SpotOn
OCTOBER 28, 2024
You've worked hard to get guests through the door. But the work doesn't stop there. While bars sell alcoholic drinks, a high-margin menu item, crafting a profitable bar menu is paramount. Through menu engineering and reporting from your bar POS system , you can determine what's selling and what's not. Next, it's time for a menu refresh.
7 Shifts
OCTOBER 28, 2024
A bar is a profitable business option if you’re looking to enter the food industry. However, understanding how to calculate and improve your bar's profit margin is key to long-term success. One key area to focus on is drink sales, with cocktail sales accounting for about 23% of a bar's revenue. It just goes to show how important drink pricing and cost management are to maximizing profits.
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Bottleneck Management
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Sandwich and Beer Pairings Few things are as satisfying as a sandwich paired with just the right beer. We reached out to some top breweries, and they came back with spot-on pairings. Whether you’re craving bold flavors or something more balanced, these combos will hit the spot in all the right ways. Let’s find your new favorite duo. Son of Juice & Egg Salad Sandwich Maplewood Brewery’s Special Projects Manager Adam Smith knows a thing or two about balancing flavors.
7 Shifts
OCTOBER 28, 2024
As a restaurant owner, it's easy to pour money into advertising and promotions without knowing how much it’s really costing your business. However, it’s best to understand how cost-effective your current customer acquisition efforts are before dedicating resources to it. Knowing how to calculate and optimize your customer acquisition cost (CAC) can help you make smarter decisions about your marketing and advertising strategies.
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Modern Restaurant Management
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The restaurant industry isn’t just evolving – it’s reinventing itself in real-time. Digital transformation has completely reshaped how we serve customers and empower employees, but the stakes are higher than ever. From personalized customer experiences to unlocking operational efficiencies, technology is the fuel driving the next era of restaurant success.
Thrive POS
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Halloween is one of the busiest nights of the year for pizza shops. With trick-or-treating, costume parties, and haunted gatherings, people are too busy—or maybe too spooked—to cook dinner. Instead, they’re reaching for their phones and ordering in. This is where you can shine—like the jack-o'-lantern grinning on your porch—with smart strategies that turn ghostly revelers into loyal pizza fans.
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The Salt
OCTOBER 28, 2024
A London distributor says thieves posing as a French client stole some $389,000 worth of cheddar. The tight-knit U.K. cheese community is on high alert — and asking people to help sniff out the goods.
Restaurant Business
OCTOBER 28, 2024
It’s a major hire for the fast-growing food hall/delivery chain, which has ambitions of becoming the Amazon of food.
EATER
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Shutterstock From Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups to candy corn, here’s how far past Halloween you can enjoy the fruits of all that trick-or-treating labor The spookiest time of year is upon us, and with it comes piles of chocolates, chews, caramels, nougats, crunches, bars, and patties. Estimates from the National Retail Federation suggest Americans will spend close to $3.5 billion on candy during Halloween 2024, with an additional $3.8 billion on costumes and $3.8 billion on decorations.
Restaurant Technology Guys
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Welcome back to the Restaurant Technology Guys podcast blog! We recently had the pleasure of talking with Keith Sampson, a serial entrepreneur and dynamic speaker with a passion for helping others reach their full potential. During our conversation, we explored Keith’s professional journey, his profound personal insights, and his impactful philosophy on life and business.
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Restaurant Business
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The casual-dining chain’s payment activity has been volatile this year, Creditsafe found, setting the stage for a possible bankruptcy.
EATER
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Lille Allen Bubble, bubble, braise, and simmer; we found the best dutch ovens for every type of witches brew The cauldron of the kitchen, a good Dutch oven is the best vessel for conjuring all sorts of practical magic (read: soup). Designed for maximum heat retention and long, slow cooking, a Dutch oven is a versatile kitchen essential for the stove-top and oven.
Restaurant Business
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The Bottom Line: The coffee shop chain’s new CEO has several ideas for the company, released in multiple formats, including changes to marketing and the menu.
EATER
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Photo illustration by Lille Allen; see below for full credits What better way to use up leftover rice than by putting it in a pepper and covering it with cheese? Leftover rice is one ingredient I always have sitting in my fridge. If there’s a lot, I gently steam it to reheat or turn it into fried rice. But when there’s only a little, things can actually get more interesting.
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Restaurant Business
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The struggling casual-dining chain has now closed about 100 locations this year amid a host of challenges.
EATER
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Exploring old-school candy shops and a new wave of candy entrepreneurs in New York, fueled by TikTok
Evergreen
OCTOBER 28, 2024
In today’s world, a print menu is so much more than a list of food and drink options. It’s a statement. A well-designed menu is the voice of a business, offering a glimpse into the atmosphere, quality, and style a customer can expect.
The Salt
OCTOBER 28, 2024
What's your favorite apple? Maybe it's the crowd-pleasing Honeycrisp, the tart Granny Smith or the infamous Red Delicious. Either way, before that apple made it to your local grocery store or orchard it had to be invented — by a scientist. So today, we're going straight to the source: Talking to an apple breeder. Producer Hannah Chinn reports how apples are selected, bred, grown. and the discoveries that could change that process.
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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.
EATER
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Agua Mágica wants to change how mezcal production is valued It takes seven or eight years for an espadín agave plant to mature to the point at which Rogelio Juan Hernández, maestro mezcalero and co-founder of Agua Mágica , can use it to make mezcal. For four generations, his family has made mezcal in the region of San Juan del Río in Oaxaca, Mexico.
The Salt
OCTOBER 28, 2024
NPR talks with Jose Ralat, the taco editor at Texas Monthly , about the best tacos in the state.
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