July, 2021

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THE RETURN OF THE LINE COOK

Culinary Cues

Look around – they’re slowly, but surely coming back. You know – the individuals who found their mission as a cook – they have been tucked away since March of 2020 waiting for an opportunity to open that knife roll bag, draw their essential tools across that water stone and hone the edges on a steel and counting the days when they could once again find the rhythm of the line.

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Why Truth in Advertising Matters

Indoor Media

Truth in advertising is of crucial importance. You’ve likely heard people talk about it before — it’s common sense. If a customer sees an ad that suggests your business has a special “half-off all food during happy hour” deal, and then they come to your restaurant and find that the deal only applies to french fries…they’re not going to be too happy, and they probably won’t come back to your business.

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New Age Recruitment Marketing Channels for Today’s Competitive Restaurant Hires

Modern Restaurant Management

In today’s tight job market, to be competitive and stay top of mind of potential hires, it’s important to launch a holistic recruitment marketing strategy to support basic recruiting functions. The talent acquisition funnel starts with building awareness, driving consideration, then interest before moving into traditional recruitment steps of application, interview selection, and hiring.

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How to Open a Coffee Shop: The Ultimate Guide

7 Shifts

So you want to open up your very own coffee shop. We're all here for it! Coffee shops can be so much more than a place to grab a cup of joe and a croissant. They are places where friends and family gather, where ideas are formed and spread, and where important work gets done. At their best, they're an essential part of their community—a third place beyond work and the home.

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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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3 Tips to Write an SEO Plan for Your Restaurant’s Website

Next Restaurants

By Nancy Howard, Contributor. As a restaurant business owner, it is sometimes difficult to juggle operating and marketing your restaurant all at once. Indeed, there needs to be some kind of balance between the effort you invest into your restaurant on a daily basis and the energy you spend on promoting this restaurant. Luckily, even beginners can easily get started with digital marketing by following a tried and true set of best practices that are used by so many others to great success.

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Mitigating Cost Price Inflation Via Supplier Management

Hot Schedules

Blog. Mitigating Cost Price Inflation Via Supplier Management. T echnology alone can’t affect the causes of cost price inflation. Hospitality systems can’t undo labor legislation, failed harvests or political turmoil, and with hotels in urban markets still seeing revenues dip as much as 52 percent compared to 2019, operators need to utilize every possible method to cut costs.

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5 Effective Ways to Increase Profit Margins at Your Restaurant

Cheetah

Reading Time: 5 minutes. The pandemic has exacerbated the restaurant labor crisis and there is only one way out – offering staff higher wages and improving benefits. To achieve this while still staying in the black, restaurants need to significantly increase profit margins, but how? In our last article we explored adding auto-gratuity to the bill and sharing tips with BOH staff.

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Ambient Tech Is The Future of Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurant technology adoption has accelerated throughout the pandemic, shifting digital tools from futuristic nice-to-haves into critical components of day-to-day operations. Adopting in-house technologies became necessary for restaurants to stay open throughout the pandemic, restart operations after temporary closures, and pivot services to maintain revenue while still following enhanced health and safety protocols.

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How to Improve Team Communication with Restaurant Staff and Management

7 Shifts

You would think something as second nature to people as communication would be easy to manage in the workplace. After all, there are so many more pressing problems that need to be dealt with. Maybe one of your servers just called in sick at the last minute, your shipment of inventory containing all the ingredients for tonight's dinner special never showed up or the plumbing is acting up again.

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How to Take Mouthwatering Instagram Food Photos for Your Restaurant

Next Restaurants

By Marian Domingo, Contributor. When luring in customers with the aroma of cooking food is not an option, the next best thing is to tempt them with photos. Instagram is a great way to capture a whole new market, with millions of potential customers at your fingertips. . All you need is a good enough smartphone camera, some quick tips , good food, and you’re ready to go!

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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 Bar Inventory Management is Crucial to Post-Pandemic Success

Sculpture Hospitality

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, bar owners around the world have learnt a number of lessons about managing their businesses during challenging times. Perhaps no lesson, however, has been as important as understanding cash flow.

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THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO DISAPPOINT

Culinary Cues

Yes, I get it. It has all been about survival for restaurants over the past 16 months and survival has not been easy. Now, providing we don’t ignore the still looming dangers of Covid and the challenges of convincing 40% of the population to accept the vaccine, we might stand a chance of long-term recovery. Hope springs eternal. Staffing is a bear – I know it.

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6 Effective Ways to Increase Profit Margins at Your Restaurant

Cheetah

Reading Time: 5 minutes. The pandemic has exacerbated the restaurant labor crisis and there is only one way out – offering staff higher wages and improving benefits. To achieve this while still staying in the black, restaurants need to significantly increase profit margins, but how? In our last article we explored adding auto-gratuity to the bill and sharing tips with BOH staff.

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Hiring Professional Security to Protect Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

Hiring a security firm can help protect your restaurant from disgruntled customers and crime, but which firm do you hire and what should you look for in a security team? When trusting someone else to protect your restuarant, it is important to find the right firm for the job. There are a lot of choices in security firms but not all may be the right fit.

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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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12 Best Ways To Get Your Restaurant Noticed

7 Shifts

With plenty of restaurants to choose from, you want to make sure yours stands out from the rest. You may have the finest ingredients, the friendliest staff, and a picture-perfect venue, but if your restaurant isn't getting noticed, all that hard work will go to waste. To help, we put together the ultimate guide to getting your restaurant noticed. From stand-out social media accounts, to good old-fashioned mail marketing, we'll walk you through 12 unique customer-driving ideas!

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12 Best Chinese Food Restaurant Chains

Restaurant Clicks

Chinese food is the ultimate take-out food, its sweet, sour, tangy, and spicy sauces make marinating vegetables, meats, and seafood more perfect the longer it sits. Chinese immigrants have popularized traditional Chinese dishes by fusing them with American ingredients like cream cheese and wheat noodles to create an entirely different menu than what you might encounter in China.

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How to Manage Your Restaurant Inventory for Greater Profitability

Sculpture Hospitality

Your restaurant inventory is the backbone of your business. The stock you buy is an asset that directly impacts how profitable your business is, yet so many restaurants aren’t building inventory management strategies that protect those assets.

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THE AGE OF RESTAURANT FREE-AGENCY

Culinary Cues

Well, I suppose desperate times call for desperate measures. If there is stability in the restaurant business – I’m not quite sure where it is. With a real need to try and make-up for a lost year and an overnight demand for dining out – restaurants are faced with a new pressing issue: where do we find the staff and how do we keep them? When demand exceeds supply in any situation – businesses know that prices inevitably go up.

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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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Reduce Prep Work & Increase Profit Margins with Pre-Cut Foods

Cheetah

Reading Time: 3 minutes. In the kitchen, time equals money. Restaurant operators need to cut back on any activity that isn’t directly increasing profit margins, and prepping is a major one. Programs like Cheetah Just-In-Time (JIT) enable restaurants to buy prepped food, significantly reduce prep work and focus back-of-house activities on the things that matter most.

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Get These IT Essentials Right to Protect Customers’ User Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

The restaurant industry is roaring back into action as pandemic lockdowns wind down. That said, the processes that became norms during the pandemic, such as online ordering and contactless pickup, are here to stay for the convenience of hungry customers. In fact, a recent Paytronix/PYMNTS report revealed 92 percent of vaccinated dining customers plan to keep ordering online, and another found sales generated through digital ordering platforms grew more than three times once the pandemic began.

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How Kaldi’s Coffee uses 7shifts to schedule and connect with 100+ team members

7 Shifts

Kaldi's Coffee was founded nearly 27 years ago in St. Louis and has been providing great coffee from all over the world to the masses ever since. And in those years, they've grown considerably, adding 12 locations across St. Louis and even into Atlanta, Georgia. Kaldi's has been with 7shifts since our founding year in 2014, one of our earliest adopters of the restaurant scheduling tools.

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What is an Angel Shot and When to Order It

Restaurant Clicks

As lockdowns continue to lift across the country, excited patrons are returning to bars and restaurants, eager to find fun. However, for women who haven’t been in a bar recently, it’s important to never forget basic safety techniques. Enter the angel shot. It’s a simple, subtle, and effective way for women to ask for help from bartenders and servers.

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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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‘Roadrunner’ and the Dismal Search for the ‘Real Bourdain’

EATER

Getty Images. Why Morgan Neville’s Anthony Bourdain documentary fails to close the gap between the on-camera Bourdain and the person who performed him An obscure, 43-year-old chef and author of minor crime novels is reborn, after a sudden and unexpected literary success, into a life of global fame and influence. A charmed life, cut short when he hanged himself in a hotel bathroom in Alsace 18 years later.

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THE CHEF’S EMOTIONS

Culinary Cues

Let’s face it – we are prisoners of our own emotional package. Some of these emotions are visible and some are not; some are more pronounced in certain individuals, and some are barely noticeable in others, but the fact remains that our emotional package can be, and in many cases is: in control. Chefs, for some reason have a history of wearing their emotions on their sleeves, but I would dare to say that even in the case of the most visible emotional chef there is much that is hidden under the s

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Why Physical Advertising is Still Important

Indoor Media

It’s 2021, and the world is well into the digital age. The internet rules the world — people live on social media. For example, there are about 2.85 billion monthly active users on Facebook, which is a little more than a third of the world’s population. If you have an iPhone, you probably get a notification about your average daily screen time once a week.

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Harnessing Data and Using Automation to Deliver a More Personalized Dining Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

Hold the pickles but double-up on mayo. Gluten-free buns, please. Supersize it – every time. We’ve entered an age where personalization is everything. As a result, quick-service and fast-casual restaurants are increasingly harnessing big data and automation to give their customers what they want before an order comes out of their mouth – or their brand’s app.

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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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How to Build Restaurant Core Values

7 Shifts

For the latest episode of the 7shifts podcast, we synced up with Kelly McCutcheon of Hopdoddy Burger Bar to discuss how they came up with theirs. With 20 plus locations across the southeast U.S., Hopdoddy looks to their core values as a sort of operating system for how they do business. From hiring restaurant employees to growth to the tough decisions, Hopoddy looks to its core values every single day.

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Librandi Wines of Calabria

A Wine Story

Librandi Wines of Calabria. Librandi: Authentic Wines of Calabria Recently I discovered several delicious wines of Librande. This is a new-to-me brand from an Italian wine-growing region, Calabria, with historical significance. The region and its native grapes Gaglioppo and Greco Bianco were familiar to me from my studies for the Italian Wine Professional designation.

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Forget Canning, and Get Yourself a Chinese Pickle Crock

EATER

The porcelain wonder uses a moat of saltwater to create a natural seal In the 1970s, archaeologists in China stumbled across the 2,000-year-old tomb of a noblewoman from the Han dynasty. Known as Lady Dai , she was surrounded by lavish clothes, jewelry, and the remnants of her last banquet. Among the haul she was taking into the afterlife was a collection of pickle jars and a thick manuscript of corresponding pickle recipes.

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Bar Inventory: How to Create a Signature Drink Your Bar is Known For

Sculpture Hospitality

Building a successful and profitable bar is all about creating a brand story that customers’ buy into. The better your story, the easier it will be to attract new guests and the more likely it will be that existing guests stay loyal to your bar.

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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