Restaurant Business

APRIL 17, 2023

Technomic's Take: Regulatory requirements, ESG goals and local weather patterns will be the key drivers of major innovation in these restaurants.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 18, 2023

‘The times they are a changin’, proclaimed Bob Dylan in 1964. His words seem quite relevant today. The restaurant business is sometimes like the canary in the coal mine and at other times like the father of teenage children – the last to know. Everything is different since the pandemic, yet so many things are no different than they were 5 0 years ago.

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EATER

APRIL 20, 2023

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The Rail

APRIL 19, 2023

By Jill Goodwin, Contributor Visual branding is crucial for all businesses because it helps shape customers’ overall perception of your business. But in the restaurant and food industry, it’s even more important. We’ve all heard the phrase “ we eat with our eyes ” — and for good reason. This centuries-old expression holds an indisputable truth. People tend to connect with visuals far faster than they do with other forms of communication, such as text.

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Sculpture Hospitality

APRIL 18, 2023

In our recent blog, New Diner Trends Impacting Your Restaurant Inventory Strategy in 2023 , we discussed how - despite the fact that dine-in is back and as popular as ever - young diners prefer to order online.

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Open for Business

APRIL 19, 2023

Restaurant employee turnover dwarfs other industries’ churn rate: roughly 70% annually. Fortunately, each restaurant is more than a statistic and owners have tools to bring their own employee turnover rate down. Creating a positive workplace culture is an important tool in any owner’s toolbox, and there’s an often overlooked way to enhance company culture and decrease churn at the same time: the exit interview.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 17, 2023

Most restaurants (76 percent) are currently using automation in three or more areas of operation and agree that certain roles are more automatable than others, according to Capterra research The survey also found that more than half of restaurant leaders say front-of-house restaurant workers can easily be automated with today’s technology, and nearly all restaurants today (96 percent) use automation tools in their back-of-house operations.

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Thrive POS

APRIL 17, 2023

In recent years, the demand for delivery services has skyrocketed, putting a strain on pizza restaurants to maintain a robust team of delivery drivers. Hiring and retaining drivers has become increasingly challenging, with many drivers preferring the flexibility offered by third-party companies such as DoorDash. Fortunately, DoorDash Drive and Thrive POS have joined forces to help pizza restaurants overcome these challenges and continue to provide exceptional delivery service to their customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 19, 2023

Text messaging is now mainstream for many restaurant and food retail businesses and their communications plans. And rightfully so. Research from Gartner has found 90 percent of all people read texts within three minutes of receipt, and notes that short message service (SMS) boasts a 98 percent open rate. It’s no surprise that restaurants big and small are tapping into text messages to reach their customers.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 15, 2023

My town leaders, bless their hearts, try to figure out ways to strum up cash flow for small businesses. A tip of the chef’s toque for the good old college try. It’s early spring, mud season as it is commonly called, and they are putting in a Yeoman’s effort at organizing another restaurant week. All good intentions – they want to create full or partially full dining rooms for restaurants in need.

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7 Shifts

APRIL 21, 2023

What comes to mind when you think of success in the restaurant industry? A colorful TV personality or a renowned cookbook author? Not every restaurant worker wants to be a celebrity chef. Maybe you started your role as a part-time gig and want to explore what the industry has to offer. Maybe you realized hospitality is your passion. You can grow your career in restaurants and make it your profession.

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 18, 2023

Since the world’s first espresso machine was patented by Angelo Moriondo in 1884 , design has come a long way. Between becoming more sleek and modern and focusing on controlling espresso extraction, technology continues to evolve. Throughout this growth, precision has always been a guiding focus – and this continues to be the case. Now more than ever, coffee shops and roasters invest in high-quality, precise espresso machines for a number of reasons.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2023

Seattle-based Floisand Studio Architects has had a long-term partnership with Pagliacci Pizza including the thoughtful reimagination of the chain's newest location across from Seattle’s Ballard Locks. The original design is a heavy timber replica of a six-beam Haida house—a traditional style of building by the Haida Tribe—which opened in 1939 as a Native American curio shop before serving as a restaurant space starting in 1945.

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MadMobile

APRIL 20, 2023

Social media is today’s most influential networking tool. However, sometimes managing social media marketing can feel overwhelming and almost like a second job. There is so much to learn, and right when you feel like you’ve caught up, new trends and apps emerge. That’s because social media platforms are advancing and growing every day. Platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and now Tik Tok can offer your restaurant promotional content that can help you build relationships one post at a

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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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APRIL 15, 2023

Today shoppers trust reviews and recommendations before they trust a brand. They turn to their friends and seek out reviews before they even think of buying products from a brand they’ve never heard of. Bringing Influencers marketing for your Ecommerce business on board this traditional word-of-mouth marketing by tapping into a pre-build audience. Whether you choose Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, or YouTube?

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 17, 2023

Over the past century, the coffee industry has evolved in a number of different ways. From the increasing reliance on technology to a growing emphasis on sustainability , there have been significant developments across all areas of the supply chain. This includes sourcing and trading green coffee. It’s fair to say that historically, the global trade of green coffee has typically favoured larger and more established importers and roasters.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 18, 2023

Mark Brezinski has been heralded as "the father of Dallas’ fast casual food scene" He has opened more than 50 restaurants in the DFW area including Pei Wei Asian Diner, Bengal Coast, Velvet Taco and his newest venture Bizzy Burger Merchants. Brezinski chronicles his award-winning career and the drama behind the curtain is front and center in his new book called " ForkFight!

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EATER

APRIL 19, 2023

Megan Rizzo /Eater From freeze-dried Skittles to chamoy-coated Gushers, nostalgic candies are finding new life — and creating big business — on TikTok Like most of us who were bored out of our minds during the COVID-19 shutdowns in 2020, Nema Causey turned to TikTok. But the stakes were much higher for Causey, whose business, Candy Me Up, sold bulk candy to retail and wholesale clients.

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Restaurant Business

APRIL 20, 2023

Hear what operators and experts had to say about ghost kitchens and ChatGPT, takeout trends, the risks of cyber attacks, how to drive traffic and cultivating young leaders.

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 19, 2023

On Friday 21st April, this year’s Specialty Coffee Expo will take place in Portland, Oregon. The annual expo is one of the biggest – and most important – events in the global coffee industry. Thousands of people attend the expo every year, including roasters, producers, coffee equipment manufacturers, baristas, and coffee business owners. The event serves as a platform to bring coffee professionals together to forge new connections and partnerships – helping to drive the specialty coffee sector

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 21, 2023

Restaurants and bars are often targets for robbery, burglary and theft , so much so that the FBI ranks restaurants as the eighth most common setting for violent crime and nearly half of cyber-attacks target small businesses. Because restaurants and bars can accumulate a large amount of cash during daily operations, they are attractive targets for criminal activity.

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EATER

APRIL 18, 2023

It’s just fine the way it is. | Shutterstock An appreciation of plain-ass, unadulterated instant ramen I am exhausted by ramen hacks. Every time I open TikTok or look at Instagram, I am bombarded with different ways to upgrade a bowl of instant ramen. I’ve added peanut butter , I’ve added mayo and egg , I’ve added a slice of cheese. And while all those “hacks” are tasty, they don’t manage to eclipse the soul-satiating nature of a basic-ass bowl of instant ramen.

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Restaurant Business

APRIL 17, 2023

The ransomware attack is preventing restaurants from doing back office tasks like payroll. NCR said it's working to restore the system.

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 16, 2023

It’s fair to say that since the pandemic, more and more consumers have been looking to create café-quality beverages at home. These includes espresso, too. A large part of this stems from a rise in coffee education. A growing number of roasters and coffee shops now offer courses or classes which help people to understand more about specialty coffee, as well as how to prepare it properly at home.

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Chowly

APRIL 21, 2023

Imagine that you’re at the tailend of a hectic day. You look at the clock and realize it’s dinnertime so you whip out your phone to place an order for delivery. A new neighborhood restaurant pops up and you scan their menu hungrily in search of a combo meal platter. Within seconds you feel overwhelmed and confused by their third party delivery menu.

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EATER

APRIL 17, 2023

María Jesús Contreras /Eater How Somali food in the diaspora holds the history of forced migration Early last year, I launched a pop-up in Los Angeles that gave birth to a new culinary idea that I had been toying with for over a decade. In a city that famously loves breakfast burritos, I began to sell a Somali-style wrap — spongy and sour anjero-wrapped breakfast burritos filled with soft scrambled eggs, fuul (fava bean stew), and spicy vibrant green basbaas (Somali hot sauce).

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Restaurant Business

APRIL 17, 2023

Under the proposed deal, co-founders Noah Tepperberg and Jason Strauss will return to ownership in partnership with luxury investment firm Mohari Hospitality, founded by an online poker billionaire.

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Lady Boss Blogger

APRIL 19, 2023

Businesses are vulnerable to a wide variety of threats. All business owners need to be proactive in their approach to dealing with these threats. That means that they need to identify these risks and find ways of managing them that are appropriate for their business type. If you do not do this, you could leave […] The post 4 Tips: How To Protect Your Business appeared first on Lady Boss Blogger.

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Bizimply

APRIL 18, 2023

Achieving maximum efficiency can be a challenging task for retail managers, especially in the face of high competition and constantly changing market trends. The post 5 Ways to to Make your <b>Retail Staff More Efficient </b> appeared first on Bizimply.

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EATER

APRIL 19, 2023

Daniela Jordan-Villaveces When the co-founder of one of the country’s first Black food bookstores needs something quick and filling to eat, curry with experimental roti is the answer We all could use a little dinner inspiration — even Ali Slagle, who dreams of dinner. In “Dinner Is Served,” she asks colleagues about one night when they somehow transformed ingredients into dinner with all this life going on.

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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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