May, 2020

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How to Effectively Sanitize & Clean Your Restaurant

7 Shifts

Let’s face it—chefs are clean freaks. Who can blame them? There’s nothing better than a tidy workstation and clean range hood before service hour; and the post-shift scrub down of the kitchen can be a form of meditation for stressed out chefs. Chefs pride themselves on their sparkling kitchens, and during COVID-19, customers need more than ever to be reassured of the cleanliness and safety of ordering from your restaurant.

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How to Grow Your Catering Business

Goliath Consulting

by Bora Kang. Catering has grown significantly over the last few years thanks to the widespread demand for this one word: convenience. Whether they be for office parties, conferences, birthdays or weddings, catering profits from the promise of efficiency, safety and most importantly—safe of mind. But as consumer spending on catering grows, so does the competition.

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10 Inspirational Hospitality Industry Stories During COVID-19

Social Hospitality

Amidst the current COVID-19 pandemic, there is a lot of negativity online and in the news. The hospitality industry has been hit hard, and it can often be difficult to see silver linings in immense uncertainty and tragic circumstances. Nevertheless, some brands have demonstrated how to be good to their customers, associates, healthcare providers, and communities during this time.

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Restaurants Reopen: What Are They Doing?

Modern Restaurant Management

The pink and blue horse illustration at the top of this article is not clickbait. It’s an example of what Prague’s Manifesto Market is doing as part of its reopening operation. Manifesto uses the unit of a horse length to help people visualize social distancing and the market layout will increase gaps between the tables to meet the mandatory distance requirement. “We can tell Czech people are very disciplined and they have learnt the routine of how to protect themselves and oth

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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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Restaurant Reopening Checklist: Tips for Thriving

Restaurant365

As states and localities start to reopen, restauranteurs begin to prepare for transitioning from off-premise channels to reopening their dining rooms, albeit in a limited approach. This checklist is meant to provide you with the guidance you need to reopen safely and thrive in a post-COVID world. Enhancing your health and safety protocols. Most states have issued executive orders that provide specific requirements that must be followed in order to reopen dining rooms.

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Is It Safe to Eat at Restaurants Yet?

EATER

Tom Kelley Archive/Stringer/Getty; Xinzheng/Getty. Dining out right now will come with certain risks. Here’s what you can do to keep yourself and others around you safe. America is in the early stages of reopening. After weeks of stay-at-home orders, more than 30 states have allowed nonessential businesses to reopen. This means that thousands of restaurants, after pivoting to takeout or closing altogether, are now legally permitted to open their dining rooms to customers.

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5 Tactics to Implement Before Reopening Your Establishment

Sculpture Hospitality

With the news that some areas of the economy may be reopening (slowly and with caution), it allows us to finally see a way forward and consider the prospect of opening up our business’ again.

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A LETTER TO CULINARY SCHOOL GRADUATES

Culinary Cues

First and foremost – congratulations on earning your degree or certificate. This is an accomplishment that over the course of your lifetime will reward you tenfold. Know that the degree or certificate is more than an acknowledgement of the skills and knowledge that you have gained – it represents your level commitment and discipline that will serve you well.

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9 Important Hospitality Sales and Marketing Tips

Social Hospitality

In a world driven by social media and online search, sales tactics are essential to generate revenue. According to the data from the 2019 Travel and Hospitality Industry Outlook by Deloitte , industry growth is consistent throughout the past decade. From 2009 to 2017, gross bookings in U.S. hotels grew to $185 billion from $116 billion. That’s not just because people are traveling more.

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[New] Employee Health Check & Symptoms Screening for Restaurants

7 Shifts

The health and safety of staff & guests is the top concern for everyone working in hospitality today. As restaurants assess reopening timelines following COVID-19, it's important to be aware of and follow the latest restaurant health guidelines from the CDC to ensure a successful reopening and prevent community transmission. This means continuously monitoring and reporting on the health of all staff so you can take the appropriate action, and to build trust with your guests that their safety

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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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Why Your Website Is Slowing Down Business During COVID-19

Modern Restaurant Management

To say that the current COVID-19 crisis represents a major change to the way we live our lives is, at this point, probably a bit of an understatement. This is especially true in terms of how we do business, as the pandemic is already having a negative impact on restaurants in particular across the board. A lot of restaurants have seen sales decrease by as much as 70 percent in a lot of cases, with no end to the current situation in sight.

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Mother’s Day Drinks Bring Smiles

Sante

Blue Marble Marble-rita Credit-Blue Marble.png. Author(s): Deborah Grossman. Teaser: Mothers have favorites. Their favorite pie, perfume and presents. If they drink alcohol, they also have preferences. Here is a wrap up of diverse drinks that may please her during the quarantine. Every Mother has their special attributes. Unlike picking their favorite child, they will usually tell you straight up what drinks they prefer.

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Prepare to reopen: how to develop a restaurant menu

Typsy

There's no denying the impact of coronavirus on the industry - and for many venues, preparing to reopen and get your business back on track might necessitate a few changes. That includes your menu: whether you're an established venue or feel a little more fluid, you must have a strategy in place to make sure your menu says and does everything you need it to.

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OUR DAILY BREATH: PROBLEMS WITH THE CENTRALIZED FOOD SYSTEM

Culinary Cues

Every day there are lessons to be learned. At this level of crisis there are bound to be ancillary challenges that arise – challenges that were not obvious until the domino theory took hold. The farm to table movement of the past two decades was, on the surface, a return to supporting local growers and producers, but the core of this initiative was far more significant.

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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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Giving Your Business a Restaurant Prime Cost Tune-Up

Restaurant365

The economy may be in flux right now, but as restrictions start to lift and limited dine-in is allowed in most states, restaurants are at a critical juncture. Over the past few months, reporting may have taken a back seat to more pressing concerns. However, as the restaurant industry and your business move to a new normal, returning to tracking and controlling costs is more important than ever.

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Two Independent Restaurateurs Share Reopening Lessons Learned

Hot Schedules

Blog. Reopening Lessons from Two Independent Restaurateurs. How the COVID pandemic forced them to update operations, sanitation, communication and much more. R ecently, we were fortunate enough to be able to sit down to a virtual chat with two independent restaurant owners who are trying to navigate the re-opening process in the world of COVID. David Cash, owner of Dallas-based Smoky Rose and Dan Fugman, owner of Denver-based Max Gill and Grill, shared their experiences and how they are preparin

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Toes in the Water: Transitioning to Reopen

Modern Restaurant Management

With more states lifting sanctions on dine-in options, Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine reached out to Yelp's Small Business Expert Emily Washcovick to learn about ways restaurants can successfully make the transition and slowly ramp up operations, while keeping guest and staff safety top of mind. What are the best steps a restaurateur needs to take to make a reopening successful?

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Employee Turnover Explained: What It Is And How To Manage It

Sling

Employee turnover is an invisible issue that most managers tend to neglect. But if you want your business to succeed, you need to understand employee turnover and be able to manage it for the better. Because this is often easier said than done, the talent-management experts at Sling have created this article to introduce you to the concept of employee turnover and give you tips for decreasing it in your business.

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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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Trending: the best coronavirus responses from hotels around the world

Typsy

Under coronavirus, everything about the function, service, message and meaning of hotels has changed. If restrictions have been lifted in your area and you’re looking at reopening your hotel, or resuming normal operations, there’s a lot to consider. Luckily, there are a few hotels leading by example in this arena. In today’s blog post, we’re looking at some of the best reopening strategies and approaches from hotels around the world.

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Stuffed French Toast Recipe

Bottleneck Management

Baileys Stuffed French Toast Recipe. We’ve been asked to share our Baileys Stuffed French Toast recipe, one of our most coveted and indulgent Rock n Roll Brunch items (aptly named Sweet Child O’ Mine on that menu). We’re happy to share, but we’ll warn you right off the bat, you’ll need an electric mixer and a home fryer to produce this dish. If you’re anything like me, you’d easily pass on the idea of buying and preparing all of this at home and gladly head to City Works or Old Town Pour H

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Controlling Costs and Returning to Restaurant Profitability

Restaurant365

Making smart, effective decisions around your food and labor costs as you continue with take-out and delivery options and begin to open your dining room can help you emerge from the economic shutdown with improved processes on a path to profitability. For example, your daily sales numbers show you which menu items are the most profitable and popular as well as the times when the most orders are placed.

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3 Reasons Why You Need a Pandemic Preparedness Plan for Your Restaurant

Focus POS

The world is different today than it was even three months ago. The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the foundation of our way of life. Each facet of the economy has been forced to adapt to the new demands placed on businesses and consumers. The accompanying guidelines and restrictions have heavily impacted the way restaurants are able to do business. .

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Maximize Restaurant Profitability: 5 Key Strategies to Control Costs Effectively

Running a profitable restaurant requires more than great food and service. Our guide breaks down five actionable strategies to help you control costs and maximize profitability. Learn how to track and reduce food waste, optimize labor costs with smart scheduling, make data-driven decisions with regular P&L reviews, and manage fixed and variable costs efficiently.

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How Restaurants Can Hire and Rehire Quickly During COVID-19

Modern Restaurant Management

My first business was running a Thai restaurant while in college with a couple of friends, so seeing how hard the restaurant industry has been hit by COVID-19 recently hits close to home. I know how hard it is to stay in business, how slim the margins are, and especially how difficult it is to hire and take care of the employees that keeps the business alive.

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RATE Your Advertising Campaign

Indoor Media

Great advertising can make you feel on top of the world! A successful advertising investment should return 4-5 times your initial investment and drive increased business from both new and existing customers. Unfortunately, not every advertising campaign is created equally. Sometimes, you make an investment and never see that money again. While you can’t predict the future, we’ve devised a way to easily RATE advertising mediums to determine if you are following best practices to protect your inve

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Alison Roman, Bon Appétit, and the Global Pantry Problem

EATER

In this, the age of the global pantry, ingredients like turmeric, tahini, and gochujang have finally shaken off their hitherto “exotic” status. But it’s white cooking personalities like Alison Roman and many of the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen stars who have had viral success using them. Alison Roman is the “ prom queen of the pandemic.” Or, at least, she was.

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Chambers Wine

A Wine Story

Spotlight on Chambers Wine. Chambers Wine Illustration. If you love discovering limited-production wines from classic Old World regions, Chambers Street Wines warrants a closer look. Often shortened to Chambers Wine, this old street wine shop focuses on European wines from small, mostly family owned wineries. Lillie Wolff 2001: The Beginning Chambers Wine and Spirits.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Optimizing Your Restaurant Staffing and Onboarding for a Successful Recovery

Restaurant365

Understanding how to schedule and engage your staff is one of the most essential aspects of being a successful restaurant owner or operator. While the pandemic has impacted restaurants of all sizes over the past few months, the need to effectively manage and engage your staff has never been more pertinent in ensuring your restaurant’s continued viability.

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Hospitality after coronavirus: reopening requirements you need to know

Typsy

After a long period of take-away only mandates on food service venues, the COVID-19 curve is finally flattening and the hospitality engine is starting up again. But that doesn’t mean we’re quite out of the woods yet – restaurants, cafes, bars, pubs, and hotels will likely still need to adhere to certain regulations and requirements for some time. It might sound like a daunting prospect to make sure your reopen is COVID-compliant – but never fear.

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Three Ways for Restaurants to Boost Digital Customer Experiences Now

Modern Restaurant Management

Because food trends come and go, customer taste buds and preferences change, and technology adds new wrinkles to processes like ordering and supply chain management, the restaurant space is constantly evolving — but no one could have predicted the event that would have the biggest impact on modern restaurants since, well, maybe ever: a pandemic.

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3 Things to Look For in a Grocery Store Advertising Partner

Indoor Media

Due to COVID-19, grocery stores are experiencing enormous increases in the volume of shoppers. At the same time, businesses are looking for new ways to reach the people in their community. Grocery store advertising has and continues to be, a proven way for small businesses to drive profits. As with any investment, it’s important to make sure that your partner’s ability to deliver is as proven as the method itself.

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Pricing for Profit: How to Set, Negotiate, and Succeed

Speaker: Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader

In today’s competitive market, pricing is more than just a number — it’s the cornerstone of profitability. The right pricing strategy ensures that you capture the true value of your offering, paving the way for sustainable growth and long-term success. Join Igli Laci, Strategic Finance Leader, in this exclusive session where he will explore how a well-crafted pricing approach balances customer perception with business objectives, creating a powerful tool for securing both competitive advantage a