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Revolutionizing Restaurants: Embracing Tech Solutions in a Challenging Labor Market

Modern Restaurant Management

Inventory management tools, for example, enable the real-time tracking of food stock, alerting staff to use items before they spoil and reducing waste. Back-office digital innovations are also helping restaurants manage costs and make the most of their workforce. Staffing and workforce management tools are also proving useful.

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2025 Outlook: Experts Weigh In on Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

Steady Online Ordering Brings Food Waste, Donations to the Forefront of Priorities Ordering food online increases restaurant sales, but it also can potentially increase wasted food if proactive measures aren’t taken – for both the business and consumers at home.

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5 Practical Steps To Building A Restaurant Marketing Budget

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Building a restaurant marketing budget can feel overwhelming. With tight margins, unpredictable cash flow, and endless marketing options, its hard to know how much to spendor where to spend it. Creating an effective marketing budget doesnt have to be all that complicated. The good news?

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How To: Social Media Marketing in the Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

The idea of using social media marketing to attract customers, all the while managing inventory and payroll, can be exhausting. A well-thought-out social media marketing strategy can earn you additional customers and increase your overall income. Marketers tend to suggest 1 promotion for every 8-10 posts. And with what networks?

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your ABM Strategy

For marketing teams to develop a successful account-based marketing strategy, they need to ensure good data is housed within its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. According to Forrester Research, only 8% of marketing professionals have confidence that their data is 90-100% accurate.

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How Restaurants Can Manage Food Costs During Disruptions

Modern Restaurant Management

Embracing the "just-in-time" philosophy, which involves ordering perishable ingredients in smaller quantities and more frequently to reduce waste, free up storage space, and ensure every ingredient is at peak freshness when it hits the plate. It's a living, breathing asset that requires careful attention to control costs under.

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Gen Z Wants More Than Good Food — Here’s How to Keep Them Coming Back

Modern Restaurant Management

For example, we have partnered with the cause-marketing program GiftAMeal, which turns a customer engagement into real-world impact — every photo shared results in a donation to the local food bank. A true commitment to sustainable development further aligns with Gen Z’s demand for social and environmental responsibility.

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3 Mistakes Organizations Make While Developing ABM Programs

The benefits of Account-Based Marketing are clear, so what’s holding B2B professionals back? From building an account universe to understanding to orchestrating sales and marketing alignment around touchpoint and messaging, there are a number of variables to consider before launching a program.

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The 5 Stages of Account-Based Marketing — and How to Win Them All

The benefits of account-based marketing are clear: internal alignment, shorter sales cycles, higher conversion rates. And yet only 43% of marketers are completely satisfied with the quality of their data. And yet only 43% of marketers are completely satisfied with the quality of their data.

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The Operator’s Guide to Productivity in a Short Staffed World

Minimizing wasted effort. But in this job market, how can you foster a more productive and desirable workplace? Driving productivity in your stores, the field, and HQ with the employees you have today means: Accomplishing more with fewer people. Improving the consistency of work.