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The Best Ways to Use Quince in Home Cooking

EATER

Lille Allen/Eater Whether its poached, baked in a tart, or cooked into jam, quince can shine in both sweet and savory dishes If you have ever tried membrillo the dense Spanish jam often paired with Manchego on a nice cheese plate, maybe with a handful of Marcona almonds and a glass of Tempranillo you know the sweet, slightly floral flavor of quince.

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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry experts for their views on what trends and challenges owners and operators can expect to see in 2025. For the first part, click here and for the second part, click here. Data, Data, Data. It is atop the list for restaurants looking to modernize, differentiate, and elevate experiences.

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KFC Is Betting Big on Chicken Tenders

EATER

Its tendie time. | KFC/Saucy KFCs new restaurant, Saucy, is focused on tenders and dips. Its what the people want. Meet Saucy implores the press release, at once an unnerving invitation and a pretty good pun. On Monday, December 23, KFC is launching a new restaurant concept in Orlando, Florida, centered around the chicken tender and everything in which you can dip it.

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2024 was a painful year for full-service restaurants

Restaurant Business

Many sit-down chains struggled. There were bankruptcies, closures and plenty of soul-searching. But there were some clear winners, too.

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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How to Capture AI’s Attention & Increase Your Restaurant’s Online Visibility

Wasserstrom

Large Language Models (LLMs) like Gemini AI — Google’s latest language model — are changing how people discover and navigate local businesses like restaurants. To maximize their visibility and catch AI’s attention, restaurants must optimize their digital presence for multimodal analysis, the cornerstone of Gemini’s recommendation engine.

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Fast casuals had a terrific 2024. Except for those that didn't

Restaurant Business

Wingstop, Cava and Raising Cane's beat all odds, and others had a pretty great year, despite road bumps. But for a few, it was pretty rough.

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Restaurant Industry in Review: November 2024 Restaurant Trends

Black Box Intelligence

Out of the Box: Monthly Restaurant Industry Update Restaurant Industry in Review: November 2024 Restaurant Trends NOVEMBER: BY THE NUMBERS 0.5% Comp Sales -2.5% Comp Traffic Best Region: New England Best Segment: Quick Service Best Cuisine: Chicken Worst Region: NY-NJ Worst Segment: Fine Dining Worst Cuisine: Sandwich November 2024 brought a surprising wave of strong performance for the restaurant industry.

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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul Signs Law Making the Restaurant Reservation Black Market Illegal

EATER

The Restaurant Reservation Anti-Piracy Act first passed this summer

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Here's what restaurants really want this holiday

Restaurant Business

These arent the easiest of times. How about a fast forward on some of the new realities?

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Twin Cities Restaurant and Bar Workers Are Serving as ‘First Responders’ Amid the Opioid Crisis

EATER

Restaurans and bars in Minneapolis and St. Paul are responding to the intensifying opioid crisis by carrying naloxone, Narcan, and fentanyl test strips to support harm reduction.

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2025 Payroll Calendar Templates (Biweekly, Semi-Monthly, and Monthly)

Use these handy calendar templates to stay on top of payroll in 2025! Download them today to share with your HR team or post for employees. Whether your company has biweekly, semi-monthly, or monthly pay periods, Paycor has you covered. Get your templates today!

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The 10 biggest stories of 2024

Restaurant Business

In a recessionary year for restaurants, stories of bankruptcies and sales challenges dominated the headlines. But some brands did pretty well.

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How to Host a Holiday Cookie Swap, According to an Expert 

EATER

Shutterstock Holiday cookie swaps are an art form. Heres everything you need to know to host a good one. Tis the season for lots of things hot cocoa, gift shopping, and perhaps most importantly, cookie swaps. These annual exchanges of delicious baked goods have become increasingly popular in recent years, and maybe youve been invited to one but arent exactly a great baker.

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6 menu trends that rocked restaurants in 2024

Restaurant Business

We heard a lot about swicy and cheese pulls, but what else was trending both inside and outside restaurants walls?

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Here’s What You Missed on DrinkTok

EATER

The defining cocktails and drink trends of TikTok in 2024 included souffl Espresso Martinis, the Batanga, Guinness and more.

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Why (and How) to Switch to a New HR & Payroll Platform

Speaker: Speakers:

HR and payroll impact every aspect of your business. Choosing the right provider is one of the most important decisions you’ll make. Before you decide, hear first-hand customer accounts in Paycor’s webinar to learn: The three most important things to look for when switching. How to begin your search. What are some of the red flags?

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DoorDash and Wing launch drone delivery at Dallas-area malls

Restaurant Business

The delivery app will integrate with Alphabets drone service to deliver items from more than 50 restaurants and retailers at two malls owned by Brookfield Properties.

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Elevating the Beverage Industry with Evergreen

Evergreen

The beverage industry thrives on access to accurate, actionable data. Evergreen equips professionals across the sectordistributors, marketers, and retailerswith tools and a database to excel. Heres how. A Resource for Distributors Retailers and distributors alike rely on precise data to navigate a complex market. Evergreen provides up-to-date ABVs, IBUs, producer details, and specifications, simplifying negotiations.

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Breakout products of the year on restaurant chain menus

Restaurant Business

New items and limited-time offers flooded restaurant menus in 2024, but these winners surged to the top in more ways than one.

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Christmas Tamales by the Dozen, the Hundreds, the Tens of Thousands

EATER

Tamales at the California-based Vallarta Supermarkets chain. | Vallarta Supermarkets For Mexican restaurants and supermarkets, the holidays mean one thing: Tamal season is here It wasnt until I moved to New York City for college that I realized how much I took the tamales of my childhood holidays for granted. A born-and-raised Southern Californian with a big Mexican American family, I had never known a Christmas without a pile of corn husk-wrapped tamales waiting next to a honey ham and the half

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

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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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A weak year for restaurant acquisitions, except for Blackstone

Restaurant Business

The private-equity group, with the years two biggest deals for Jersey Mikes and Tropical Smoothie, saved what was mostly a year full of bargain-basement deals and bankruptcy sales.

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The Year Charli XCX Gave Us New Language for Understanding Martha Versus Ina

EATER

Was it just a coincidence that both Martha Stewart and Ina Garten had big releases this year? | Lille Allen Are Martha Stewart and Ina Garten still friends? Girl, its so confusing sometimes! In Ina Gartens new memoir, Be Ready When the Luck Happens , she recounts her first attempt at filming a cooking show, overseen by Martha Stewarts television production company and seemingly encouraged by Stewart herself: Martha and I had been friends for several years, and I was writing a column for her maga

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6 anvils likely to dangle over restaurateurs' heads in 2025

Restaurant Business

Everyone has a conviction about whats ahead for the industry in the New Year. But its the uncertaintiesthe what-ifsthat should be top of mind.

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2025’s Hottest Restaurant Industry Predictions

The Rail

NEXT YEARS HOTTEST POTENTIAL INDUSTRY DIRECTIONS Every year we project what you can expect from the renewal of a new year. This year promises to deliver several important trend lines that will fundamentally change how the restaurant industry progresses for the foreseeable future. From the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) to the explosive growth of the sports-themed segment, the near future will reveal changes in the way operators function and direct their business model.

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HR’s Complete 2025 Calendar of Important Dates

HR leaders can use this calendar from Paycor to track important HR and payroll tax dates. The 2025 calendar includes: Tax filing dates Federal reporting deadlines Bank holidays Links to relevant tax forms …and more! Get your 2025 HR calendar today!

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The biggest restaurant tech stories of 2024

Restaurant Business

AI, kiosks and delivery apps were the big winners. Loyalty programs and dynamic pricing had a weird year.

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In 2024, restaurant chain bankruptcies dominated the news

Restaurant Business

Red Lobster and TGI Fridays led a year in which chains both big and small clogged bankruptcy courts. Here is a look at the years biggest bankruptcy filings.

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Here are the luminaries restaurants lost in 2024

Restaurant Business

The year brought the deaths of such industry standouts as David Bouley, Walt Ehmer, Solomon Choi and Jasper White.

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KFC puts chicken tenders and drinks forward with new Saucy concept

Restaurant Business

Parent Yum Brands is spinning off its Original Recipe tenders with a format designed to capitalize on consumer love for dipping and creative beverages.

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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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Why consumers turned away from fast-food restaurants in 2024

Restaurant Business

A Deeper Dive: This weeks episode features some of the best content from the year, focusing on discussions about traffic challenges that dominated the news for much of the year.

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Union struggle spills into Starbucks headquarters

Restaurant Business

Reality Check: Starbucks Workers United has organized the home office's store. And now it looks as if an actual strike may be coming.

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Another big brand takes a stab at creating a secondary concept

Restaurant Business

The Bottom Line: KFC is joining Taco Bell and McDonalds in creating a new brand. But such moves are risky, especially when the primary brand is struggling.

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The 2024 restaurant vocabulary words that gave us the ick

Restaurant Business

From swicy to servant leader, heres some of the industry jargon we hope not to see in 2025.

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2025 Payroll Calendar Templates (Biweekly, Semi-Monthly, and Monthly)

Use these handy calendar templates to stay on top of payroll in 2025! Download them today to share with your HR team or post for employees. Whether your company has biweekly, semi-monthly, or monthly pay periods, Paycor has you covered. Get your templates today!