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How to Improve Restaurant Operations: 9 Proven Strategies

7 Shifts

Every manager aims for maximum operational efficiency in their restaurants, but achieving this isn't easy, with the industry's success rate recorded at only 20%. Improving your restaurant operations to succeed in this highly competitive industry means serving quality food and providing excellent customer service while minimizing waste, reducing costs, and keeping your employees engaged.

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How to Save on Credit Card Processing Fees

Modern Restaurant Management

The past few years have been difficult for restaurants across the country as they have found themselves struggling to adjust to a new normal. Among the many pressures are rapidly rising credit card processing fees. Despite a recent settlement where the two largest card brands agreed to a modest cap of interchange fees for five years, processing fees show no signs of decreasing.

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How To Increase Restaurant Sales: 20 Proven Tips & Tactics

7 Shifts

The competition in the restaurant industry is getting tighter. In fact, 45% of restaurant operators expect their competition to be much more intense in 2024 than last year. This proves that any restaurant business owner who wants to survive in this economy should be open to trying unconventional sales strategies to attract customers and continue making a profit.

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Welcome to the Ultimate Okie Onion Burger Crawl

EATER

Double onion burger with cheese at Tucker’s. | Choate House One state, two days, four burger joints, and a whole lot of griddled onions As someone who grew up just a 15-minute drive across the border in Northeast Texas, I have done my fair share of s**t-talking about the state of Oklahoma: “The wind blows so hard in Texas because Oklahoma sucks,” and so on.

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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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Enhancing Guest Experience: The Vital Role of Restaurants in Hotels

Squirrel Systems

In the highly competitive hospitality industry, hotels strive to provide exceptional experiences that set them apart from their competitors. One crucial element that significantly enhances a guest’s stay is the quality of food and beverage service. Hotel restaurants not only offer convenience but also serve as an extension of the hotel’s brand, contributing to the overall guest experience.

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How Red Lobster plans to get back on its feet

Restaurant Business

As it heads for bankruptcy and a probable sale, the seafood restaurant chain laid out a turnaround strategy that includes tech upgrades and more “sensible” menu promotions.

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This little-known iPhone feature could change restaurant ordering

Restaurant Business

Tech Check: Almost every customer has a POS in their pocket. Can mini mobile apps get them to actually use it?

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THE CRAFT OF COOKING

Culinary Cues

Talent is a word that inspires some and scares away many more. The word artist falls into the same category. In both cases there is an assumption that you either have it or you don’t, that talent and artistic ability are somehow part of a person’s genetic code, or any attempt to strive for either without that genetic code is outside of possibility. So and so is talented or artistic and all others are simply observers.

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Preserving the Purity of Ice: Strategies for Combating Mold Contamination

Modern Restaurant Management

Ice plays an indispensable role in the restaurant industry. Not merely a frozen necessity, quality ice is the hallmark of an establishment's commitment to excellence, hygiene, and customer satisfaction. However, the omnipresent challenge that frequently undermines this commitment is the insidious infiltration of mold in ice machines. Understanding the mechanisms of mold incursion and implementing preventative measures is not just advisable—it is imperative.

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Restaurant Budgeting: How to Create A Restaurant Budget

7 Shifts

Managing a restaurant is not for the faint-hearted. The restaurant business is one of the most competitive industries, and this shows in the fact that only 20% of restaurants succeed in the market. Your stiff competition requires innovative thinking and aggressive growth strategies to stay on top. In this industry, one of the worst-case scenarios is running out of money.

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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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Fast-food restaurants are hit hardest as customers cut back

Restaurant Business

The giant food distributor Sysco said the consumer environment has been tougher on restaurants than expected this year due to higher menu prices.

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Rita’s Is My 26-Year-Old Ritual

EATER

Photo illustration by Lille Allen; see below for full credits Perfectly situated between water ice and custard, an order of chocolate gelati is the summer treat I never miss out on I’ve eaten no fewer than 26 orders of Rita’s gelati in my life, but almost certainly far more. I’ve had at least one each summer since the year I moved to this country, right into the heart of water ice territory (Pennsylvania).

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Minnesota restaurants will soon have to start disclosing total prices, service fees included

Restaurant Business

A law enacted this week bans hidden fees but allows restaurants to continue levying surcharges if customers get a heads-up and the money goes to employees.

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Palestinian chef Fadi Kattan offers a tour of Bethlehem in his new cookbook

The Salt

Bethlehem: A Celebration of Palestinian Food is a love letter to Kattan's boyhood home — and the scents and flavors that made it a special place to learn how to cook.

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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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Never mind Endless Shrimp. How about all the booze you can hold?

Restaurant Business

Restaurant Rewind: There was a time 50 years or so ago when the big come-on for a flurry of new restaurant chains was the promise of unlimited beer and wine. What could go wrong?

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Wendy's names Abigail Pringle U.S. president

Restaurant Business

The fast-food burger chain reconfigured its leadership team again, bringing back the U.S. president position 17 months after it was eliminated. E.J. Wunsch was named president of international.

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Fuzzy's Taco Shop to open 40 restaurants in Arizona and Texas

Restaurant Business

The development agreements represent a return to unit growth for the fast-casual Mexican chain under new owner Dine Brands, the parent of Applebee's and IHOP.

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Restaurant coalition sues to block broadened eligibility for overtime pay from taking effect July 1

Restaurant Business

Restaurant trade groups and other business organizations have filed the action in the same court that struck down a similar change in the rules in 2017.

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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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At Bonchon, bone-in is still boss, but a crispy chicken sandwich is coming

Restaurant Business

Americans are increasingly embracing Korean flavors, so it makes sense for the growing Bonchon to step into the crowded crispy chicken sandwich space.

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Menu trends that went to the max at the National Restaurant Show

Restaurant Business

The annual event is the place to showcase new ingredients, flavors and formats, and this year’s array didn’t disappoint.

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6 surprising plant-based standouts from the Restaurant Show

Restaurant Business

Reyna Estrada, the resident vegetarian editor on FoodService Director. identifies the meat-free dining trends on the Show floor.

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Organized labor blasts fast-food chains for employing inmates

Restaurant Business

Working Lunch: Unions say they want the practice stopped. But their real aim is to alienate the Black community.

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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5 pre-emerging restaurant brands ready for takeoff

Restaurant Business

These small concepts are still proving out their ideas, but each shows promise as a potential candidate for the next generation of emerging chains.

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