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How to Calculate and Improve Your Bar’s Profit Margin

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Locally sourced beer is also a great way to differentiate your bar from competitors. Review your inventory and spot areas where there’s over-ordering and spoilage, especially for perishable items like food and garnishes. Mobile bars are a viable option as well, allowing you to expand your reach and add a revenue stream.

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How to Avoid the Top Seven Restaurant Inventory Management Mistakes

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Using par levels based on real usage and not just a “guess” creates more accurate orders. Employees designated as receivers should be able to both recognize various quality levels of merchandise and be trained how to handle the necessary paperwork and any digital recordkeeping. Use the counts to create accurate par levels.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

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Limited-service restaurants (those in quick service and fast casual) had a sharp acceleration in their guest check growth, as consumers likely shifted to larger off-premise orders to feed multiple people at home. Consumers are still very willing to get mobile and visit your stores for pick-up.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

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In the next year, this role will also include helping them with order management during peak times. In the next year, this role will also include helping them with order management during peak times. Using LPR, restaurant staff can link an order to a customer's car and use it as an identification to deliver their order once ready.

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How to Open a Coffee Shop: The Ultimate Guide

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Sourcing Equipment. Mobile Coffee Shops (Carts and Trucks). Source: Smart Draw. Make sure you're diligent about asking what a wholesale supplier's order minimums are as well as their order turnaround time. Will it be a coffee kiosk, mobile coffee shop, or a coffee shop with or without seating? Coffee Bars.

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Face Pay Network, Restaurant of the Future and The Main Course

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In addition to allowing a safer, hands-free payment method, the system has been shown to make the ordering process quicker and more efficient. With Seated Events, Seated at Home, and Seated, restaurants can drive demand to their three primary sources of revenue in a single, easy to use rewards platform.” OhWaiter Debuts.

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Safe Distancing Tech and a Farewell to Foam

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The idea of purchasing Dining Bonds seemed to strike a chord with the public as a way to provide much needed financial support in order to help restaurants stay in business. The company is exploring collaborations with corporate partners and charities, as well as merchandise sales, to keep its mission alive. "When