7 Shifts

MARCH 30, 2022

After two years of only being able to order takeout and having to wear a mask when not at the table, restaurants are poised to bounce back in 2022. The National Restaurant Association projects restaurant sales will hit $898 billion this year -more than $200 billion more than in 2021. Diners are ready to re-embrace their favorite restaurants, as well as try some new places that opened in the past couple of years.

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Food Business

APRIL 1, 2022

Kelly Pace Hayes owns Pace and Love Marketing. She is a marketing consultant. She shares her mini bio, and describes the breadth of experience she has and how she now uses her experience. She has helped both small food businesses and large restaurant groups grow. She has clients across many industries now. She has the skills of a nimble individually run marketing company who worked at an agency, so can incorporate those processes into Pace and Love.

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Culinary Cues

MARCH 26, 2022

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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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 1, 2022

It’s a restaurant operator’s worst nightmare. You have stores full of patrons, and no way to collect their money because the POS system has been hijacked by ransomware. That’s how the McMenamins restaurant and hospitality chain closed out 2021, a banner year for ransomware attacks. The bad news is that according to most predictions , 2022 will be worse as gangs organize and focus on SMBs.

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Perfect Daily Grind

MARCH 30, 2022

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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Sling

MARCH 26, 2022

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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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 28, 2022

We all have our fingers crossed that we’ve gotten through the worst of the pandemic. It certainly feels like better days are ahead for the restaurant industry. Restaurateurs seem to be coming out of a survival mode mindset and beginning to evaluate what’s next. What changes that may have seemed temporary should be made permanent? What trends can be adopted to better serve guest preferences?

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Perfect Daily Grind

MARCH 30, 2022

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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Sante

MARCH 29, 2022

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

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Ken Burgin

MARCH 27, 2022

We expect a lot from chefs – not only to manage production and service, but keep to a budget, organise a team of people and handle safety issues, changing food trends, menu design & engineering, plus social media and a bit of marketing. It’s a big ask, especially when they may not have had training beyond hands-on experience with another chef.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 31, 2022

To get a pulse on QSR trends in 2022, Modern Restaurant Management magazine reached out to David Vance, Vice President of QSR at Mood Media, an on-premise media solutions company dedicated to elevating the customer experience. Joining Mood in 2018, he currently oversees the QSR team, focused on North America Account Management efforts. How is QSR ownership changing?

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Perfect Daily Grind

MARCH 28, 2022

Coffee has a long history in Iran. Since the 16th century, coffee has been popular across the country. However, as the nation’s cultural and political landscape has changed over the past few centuries, so too has its coffee culture. As a result, the Iranian coffee industry has a uniquely rich mix of the traditional and the modern when it comes to brewing and consuming coffee.

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Restaurant365

MARCH 30, 2022

6 signs it’s time to take the leap from bookkeeping to accounting software. As a restaurant operator, you are the backbone of the restaurant. You most likely started out passionate about serving people on their special days and being a part of creating memories for your patrons. But on a Monday morning when you arrive early to the back office to a pile of invoices waiting to be processed and last night’s food inventory spreadsheet is still sitting on the clipboard waiting to be entered, you migh

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Goliath Consulting

MARCH 28, 2022

Since the pandemic, restaurants and other businesses have adapted to many changes throughout the years, and this includes payment methods. The most common ways of paying are through cash, credit card, or debit. However, this has changed in recent years. The pandemic caused many restaurant and fast-food owners to think of new ways to incorporate safety measures when coming in close contact with customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 29, 2022

In a world where 93 percent of consumers rely on online reviews to decide where to spend, per a Igniyte meta-report , negative reviews can present a genuine threat to your business. Especially so for consumers trying to figure out which restaurant to try next. Unfortunately, fake reviews are common, and your need to deal with them is more likely a “when” than an “if.” Actual figures vary per sector as well as platform type.

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Typsy

MARCH 28, 2022

What is the first thought that comes to mind when talking about an aggressive customer? The stereotype of a privileged person who demands proper service, screaming and shouting; without concern for the hospitality staff serving them. Working in the hospitality sector you will encounter customers who either talk directly to you or the manager or since the internet has made it possible, leave negative reviews affecting the business and your growth professionally.

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EATER

MARCH 30, 2022

Vendor Rigoberto Morales sells chicharrones in LA’s Pinata District in 2019. | Agustin Paullier/AFP via Getty Images. Street vending is technically legal in Los Angeles, but vendors say landing a permit is often out of reach This story was originally published on Civil Eats. Outside the Big Saver Foods market in the small Los Angeles neighborhood of El Sereno, a cluster of sidewalk vendors wait in the parking lot for hungry customers to finish their shopping and stop by for a pupusa or an agua f

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Lady Boss Blogger

MARCH 31, 2022

Having good graphics is so important for businesses. Technology is so prevalent in today’s society. Therefore, it is a necessity that your business is online and has an online presence. For instance, having an up-to-date website and social media pages is an amazing way to advertise your products to a bigger audience. There is no […]. The post Where To Find The Best Graphics For Your Business appeared first on LadyBossBlogger.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 30, 2022

Restaurants are making use of workflow automation to increase efficiency in numerous ways inlcuding customer service automation and sales and marketing automation. Automating customer service tasks helps to improve the customer experience. Not only does this boost your business reputation, but it also improves customer retention. 65 percent of customer service experts say that most feedback-gathering is automated.

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Restaurant Den

MARCH 31, 2022

Pre-pandemic, your restaurant’s front-of-house was just what your guests saw when they visited your restaurant. It was everything from your dining room to the hostess booth, employees, and open kitchen space. Today, your front-of-house covers everywhere a diner might interact with your restaurant before they’re sat at a table. Tomorrow’s most successful restaurants will create […].

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Restaurant Technology Guys

MARCH 27, 2022

Join Jeremy and special guests Meredith Sandland and Carl Orsbourn. Meredith Sandland & Carl Orsbourn are authors of the recently published Delivering the Digital Restaurant as they join host Jeremy Julian to talk restaurant digitization. Consumers are demanding change. Although the most obvious change is customer-facing ordering UI/UX, the changes are reverberating throughout restaurants as they race to update their entire operating model.

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Foodable

MARCH 29, 2022

Listen to "200. Has Private Equity Money Dried up for Restaurants?" on Spreaker. After more than a year of a bear market in innovation stocks that are not part of broad-based public equity benchmarks, we believe Instacart’s move marks the first major publicly announced valuation cut by a private startup. One of its public competitors, DoorDash, DASH on the NYSE, also has dropped roughly 40% since March 2021.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 31, 2022

Pooja S. Nair, a partner at Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP compiles recent legal news affecting the restaurant, food and beverage and hospitality industries for Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine. Litigation. Insurance Coverage for COVID Claims Largely Rejected by Appellate Courts : Throughout the country, appellate courts are reviewing insurance coverage lawsuits brought by restaurants who were forced to close due to COVID-19 pandemic shutdown orders.

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Restaurant Den

MARCH 31, 2022

Pre-pandemic, your restaurant’s front-of-house was just what your guests saw when they visited your restaurant. It was everything from your dining room to the hostess booth, employees, and open kitchen space. Today, your front-of-house covers everywhere a diner might interact with your restaurant before they’re sat at a table. Tomorrow’s most successful restaurants will create […].

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Bizimply

MARCH 29, 2022

It’s always important to have a handle on your labour cost. Find out how you can use data to reduce labour costs and increase productivity. The post How to Reduce Labour Costs Using Your Business Data appeared first on Bizimply.

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The Eat Restaurant

MARCH 31, 2022

Every morning, managers have to kickstart their restaurant for a long day of work to make sure that the day goes as smoothly and efficiently as possible. This involves making sure that every nook and corner of the restaurant is in working order, any issues have been identified and handled, and the staff is ready to go. All this has to be done before the doors of the restaurant open for the day.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 28, 2022

Despite the challenges that have been brought upon the restaurant landscape these past several years, the industry has thrived with innovation across all categories. As a result, the level of competition between foodservice brands looking to expand their footprints has naturally increased. My team quickly learned that diversifying our portfolio with different real estate models was a critical part of adapting to the ever-evolving market.

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The Restaurant Times

MARCH 31, 2022

Tourism is a crucial part of Bahrain’s economy. Every year around 12 million tourists come to the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – an economic union of the gulf countries of which Bahrain is also a part. . The contribution of tourism clocks around 7% of Bahrain’s GDP and is expected to increase to 11% by 2028. Accordingly, Bahrain is actively promoting tourism-based sectors, offering diversified hospitality, and developing an increasing variety of restaurant and entertainment options

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Bizimply

APRIL 1, 2022

The UK minimum wage will increase in 2022, which will have a huge effect on the hospitality industry. Learn what businesses should do to reduce its impacts. The post UK Minimum Wage 2022: How It Affects Your Business appeared first on Bizimply.

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The Eat Restaurant

MARCH 28, 2022

Most new restaurants don’t make it across the 5-year mark. While there are many contributing factors, high costs play a huge role in the failure of restaurants.

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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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