Social Hospitality

DECEMBER 11, 2017

There is no tool more powerful than storytelling, and Rob Walker wanted nothing but to prove it. In 2009, he bought several objects from eBay and asked 100 creative writers to invent stories about $128.74 worth of items to see if the stories can transform insignificant objects into significant ones. In case you’re wondering how the storytelling experiment went: $3,612.51 net profit of the items being sold.

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The Restaurant Coach University

JANUARY 29, 2017

Originally posted on Foodable TV Network November 7, 2016. By Donald Burns, Foodable Industry Expert. When your restaurant is running like a world championship team, everything is amazing. All the training, all the hard work, all the time fine-tuning your team and brand are paying off. You’re communicating, working together for a shared vision and mission.

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Food Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Marisa Dobson is guest blogger this month. She is the founder & principal of Scintillate, a publicity and marketing consultancy that specializes in food & lifestyle clients. For over ten years, she's worked with professional creatives to turn their passions into passion projects. Visit www.marisadobson.com or follow her on Instagram: @marisa_dobson.

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Indoor Media

JULY 27, 2017

When you own a growing restaurant, every day you strive to create a friendly atmosphere and be a part of your customers’ daily routines or perhaps even lifelong memories. To continue doing what you love, you need to stay on top of the latest in your industry and ways to increase profits. This includes new restaurant marketing ideas and even operational tips.

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Harbor Touch

JUNE 6, 2017

5.0. 10. 10 Tips On How To Open a New Restaurant. 1. Choose Your Restaurant Concept. The first consideration when starting and opening a new restaurant is to pick your idea and your niche. Is your opening a restaurant to follow your passion or to make the most money possible with high margin products? Are you considering opening a farm-to-table type environment?

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Restaurant Clicks

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Whether your restaurant is opening soon or has been open for some time, you’ll need to make some decisions on hiring an internal marketing team. How do you hire the right person to help your business grow? Too many people applying for marketing jobs believe posting on instagram and snap chat qualifies them as a marketing director. Remember, the most important thing is hiring someone for your restaurant who knows what to do and how to do it.

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Gourmet Marketing

DECEMBER 6, 2017

We live in a fast-paced world. Many consumers today don’t want to just browse in-store or wait around to be served. They’re often looking to get in, get out, and move on with their busy day. As result, efficiency has never been more crucial to a successful restaurant operation. Keep the customer waiting, and just like that, you could end up with a bad review.

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eZee Burrp

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Running a restaurant includes considering a myriad of factors. You need to hire and manage a team, you need to make them work together, you need to maintain the taste of the food you offer, you need to make your guests happy, and all the while; you also need to ensure that you’re in line… The post 9 reasons you need to change your restaurant POS in 2018 appeared first on eZee Burrp Blog.

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Island Media Management

AUGUST 15, 2017

One of the most common obstacles we encounter is finding the right blog topics to boost SEO and at the same time create an informative post. In the article this week, we will run through how to brainstorm blog topics, how to create unique ones, find out if your blog topics are accomplishing your business’ goals, and how to not run out of ideas. Blogs are a necessity when it comes to SEO.

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Sustainability Beyond the Plate

MARCH 31, 2017

Richard Young, Director of Education. I was recently invited to moderate a panel on Foodservice Maintenance and Repair at the Gas Foodservice Equipment Network’s (GFEN) Commercial Foodservice Workshop. The meeting was held at Piedmont Natural Gas’ (PNG) Demonstration Kitchen located in PNG’s John H. Maxheim Natural Gas Technology Center.

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TastyIgniter

JANUARY 19, 2017

Customer experience and customer satisfaction is vital for any restaurant to be a success. After all, no-one wants to return to a restaurant if they receive poor levels of service.

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The Restaurant Coach University

MARCH 2, 2017

When business is slow, many restaurants turn to discounts and coupons in order to get more people through the door. However, discounting is rarely an effective strategy for developing regular customers, and can even end up hurting your business. We spoke to Donald Burns (aka The Restaurant Coach™) to learn why loyalty programs are a much wiser path to success than giving away your product.

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Food Business

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Communication and the Ideal Millennial Workplace: ATTRACTING AND RETAINING YOUNG TALENT IN YOUR FOOD SERVICE ENDEAVOR Guest Blog by Abbie Garcia By the year 2020 millennials will make up 40% of the overall workforce, so it’s wildly important to the future success of your business that you understand how to go about attracting and retaining members of this oft-written of and just as frequently misunderstood demographic.

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Indoor Media

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Every business owner has to start somewhere. IndoorMedia’s CEO, Doug Endsley, started his career working in fast food and moved on to found the nation’s largest in-store advertising company. In our Business Growth Leadership Series , Doug discusses the events that led to his current success and how today’s entrepreneurs can learn from his decades of experience.

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Gecko Hospitality

OCTOBER 6, 2017

A “Restaurant Manager” is much more of a broad job description than some people may think. There are so many different types of restaurants, from Quick Service (QSR), focusing on speed of service and inexpensive food items – to Fine Dining restaurants, where it’s all about “wining and dining” the guests – and of course, everything else in between. What type of restaurant management career do you want to build for yourself?

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Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 23, 2017

When it comes to social media marketing for restaurants, how can you tell if you are doing it right or not? We analyzed dozens of restaurants to see why some are killing it with social media and others are struggling. All the data points to a few key differences in how they organize the process plus the content. It is actually a lot easier than you might think.

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Bermar America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

When a reputable restaurateur and steak house aficionado is wowed by a wine preservation system, that says a lot about the technology on display. So, when Dean Laplant of DC Steak House, Arizona , purchased Le Verre de Vin Twin Pod Bar , he made it the focal point of his intimate wine bar and seized the opportunity to delight his guests with an elevated wine by the glass service.

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Tundra Restaurant Suppkly

MAY 3, 2017

Here in the states, the debate for and against the tipping system in the foodservice industry will always be a point of contention. But I’m not here to talk about that. Instead, let’s talk about how to make the best of the system now—like how to make bigger tips. Here at Tundra Restaurant Supply , many of us have worked in the restaurant industry at one time or another as hosts, servers, managers, chefs and even service technicians.

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24/7 Waiter

APRIL 14, 2017

Proper restaurant management is far more than just making out the schedule for your workers. While the day-to-day tasks are certainly important as part of management, and they should never be ignored or put on the back burner. However, for restaurant management to be truly effective, it needs to encompass many other elements. The following, which includes some of those daily tasks, as well as bigger picture elements, are some of the most important things the restaurant owner and management staff

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Island Media Management

AUGUST 15, 2017

One of the most common obstacles we encounter is finding the right blog topics to boost SEO and at the same time create an informative post. In the article this week, we will run through how to brainstorm blog topics, how to create unique ones, find out if your blog topics are accomplishing your business’ goals, and how to not run out of ideas. Blogs are a necessity when it comes to SEO.

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Sustainability Beyond the Plate

JUNE 30, 2017

Richard Young, Director of Education. The Food Service Tecnology Center (FSTC) held two educational seminars in June covering the relationship between food and energy waste. The seminar at the PG&E facility in San Ramon featured presentations from the FSTC’s Richard Young and Claudia Pingatore who were joined by guest speakers Samantha Sommers ( ReThink Disposable ), Mike Goldblatt ( Copia ), Kerry Flickner ( Foodservice Sustainability Solutions ), and Anne Baker & Kimberly Lam ( Repub

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TastyIgniter

OCTOBER 12, 2017

There are a variety of ways that local restaurants can try to promote themselves and their menus. Social media, promotions, events and of course, the good old fashioned word of mouth.

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The Restaurant Coach University

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

There’s only one reason. There’s only one reason why your restaurant will fail. However, first let me tell you all the reasons it won’t. It’s not your business partners. It’s not your staff. It’s not your market. It’s not your spouse. It’s not your competition. It’s not your price point. It’s not even who is currently president.

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Food Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Understanding and keeping up with your businesses health is, frankly, necessary to your business success. It's important to know how various benchmarks work for your specific restaurant, cafe or brewery. Prime costs benchmark is 60% (quick serve) and 65% (restaurant). Now, you might be reading this and saying, "Now, remind me, what is prime cost again?

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Indoor Media

DECEMBER 21, 2017

New restaurants face an uphill climb to succeed. One recent study found that 17 percent of startup restaurants fail within the first year. Though this is a more encouraging statistic than previous gloom-and-doom numbers that pegged first-year failure rates well beyond 50 percent, it provides little solace to entrepreneurs who know that everything about their restaurants must be perfect from the start to make it beyond 12 months.

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Gourmet Marketing

DECEMBER 26, 2017

It’s important to develop your online presence as a restaurant. Thus, you should be aware of the top restaurant review blogs, and build strategic partnerships with the right ones. These blogs have influence over consumers. They are tastemakers. Their recommendations can have significant sway over their readers and where they have their next meal. Right now, consumers are tight with their money, and they don’t want to pay for a subpar meal.

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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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Restaurant Clicks

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Have you ever wondered why some restaurants show up in the three maps results for Google searches and maybe yours does not? Ranking your restaurant in that three pack is a sure way to generate a lot more customers for your business. There is a secret recipe to rank higher in the maps. 1. Claim and Optimize Your Google Business Page. The Google Maps engine is based of the Google My Business (GMB) directory/pages.

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Bermar America

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sparkling wines are expected to continue their growth this season and well into 2018. At Bermar America, we’re excited that customer demand has moved a trend into a sustained growth opportunity for operators of wine-by-the-glass programs. We have seen a marked increase in demand from savvy operators who are seeking to serve an enticing range of sparkling wines.

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eZee Burrp

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Four user privilege options available for splitting of receipt Manage guest database for iMenu 6.1.207.004 The post Improved billing option, ability to maintain guest database and many more updates appeared first on eZee Burrp Blog.

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24/7 Waiter

MARCH 26, 2017

For your restaurant business to be a success, you need customers that want to keep returning to your establishment and that want to tell everyone about how great it is. The only way that you can accomplish this is by keeping those customers happy. The following are some tips you will want to adopt for your restaurant if you haven’t already. Have a Friendly Staff.

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