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

Modern Restaurant Management

Bonus Tip : Structure your handbook around the employee lifecycle, covering company culture and recruitment through performance management and termination to ensure a clear, easy-to-follow guide for every stage of the employee experience. Prepare for Labor Law Changes Stay ahead of—and compliant with—upcoming labor law changes.

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Why Data Is the Secret Ingredient for Successful Loyalty Programs

Modern Restaurant Management

While there’s no single recipe for recruitment and retention success, many restaurateurs are leveraging a proven approach: loyalty programs. This is where the hidden hero of loyalty programs comes in: branded merchandise. Every restaurant’s mission is to get customers in the door and then keep them coming back for more.

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The Leftovers

EATER

The app is currently populated mostly with coffee shops, doughnut shops, bakeries, panaderias, bagel shops, and the occasional pizzeria (a representative says the company is actively recruiting new stores, which they do over the phone or email in order “to have great conversations with businesses about the issue of food waste.”)

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Be Damn Good

Foodable

On this episode of the Takeout, Delivery, and Catering podcast series, hosts TJ Schier and Sam Stanovich sit down with Elizabeth Baxter , the chief people officer of Torchy’s Tacos , to explore the taco business, crafting products and merchandise, and building a culture of caring. And people like different, innovative, and easier.”

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MRM Franchise Feed: Bad Ass Gets Bigger and New Prototype for Bagel Boss

Modern Restaurant Management

It started with an overhaul of existing branding, packaging and restaurant design for its national franchise stores and then followed with the recruitment of a seasoned senior leadership team. That team is charged with executing a multi-channel growth plan that is led by franchise store growth and development.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Chicken Sale-d Chick and The Dolly Llama and This Is It! to Franchise

Modern Restaurant Management

The Brick & Mortar store model, which ranges from 1200 – 2000 sq feet, has a specific layout designed for efficiently producing the entire The Dolly Llama menu and properly displaying logos and branding to maximize presentation and The Dolly Llama’s merchandising. ” German Donor Kebab Growth.

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MRM People & Places: Maki Madness and Pancakes for Life

Modern Restaurant Management

And now, after months of recruiting a truly elite roster of local and national chefs and restaurateurs, we can’t wait to open our doors to this special dining destination.” Instant win prizes include limited-edition pancake-themed merchandise such as bicycles, scooters, customizable jackets, handmade berets and more.

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