March, 2022

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Spring Break Travel is in the Forecast: How to Attract Tourists to Your Restaurant

Restaurant365

Spring Break is right around the corner! According to Vacasa’s 2022 Spring Travel Trend’s survey, one thing is clear: everyone needs a break this spring. The survey showed that: More than half (56%) of Americans are planning a trip this spring. 37% are planning to travel during spring break, specifically, which is an increase from the 29% who were traveling for Spring Break 2021.

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Fraud and Cybersecurity Trends: What the Restaurant Industry Needs to Know

Modern Restaurant Management

A lot of people would assume that fraud in the restaurant industry doesn’t extend beyond dine-and-dashers and bad cheques, but those with experience in the industry, especially at the level of popular franchises and chains, will tell you that fraud is more common than most people recognize. The food service industry has had a tough couple of years, and a large part of what has kept restaurants afloat has been a move to digitalization.

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The Smart Restaurant

Sante

A Series by Hunger Rush.

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ALL HAIL DISHWASHERS

Culinary Cues

March 9 was National Dish Washer Day. I’m not sure who decided that this declaration be made, but for those of us in the restaurant business – it is so appropriate. I have long proclaimed that the dish washer was the most important position in the kitchen – even more important than the chef. If you doubt my belief – think about this: If a line cook calls out – we simply spread the work out among those who are present.

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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[Data] Fast Casual Restaurant Trends: Sales and Labor

7 Shifts

Coming out of 2020, few restaurant types were better prepared for the new normal than quick service and fast casual. They had streamlined menus, more digital presence than their full-service counterparts, and dining rooms weren't an integral part of the fast casual experience. But how have they stacked up when it comes to sales and labor this year versus the same period in 2021?

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Exploring AI in coffee roasting

Perfect Daily Grind

In recent years, there’s no doubt that we’ve seen the rise of artificial intelligence in a number of industries. Coffee roasting is no exception, and with the growing prevalence of automation in the sector over the past couple of decades, AI is an obvious next step. There are several advantages that using AI can bring during roasting, which range from improving efficiency and minimising workload to greater precision and lower costs. .

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Restaurant Payments Go from Cash to Credit to Contactless – to Cryptocurrency 

Modern Restaurant Management

The value of the cryptocurrency market almost tripled in 2021 , with digital currencies having the potential to achieve returns higher than the stock market. People use cryptocurrency for quick payments, anonymity, investments or to sidestep transaction fees charged by banks. As payments evolve, consumers adapt and restaurants must meet them there. Why the Crypto Craze?

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The Future of Your Business is Waiting?

Sante

Learn how AI can make your restaurant's digital ordering experience better than ever.

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THE REALITY FOR AN AGING CHEF

Culinary Cues

I would assume that many chefs who read this article – at least the ones from my generation have reflected on where they are, what they have done, and what they are still able to do. I also assume that, like me, you have entertained lofty ideas of your ability to “do it all over again” with the same energy as you did a few decades earlier. There is something about aging that we all want to resist – at least mentally.

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17 Awesome Ways To Motivate Your Restaurant Employees

7 Shifts

A restaurant earns its reputation primarily from two things: its food and its service. In order to deliver on both these accounts, it's critical to cultivate an environment where people — customers and staff alike — want to be. That's why it is important to learn how to motivate your restaurant employees. We are most productive and responsive when we are happy, so it makes sense to create an environment that fosters this kind of positive emotion.

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2025 Payroll Calendar Templates (Biweekly, Semi-Monthly, and Monthly)

Use these handy calendar templates to stay on top of payroll in 2025! Download them today to share with your HR team or post for employees. Whether your company has biweekly, semi-monthly, or monthly pay periods, Paycor has you covered. Get your templates today!

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Employee Retention: How To Retain Employees For Small Businesses

Sling

Employee retention should be high on every manager’s priority list. If it’s not, you run the risk of your best employees leaving for greener pastures. That, in itself, is a huge problem because now you have to find a qualified replacement in addition to your normal daily responsibilities. But an employee leaving doesn’t just impact you, the manager.

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Running Restaurant Promotions

ChowNow

We know that saving money is the #1 concern for restaurant owners and managers everywhere. Facing notoriously low profit margins , it’s easy to shy away from the idea of selling your food for a smaller profit. In reality, running a promotion can not only help you stand out and be memorable, but it can give your customers an incentive to purchase more than they would have normally!

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To Mitigate ‘The Great Resignation’ Refocus on the Employee Experience

Modern Restaurant Management

The landscape of the restaurant industry has changed forever due to Covid and the operational complexities that the pandemic introduced. As brands scrambled to change their business models – whether through the adoption of touchless payments, delivery and curbside pickup, or the use of QR codes to access online menus – consumers were also forced to adapt their dining behaviors.

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Hiring Restaurant Staff, Part 1: Tips for Optimizing Job Postings

Restaurant365

Hiring restaurant staff is top of mind in the restaurant industry. The restaurant staff shortage has severely impacted restaurant operations, from reducing operating hours to lessening the guest experience. Why is there a shortage of restaurant workers? Staffing has always been ongoing in the restaurant industry because of the transient nature of restaurant jobs in general, but the current hiring crisis makes attracting employees a top priority among all restaurant businesses, from single units

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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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TWENTY COMMON MISTAKES INDEPENDENT RESTAURATEURS MAKE

Culinary Cues

Are you thinking about owning a restaurant? You are not alone if the thought of putting your name on a restaurant awning has crossed your mind. One of the most tempting forays into entrepreneurship is the restaurant business. How hard can it be – right? Well, you have all heard the statistics about success and failure when food and beverage are involved, so I won’t repeat them.

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How National Coney Island Uses 7shifts to Bring Together 16 Locations

7 Shifts

Executive Summary. Region: Great Lakes. Number of Locations: 16. Restaurant Type: Quick Service. Problem : Manual scheduling processes that took too much time, siloed operations, and didn't resonate with a younger, tech-saavy workforce. Solution: Cloud-based scheduling software that brings together operations across 16 locations, keeps staff accountable, and gives them tools to increase efficiency.

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How do you roast coffee for barista competitions?

Perfect Daily Grind

The process of roasting coffee for barista competitions is in many ways different from roasting for wholesale customers and end consumers. This is for a number of reasons, but chief among them is the fact that competition coffee is often of very high quality, and available in limited supply. As a result, the aim is to bring out the coffee’s unique qualities and complexity in a specific way.

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The Soul of Saugus

EATER

Sophie Park. A storied stretch of Route 1 in Massachusetts was once home to restaurants with over-the-top roadside attractions. Now, only Kowloon, owned by the Wong family, remains, and it’s unclear for how much longer. Every other weekend between 1988 and 1998, I became, as my fourth-grade teacher christened me, Miss Pan Am, jetting between Boston’s Logan Airport and LaGuardia’s Marine Air Terminal.

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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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Three Types of Bad Reviews and How to Respond to Them

Modern Restaurant Management

Bad reviews can come from anywhere and stay on the internet for thousands of potential customers to see. Some reviews point out small, one-off incidents and others touch on systematic problems. To help ease some of the frustration that follows receiving a negative review, look at it this way. All negative reviews hold valuable information about how your restaurant can improve.

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5 Restaurant Chalkboard Ideas for Social Media

Next Restaurants

By Ron Stefanski, Contributor. Although we live in an era of digital art, a lot of people still find appeal in hand-lettered chalkboard signs. We come across them every day inside restaurants or on sidewalks – these fun, charming, and rustic signs with funny quotes or mouthwatering menus that showcase a restaurant’s food style and make you stop dead in your tracks. .

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FIRE and HEAT

Culinary Cues

It is something quite hard to explain – a fascination, a bit of fear, a desire, something to marvel at, and even something to try and control. It is at the core of what every cook does, the most essential ingredient, the key to releasing unlimited varieties of flavor, the one ingredient that determines a person’s ability to cook, the mysterious component that separates a kitchen from the rest of the world – heat.

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The Top 24 Restaurant Management Apps for Owners and Operators

7 Shifts

Restaurant technology has revolutionized the way that restaurants are managed - replacing arduous and tedious task management with efficiency, automation, and clarity. The best restaurant management apps allow you to run your business from anywhere, provide you with valuable insights, empower your team , and let you focus on creating the very best experience for your guests.

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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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What is koji fermented coffee?

Perfect Daily Grind

Processing is a stage in coffee production which is necessary to prepare the beans for roasting, as well as having a significant impact on coffee freshness and flavour. In recent years, experimental processing methods which leverage the power of fermentation (such as anaerobic fermentation and carbonic maceration) have become increasingly common. However, there is still room for further innovation in coffee processing.

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The Multilevel Truth Behind Small Town America’s Latest Tea Obsession

EATER

Vibrantly colored, highly caffeinated, health-focused drinks have taken over social media, but for the proprietors of these beverage-slinging “nutrition clubs,” the realities can be far less bright They’re all over Instagram : multicolored beverages in layers of unnaturally bright oranges, greens, and blues, each flavor layered into a cup of ice to show off the vibrant colors.

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Private Equity in 2022

Modern Restaurant Management

For much of last year, private-equity groups didn’t participate in too many deals. They were still building an understanding of the post-pandemic economy and valuations, making it difficult to evaluate investment opportunities. Adding to direct pandemic-related concerns were the inflation of two of the industry’s largest costs: labor — up 13 percent over the past year — and supply chain costs, up more than 11 percent.

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Bar and Restaurant Management: Why Data is Crucial to Success

Sculpture Hospitality

Running a bar or a restaurant is difficult. The margins can be razor-thin, talented labor is difficult to find (especially during the ‘Great Resignation’) and the industry is highly competitive.

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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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IN THE KITCHEN – ORGANIZATION IS EVERYTHING

Culinary Cues

From first-in, first-out in the walk-in cooler to how you fold side towels and where your knives are placed – it is organization that allows a kitchen to run efficiently and keeps the mood and pace of the restaurant in sync. To some, it may seem less significant, but to seasoned professionals – this is the truth of the kitchen. To the novice it may appear the cooks and chefs are plagued by OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) but let me be clear: a kitchen without this level of organi

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Restaurant Management Software: A Comprehensive Roundup

Aaron Allen & Associates

Running a restaurant is hard work. There are so many things to think about — from inventory management to restaurant payment and billing and more — it can be difficult to keep track of it all. That’s where restaurant management software comes in. In this roundup, we will take a look at some of the best restaurant management software out there.

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February Recap: Black History Month, Healthy Menus and More

Cheetah

Reading Time: 2 minutes. This month was full of inspiration! We sat down with some of the Bay Area’s leading black entrepreneurs, interviewed a couple business partners who are making a killing serving simple, wholesome and nutritious meals to their healthy customers, and also launched Cheetah’s Marketplace – essentially an online farmers’ market, where you have access to emerging local and craft food vendors.

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Here Are the 2022 James Beard Awards Restaurant and Chef Finalists

EATER

James Beard Foundation. The full list of nominees Today, the James Beard Foundation announced its slate of finalists for its 2022 awards. This short list of nominees honors the year’s outstanding restaurants and chefs — the first such list since 2020. In addition to the list of Restaurant and Chef Award finalists, the foundation announced chef and TV host Martin Yan as the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award and Grace Young as the winner of its Humanitarian of the Year Award for her work su

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Why (and How) to Switch to a New HR & Payroll Platform

Speaker: Speakers:

HR and payroll impact every aspect of your business. Choosing the right provider is one of the most important decisions you’ll make. Before you decide, hear first-hand customer accounts in Paycor’s webinar to learn: The three most important things to look for when switching. How to begin your search. What are some of the red flags?