Sante

APRIL 11, 2022

Here’s how your restaurant business can swim in revenue and cost savings— even when the labor pool is shallow.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 12, 2022

“I just don’t understand,” the restaurant owner lamented as we discussed a recent customer incident. “He said he was excited to finally be able to eat inside again. and then five minutes later, he storms out because we can’t seat him right away. Doesn’t he realize how short staffed we are?!” It’s a dilemma vexing restaurants across the country.

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7 Shifts

APRIL 14, 2022

In the wake of the great resignation , restaurants have been raising labor costs to both attract and retain all-star employees. These raises have certainly helped employee standard of living, but they also require more accurate multi location scheduling and team management to keep menu costs low and the restaurant profitable. Nowadays, an over-staffed shift costs more because your restaurant could be seriously overspending on labor.

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 13, 2022

In recent years, there’s no denying that home espresso machines have changed to meet the evolving needs of home coffee consumers. Today, with the rise of the “home barista”, more people than ever are looking for a machine that can easily replicate café-quality beverages. To learn more about how home espresso machines have evolved, I spoke to two experts from Gruppo Cimbali : Filippo Mazzoni and Maria Vittoria Rinaldi.

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EATER

APRIL 13, 2022

Carmen Chan. Helen Cho has worked with Anthony Bourdain, W. Kamau Bell, David Letterman, and Lisa Ling. Here’s how she became a television showrunner. In How I Got My Job , folks from across the food and restaurant industry answer Eater’s questions about, well, how they got their job. Today’s installment: Helen Cho. Helen Cho didn’t originally set out to work in food television, but not long after she left film school, she found herself working on some of the industry’s most important docu-trave

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 13, 2022

As the impact of the pandemic continues, restaurants face constant and evolving operational challenges. At the end of 2021, four out of five restaurants reported facing a staffing shortage due to reduced operating hours and dining capacity. A fragmented supply chain is also increasing ingredient costs, leading restaurants to balance staff churn with a changing menu to keep revenue consistent.

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 12, 2022

Around the world, many consumers prefer to drink coffee which contains less caffeine. For some, it’s essential. Typically, people looking to minimise their caffeine intake opt for decaf coffee, where most of the caffeine is removed. Decaffeination usually involves soaking green beans in water, before passing them through several filters to remove the caffeine.

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Thrive POS

APRIL 13, 2022

Buy a new pizza place using Thrive Pizza Point-of-Sale? First of all, congrats! We are committed to helping you build this business. Second, you may be feeling a little uncertain about what changes you need to make to your point-of-sale and credit card processing accounts.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 11, 2022

As Americans reach for a potential post-pandemic world, the restaurant industry continues to reel from two years of economic, staffing and supply chain chaos. Of these, one of the biggest challenges facing independent, franchised and fast-casual restaurants is staffing. According to the 2022 State of the Restaurant Industry report from the National Restaurant Association, more than half of restaurant operators believe it will be a year or more before business conditions return to normal, with on

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Next Restaurants

APRIL 15, 2022

Did you know that 90% of guests research a restaurant on the internet before visiting it? . What’s more, 57% of these folks view the restaurants’ websites before choosing the one they should visit. In other words, if a new customer arrives at your doorstep, they most likely found out about you on the web. So, what made them choose you over the others?

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Bottleneck Management

APRIL 11, 2022

2021 Core Four Awards. Each year, Bottleneck Management recognizes employees who demonstrate the best representation of our four core values; understand, support, empower and enjoy. The Core Four Award goes to one Heart of House team member, one Front of House team member, and one Home Office team member. The 2021 award winners are Colter Potts, Luis Zambrano, and Hector Soteno.

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EATER

APRIL 12, 2022

Walwala Jalalzay made it out of Afghanistan. Now she’s serving fellow refugees quintessential dishes from the home they left behind. There are no signs or boards to help find the Kabul-Shengjin Cafe. The small Afghan restaurant is tucked away at the south end of a five-kilometer stretch of the Shengjin Beach, in a quiet little coastal town by the Adriatic Sea in Albania.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 11, 2022

Our previous articles in MRM have centered on medical plan strategies for restaurants, how to build plans that are attractive to the workforce and manage those inherent costs. This article focuses on current trends in the time-away space and employee wellbeing. In addition to cost considerations, efforts to structure these types of benefits are complicated by compliance requirements and the challenge of communicating and promoting a positive employee experience.

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The Wine Knitter

APRIL 10, 2022

​Whether celebrating Easter, Passover, or a “just because” moment, I have a few wines and recipes to grace your table and please your palate. Easter Jean-Luc Colombo Cornas “Terres Brûlées” 2018 Photo credit: Penny Weiss Jean-Luc Colombo winery is located in the northern appellation of Cornas in the Rhône Valley, France.

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Restaurant Den

APRIL 13, 2022

A restaurant’s success is often only seen from the front-of-house. The delicious food, extravagant menus, and mood setting decor all play a role in that success. However, an efficient back-office is just as important. Restaurant accounting management software helps to take care of your financial information and to ensure that your restaurant is remaining profitable. […].

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EATER

APRIL 14, 2022

Lola Landa in front of Kafe Jerusalem | Kafe Jerusalem. Lola Landa, owner of Lviv’s Kafe Jerusalem, adjusts to a new normal during wartime: serving her customers while volunteering to feed Ukraine’s refugees Kafe Jerusalem has been a staple in Lviv, a city in western Ukraine, for the last 14 years. The cafe specializes in Jewish cuisines, encompassing dishes from Ashkenazi and Sephardic communities across Europe and the Middle East.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 14, 2022

Go into the grocery store and you can find many QSRs’ signatures items on shelves and in freezers – everything from sauces to appetizers to make-it-yourself-at-home ingredients. You can also walk into a trendy clothing retailer and find t-shirts from QSRs with both vintage and current logos. In line at Dunkin’, you can pick up mugs, keychains and shirts along with a French cruller and coffee.

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Sculpture Hospitality

APRIL 12, 2022

One of the most important steps in improving your bar’s profitability is to implement an effective bar inventory management program. The problem is, inventory management can be a bar manager’s worst nightmare.

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Foodable

APRIL 12, 2022

Listen to "202. Bitcoin Set to Invade Restaurant Payments" on Spreaker. Mobile payment app Strike has partnered with Shopify, alternative payment provider Blackhawk Network, and point-of-sale supplier NCR to create a new US payment system that allows merchants to quickly receive payments in dollars after people pay with crypto. My latest video on this announcement.

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EATER

APRIL 13, 2022

Netflix. Netflix’s latest hit is a 30-year-old Japanese television show where parents trust their toddlers to go it alone I’ve spent the better part of two weekends watching young Japanese children run mundane errands, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Old Enough (marketed as Hajimete no Otsukai , or “My First Errand,” in Japan), is a recent viral sensation on Netflix — but it’s been a phenomenon in Japan for 30 years, where something like a fifth of the population tunes in each broadcast.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 12, 2022

Revenue Management Solutions just released its Q1 2022 consumer sentiment survey, and it appears the industry’s concerns have moved beyond the pandemic. A year ago, the restaurant industry was hopeful as it anticipated the vaccine rollout. Consumers, tired of social distancing and ready to shed their ‘pandemic pod,’ were eager to get out.

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Bizimply

APRIL 13, 2022

It’s 2022 and employee scheduling software is taking over. Do you recognise the importance of an employee scheduling software? The post Employee Scheduling Software and Why You Need It appeared first on Bizimply.

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The Restaurant Group

APRIL 15, 2022

How Restaurant Branding Affects Business. There’s no doubt that restaurant branding is essential. It can mean the difference between becoming a dining establishment of choice and a restaurant that struggles to attract customers. But what exactly goes into restaurant branding? And how can business owners make sure they’re doing it right? In this blog post, we discuss the importance of restaurant branding and how it can help you create a successful dining brand for your business.

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EATER

APRIL 14, 2022

Increasingly, food is fashion. And that now counts your signature scent. | Nat Belkov/Eater. Restaurant- and food-inspired fragrances are a sensory feast. Literally. In March, indie perfume brand D.S. & Durga launched an eau de parfum called Bistro Waters , inspired by ’90s-era restaurants in NYC. There’s a base of basil, nutmeg, and moss water, with a heart of mandarin, green pepper, and pea flower, finished off with top notes of lime flower, coriander seed, and pear.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 15, 2022

Instagram has become one of the most popular social media platforms for marketing. From start-ups to the leading international brands all put a lot of emphasis on Instagram marketing to boost their marketing efforts. We have all taken pictures of neatly presented dishes from our favorite restaurants to post on Instagram, so it makes perfect sense for restaurants to prioritize Instagram as a marketing channel.

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Goliath Consulting

APRIL 11, 2022

Spring is still blooming, but summer food trends are brewing. Restaurant chefs are ready to reconnect with their kitchen to create new recipes for the steaming hot weather in the next few months. However, due to supply chain issues and food shortages, chefs are doing their best to work with what they have. Thanks to social media, there are new food hacks, and you can always find a trending food item or recipe there.

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Ken Burgin

APRIL 10, 2022

In this podcast, Ken Burgin talks with Mark Khoder from YourSocialChef. He develops and manages social media and marketing campaigns for a wide variety of cafes, restaurants and food brands. As you will hear in the discussion, he is 100% focused on getting the best return on investment, to help your brand and income grow. There’s no shortage of social media options, and it’s easy to be excited by the latest ‘shiny object’ – but the result is often chaos, and disappo

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EATER

APRIL 13, 2022

Howard Schultz. | Stephen Brashear/Getty Images. The Starbucks CEO reportedly confronted a unionizing barista at a Long Beach, California meeting This week, the Starbucks union wave continued its sweep across the country with a victory at three newly unionized stores in Ithaca, New York. Now, 16 Starbucks locations across the country have voted to unionize, and more than 150 more will soon hold votes on whether to unionize.

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Foodable

APRIL 14, 2022

Listen to "106. A Company That Innovates The Future of Food | The Culinary Edge" on Spreaker. The Fast Casual Nation Podcast offers exclusive interviews with experts ranging from top chefs and brand makers to executives and restaurants who work in one of the fastest-growing segments of the restaurant industry. In this episode, Pepe chats with Graham Humphreys, Chief Executive Officer, and Haley Kabus, Associate Director of Strategy at The Culinary Edge , about creating new fast casual concepts,

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Rocket Fuel

APRIL 13, 2022

Few businesses collect and analyze more data than QSRs. With just about every aspect of your operation comes data – from your POS, payroll, and scheduling systems, to back-of-house and inventory, and everything in between. In fact, according to the National Restaurant Association, the average restaurant relies on 10-19 unique technology systems (that’s a lot!

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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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