Restaurant Technology Guys
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Restaurants need the latest and most efficient restaurant inventory management tools to ensure a smooth business flow and stay completely stocked and informed. The post Restaurant Inventory Management Technology Improves Efficiency appeared first on Restaurant Technology Guys.
Modern Restaurant Management
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
The inevitable cycle of seasonal-driven activity fluctuations occurs each year, but it can still catch the restaurant industry off guard if they’re not prepared. As these chaotic holiday months approach, restaurants may find themselves needing to stock both their kitchen and their staff, but neither is as easy as it sounds. This is especially true as restaurants prepare for another uncertain holiday season.
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Open for Business
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Restaurant technology has changed everything about the way people do business today. Once upon a time, most restaurants operated on a patchwork of paper systems involving notebooks and back-of-the-napkin calculations, not to mention information owners and managers kept in their heads, hunches, and habits. Today, digital tools can streamline almost every aspect of running a restaurant business.
Restaurant Engine
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Do you have time for regular posting? If not, a social media manager can help. As a restaurant owner or manager, it can be hard to know when to hire help, especially when it comes to digital marketing. When considering the question, “Should your restaurant have a social media manager,” many people in the restaurant business might automatically answer no.
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.
The Rail
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
By Jill Goodwin, Contributor Just like all fads, food trends come and go. If you want your restaurant to stay popular, relevant, and exciting, you have to keep on introducing new dishes and drinks. While customers may have a few favorites, a menu that never changes gets boring, fast. At the end of the day, menu compilation is a creative process not unlike that of a painter or a fashion designer.
Bizimply
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Read these tips on supporting your staff through the cost of living crisis. Their wellbeing is important to maintain productivity and morale. The post Surviving the Cost of Living Crisis: Supporting Your Staff appeared first on Bizimply.
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Culinary Cues
NOVEMBER 6, 2022
I have always loved the restaurant business. My professional life has been dedicated to the kitchen, the people of restaurants, the ingredients and their source, the process and the adrenaline, the service and an opportunity to make people happy, and of course those plates as they slide down the pass. There are, of course, restaurants and there are restaurants.
Bottleneck Management
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
We hope to be able to teach you something new about your favorite pours and encourage you to try new ones with this series exploring different beer styles. Cheers! Style Spotlight . Double IPA. Overall Taste: An intensely hoppy, fairly strong, bitter pale ale. Strongly hopped, but clean, dry, and lacking harshness. Despite showing its strength, drinkability is an important consideration.
Perfect Daily Grind
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Although there are many reasons to celebrate and support the specialty coffee industry, it has received some criticism in recent years – most notably for being elitist and inaccessible. However, some may argue that in order for specialty coffee to truly remain “specialty”, it will always be somewhat exclusionary. This might specifically be the case for those who are unable to afford more expensive coffee or equipment, and lead eventually to their ostracisation.
EATER
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Shutterstock. As QR codes, app-based service, and robotic servers become more and more common, that makes the job tougher for the humans working alongside them This story was originally published on Civil Eats. In 2021, I worked in a restaurant that promoted itself as the future of dining. Diners would sit down and immediately download an app to browse the menu, place their order, and pay with a credit card, all on their phones.
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The Rail
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
By Jennesa Ongkit, Contributor If you run a bar or restaurant, you already know how prevalent the Internet is for hungry diners looking for a new place to eat. Consequently, if the Internet doesn't have much information about your restaurant, you can lose potential guests. The great news is that there are ways for you to get yourself listed on the Internet.
Modern Restaurant Management
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Here’s an important – but often overlooked – truth for the restaurant industry: To make your customers to feel valued and appreciated, you must get their orders right! All too often, restaurants are fumbling on that basic principle. Perhaps they’re understaffed and struggling to keep up with incoming orders. Or employees haven’t been properly (and regularly) trained.
Culinary Cues
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
Push it out, how many covers, lock, and load, finish strong, over the hump, wrap it up: this the language of the kitchen during service, these are the timestamps like the number of quarters in a football game or innings in baseball. Get it done, no mistakes, and pick up the pace are all directives that help line cooks make it through another day or night.
The Eat Restaurant
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
86 that dish? Camper? Kill it? In the weeds? If you are new to the restaurant industry or a seasoned veteran looking to be more involved in the process, you are definitely going to have to brush up on your restaurant lingo. Terms such as the ones above are used on a daily basis in most restaurants, and while some terms are more common than others, you should definitely learn what they mean - lest you make a fool of yourself in front of your staff.
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Perfect Daily Grind
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Across the world of specialty coffee, there is undeniably a growing focus on sourcing high-quality, sustainable, and traceable coffees. A large part of this revolves around offering single origin coffees ; these coffees are grown in one particular location, which can range from one country to one specific plot on a farm. For many years now, single origins have been popular in specialty coffee shops around the world, as well as in the World Coffee Championships (WCC) – favoured by many coffee pro
EATER
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Lille Allen/Eater. Can an app promising discount, end-of-day goods make a dent in America’s food waste problem? When I was 12 years old, I had a brief and desultory career as a babysitter. I counted the minutes until the kids went to bed and I could make good on their parents’ offer: Eat whatever snacks you like. I have no memory of the money I made or the families I worked for, but I do remember the thrill of opening other people’s kitchen cabinets to find a wealth of surprise treats.
The Rail
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
By Indiana Lee, Contributor Nearly three-quarters (71%) of women in the restaurant industry note that they have been sexually harassed at work at least once during their time in the industry. This is incredibly disheartening considering it’s unlawful and, often, traumatic. Although women may be disproportionately affected, this applies to all genders.
Modern Restaurant Management
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Restaurants are still suffering from a labor shortage – according to the National Restaurant Association , as of September 2022 “eating and drinking places [were] still 560,000 jobs (or 4.5%) below their pre-pandemic staffing levels – tops among all U.S. industries.” As a result, we’re seeing restaurants closing early or not able to open at all because they don’t have enough staff.
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Culinary Cues
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
I may be in the minority, but I have always felt, and often promoted, that restaurants can and occasionally do serve a higher purpose. Since those early days as an apprentice and maybe even before as a 16-year-old dishwasher, I saw something special in restaurant life. Yes, life – since those who find that higher purpose will likely invest a significant amount of time in a restaurant kitchen, not because they must, but rather because they want to.
Lavu
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
An idea to open a pizzeria is just an idea until you put your plan on paper. If you’re ready to turn your dream of … Use This Example Pizza Business Plan to Open Your Pizzeria Read More ». The post Use This Example Pizza Business Plan to Open Your Pizzeria appeared first on iPad Point of Sale System for Restaurants, Bars & More.
Perfect Daily Grind
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
In the specialty coffee industry, it’s no understatement that experimentally processed coffees have become increasingly popular in recent years. More and more producers are using new and innovative processing methods, with fermentation playing a significant role in many of them. However, as with any newly emerging coffee processing technique, farmers need to take great care when manipulating fermentation to process coffee.
EATER
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Shutterstock. A deadly fungus largely wiped out the American chestnut tree. But some farmers, scientists, and advocates are fighting to bring back the onetime culinary staple. On September 22, 1870, Henry Ward Beecher — a clergyman and social reformer as well as the brother of Uncle Tom’s Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe — took to the Pittsfield Sun newspaper to write of the pleasures of “a-chestnutting” during his Massachusetts boyhood: “There was frolic enough, and climbing enough, and shaki
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The Food Corridor
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Looking for your shared kitchen home in Ohio? Below are our top ten picks for Shared Kitchens in Ohio. To see a full list of commercial and commissary kitchens in Ohio, check out The Kitchen Door. Findlay Kitchen – 1719 Elm St, Cincinnati, OH. Findlay Kitchen is a non-profit food business incubator, located in the heart of the historic Findlay Market district.
Modern Restaurant Management
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
From higher rankings to increasing your online reputation and brand visibility, Google reviews can boost your business for completely free. However, the term ‘get more Google reviews’ receives approximately 14,000 annual global searches, suggesting business owners and marketeers are struggling to find the secret to success. To help you out, here's what this SEO expert has to say.
Culinary Cues
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Yep, I know there are bruises and wounds to heal, any industry has their share. Certainly, there are issues and things to be addressed and fixed and there is little doubt that life has not always been fair and kind when it comes to kitchen work, but like so many other businesses and industries – the positive far outweighs those scars and wounds. Take the time to think about it: This is a profile of the restaurant business that gets lost in all the negative press. [] SECOND LARGEST EMPLOYER.
Black Box Intelligence
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
New platform enables multi-location restaurants to quickly and accurately predict and respond to customer needs and local market trends at scale to grow their businesses. November 14, 2022 – Black Box Intelligence, the leading performance benchmarking provider for the restaurant industry, today announced GuestXM™, the first Customer Experience Management Platform (CEM) purpose-built for the restaurant industry.
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.
Perfect Daily Grind
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Earlier this year, we announced that Producer & Roaster Forum (PRF) will return to El Salvador in 2023. PRF was previously held in El Salvador in 2016 as the first event of its kind. PRF El Salvador will be held at the Salamanca Exhibition Centre in San Salvador on 16 and 17 March 2023. The event will bring together a range of industry experts – including local producers, as well as international roasters, traders, baristas, and more.
EATER
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
The famous bowl and a roll. | Brent Hofacker/Shutterstock. “Bowl and a roll” Fridays have endeared countless school kids across the Heartland and Great Plains to the combo, which can appear baffling to diners who haven’t grown up with it When Adam Schneider first moved to Yoder, Kansas, from St. Louis and began working at Carriage Crossing Restaurant in 2000, he quickly fell in love with the restaurant’s made-from-scratch cinnamon rolls.
Society Insurance
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
As a bar or restaurant owner, you know that your night isn’t over when the last customer leaves. When the door closes and the lights come back up in the dining area and bar, there are still tasks to complete before the night is truly done. To expedite the process of wrapping up for the night, restaurant and bar owners can turn to a closing checklist that outlines tasks to be completed by front-of-house staff, back-of-house staff, and management.
Modern Restaurant Management
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Your restaurant is open and customers are back. Now, your main challenge may be finding enough employees to handle the surging demand. Amidst this good news, you should be aware of three hidden pitfalls that could affect your ability to operate safely and with a full complement of staff. 1. New Employees Have More On-the-Job Injuries. Workers’ compensation data shows an uptick in the number of new employees injured on the job, especially in the hospitality and food service industries.
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
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