dishes

Restaurant Business

Behind the Menu: The new items target healthy lifestyles, providing balance to the fast casuals more indulgent Asian classics.