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Nine Critical HR and Payroll Steps to Prepare Your Restaurant for 2025

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Focus on: Hiring for Culture Fit : Seek candidates who align with your restaurant’s values by emphasizing character and attitude over experience when interviewing. Bonus Tip : Set a recurring calendar reminder to conduct quarterly payroll audits in 2025 so you can catch discrepancies even earlier.

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From Ghost Kitchens to Living Kitchens: A New Vision for Food Service’s Next Great Space

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If your cooks are mostly fulfilling off-site orders, you can do away with niceties like a slick front of house, visual merchandising, and a location with hungry walk-ins. Managing high turnover , training new hires, and maintaining morale are known issues in food service. But in a ghost kitchen, employees are the customer.

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Publish Your Website with These Best Restaurant Website Builders

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Here are a few things to consider: The pros and cons of the DIY approach to restaurant website design Pros: Making your own website for your restaurant is much more affordable than hiring professional help. Hiring a website designer or developer usually starts at $1k to customize a template or $10k to build a completely custom website.

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Boost Your Restaurant Business with Five Local Marketing Tips

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You can also expect fresher and higher quality merchandise because the food won’t have to stay in transit for long. For example, most restaurants are partnering or subscribing with food delivery apps, like Food Panda, so you may not need to hire your own delivery personnel.

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How to Open a Coffee Shop: The Ultimate Guide

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In this guide, we'll go through everything you need to open a new coffee shop, from market research to buying coffee to hiring the best team. Staffing: Find, Hire, and Schedule. YOu can do this yourself with software like SmartDraw , or hire a restaurant architect to help you devise it. Staffing: Find, Hire, and Schedule.

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Ultimate Restaurant Website Design Guide for Beginners

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Restaurant website design: Taking a DIY approach vs. hiring a web development team Consider whether you want to build your restaurant's website or hire someone to do it for you. Do I have the budget to hire a web development team? Consider these key questions: Do I have the skills to complete this project?

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How Walmart Got Its Hands on the Coolest Pantry Brands

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By 2023, after Fly By Jing had grown, solidifying its supply chain and hiring more employees, Gao had decided she was ready for Walmart. Gao had to focus on building what she calls a “world-class supply chain” to ensure that she could procure enough high-quality spices to stock thousands of new stores with her product.

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