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Three Key Advantages of Cloud-Based Reporting

Focus POS

In today’s competitive and data-driven environment, businesses of all types are discovering the benefits of the cloud. If you’re a restaurant franchise manager with multiple locations, coordinating all of your sales, labor, and other data from all stores can be a major headache. A point of sale (POS) solution that includes cloud-based reporting can make those tasks so much easier.

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10 Menu Takeaways from May We Suggest by Alison Pearlman

Open for Business

Do menus sway diners? In May We Suggest: Restaurant Menus and the Art of Persuasion , cultural critic and art history professor Alison Pearlman explores the topic of menus. She delves into past research, visits restaurants and surveys 60+ restaurant menus to determine how menus influence the dining experience. Menus are powerful marketing tools. Although the book is not a business or restaurant management guide, there is a lot of wisdom in it for restaurateurs.

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What to Do When the Health Inspector Comes Knocking

Sculpture Hospitality

A visit from the health inspector can be stressful even if you stay on top of health concerns by following a proactive food safety plan and scheduling regular cleanings.

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Restaurant Labor Costs: How to Calculate & Optimize Your Staffing Expense

Notch

Anyone who works in the restaurant business knows how tough it can be to make a living in an industry where profit margins tend to hover at only around 6%. With margins so thin, it’s important to control every cost as carefully as possible. That includes the labor cost percentage for your restaurant. Depending on the type of restaurant you run, it’s unavoidable that the cost of labor for all your staff will be one of your largest expenses — that’s true for most restaurants.

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

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.

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Improving Employee Performance: Your Staff & Your POS System

Thrive POS

A delivery restaurant’s point-of-sale system is one of its most important tools. As with any tool, proper training and usage result in higher efficiency and more effective management. That being said, a tool is only as good as its operator. But is it worth the time it will take to train your staff?

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MURTEC: A Conference Changing the Way Restaurant Operators Look at Technology

Hot Schedules

Around the 3rd Century B.C., a Greek philosopher created the idea of a simple machine. Its sole purpose was to increase output force by leveraging simple tools, like a lever or pulley. And by measuring the amount of increased force, we were able to identify the mechanical advantage of using a simple machine. We found, over time, that adding in the right tools into our personal and work lives made movement more intentional and powerful.

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Restaurant Labor Costs: How to Calculate & Optimize Your Staffing Expense

Notch

Anyone who works in the restaurant business knows how tough it can be to make a living in an industry where profit margins tend to hover at only around 6%. With margins so thin, it’s important to control every cost as carefully as possible. That includes the labor cost percentage for your restaurant. Depending on the type of restaurant you run, it’s unavoidable that the cost of labor for all your staff will be one of your largest expenses — that’s true for most restaurants.

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Restaurant Inventory Software Tips

The Restaurant Expert

Restaurant inventory software is a fast and efficient way to get a better handle on your restaurant inventory processes. If you’ve tried using the inventory module in your POS system and ended up with nothing more than a countdown of what you have sold, then you know the frustration of overpromising. Watch this video or read below to learn what restaurant inventory software should do for your restaurant.

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How to Reverse Margin Erosion with Menu Engineering

Aaron Allen & Associates

Margins are being compressed for restaurants and foodservice operators around the world. Nearly every geography, cuisine, and operating model is being hit with increased costs relative to rent, labor, commodities, demands of modernization, competitive pricing and promotional tactics designed to take share, and a more fickle and demanding consumer with rapidly evolving dining behaviors.

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How Restaurants Can Take Full Advantage of Instagram

Dot It

Great food presented well is a feast for all the senses. Instagram takes visual appeal to a higher level. Diners are whipping out smartphones to photograph their food before eating, and these photos are being sent to cyberspace for all to see. An estimated sixty-nine percent of millennials (young adults aged 19-26) routinely take pictures [ ] The post How Restaurants Can Take Full Advantage of Instagram appeared first on Dot It.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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Satori Oysters Flavor

Chef's Resources

Satori Oysters See image licensing info Satori Oysters are cultivated in the pristine waters off of Denman Island in Baynes Sound on the eastern side of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. They are grown by Greg & Hollie Wood who run the family owned business and have been cultivating oysters since 1996 and they are Ocean […]. The post Satori Oysters Flavor appeared first on Chefs Resources.

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RC Leadership Conference Interview with Tony Chapman

Embrace the Suck

I was very honored to be interviewed by Tony Chapman at the recent Restaurants Canada Leadership Conference in Toronto. Tony is a super dynamic speaker and host across mainstream media. His knapsack is filled with thirty years of experience, as an entrepreneur whose agencies developed award winning go to market and branding strategies across all industry sectors.

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Disgusting Food Museum, Malmö

Gastro Gays

In paid collaboration with Malmö Town “Your ticket also doubles up as a sick bag,” the ticket attendant chimes cheerily in our direction as we walk in. Only open in late 2018, the Disgusting Food… The post Disgusting Food Museum, Malmö appeared first on GastroGays.

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11 Ways To Boost Your HR In Hospitality

Harver Hospitality

How to make sure that your hospitality employees are productive, engaged and, above all, happy? Check out these 11 ways to boost your HR in hospitality!

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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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Today’s Chip Paper #32 – 11 March 2019

Gastro Gays

No new openings to report, TG. But in all seriousness, it’s refreshing to have a line-up of players from long-established and recently refreshed to one or two new-ish names on the scene in this week’s… The post Today’s Chip Paper #32 – 11 March 2019 appeared first on GastroGays.

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The Wilds, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford | March Just Ask Restaurant of the Month [SPON]

Gastro Gays

“Destination” is a word that keeps coming up as we sit down with Paula and Simon, owners of The Wilds in Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. Housed within a former convent school, later a hospital until it… The post The Wilds, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford | March Just Ask Restaurant of the Month [SPON] appeared first on GastroGays.