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

Modern Restaurant Management

Bonus Tip : If you don’t already have one, consider launching an employee referral program that offers incentives, such as free meals or company merchandise, when a referred candidate is successfully hired and stays with the team.

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Boost Your Restaurant Business with Five Local Marketing Tips

Modern Restaurant Management

Refer to your local health experts and guidelines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control as to determine these steps. Suppliers refer to enterprises that provide your restaurant with the raw ingredients and equipment you need to conduct business. This is completely understandable given the nature of crisis at hand.

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THE END OF BEING CIVIL, KIND, LAW ABIDING AND PROFESSIONAL

Culinary Cues

I have watched in horror as mobs break into stores and steal merchandise, terrorize employees and customers, and do so without any consideration of the harm being done, or the laws that are designed to protect.

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8 Tips for Selling Merchandise at Your Coffee Shop

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Coffee shops have a unique customer base that stands and waits patiently (we hope) for their lattes—and not selling merchandise is a lost business opportunity. Those minutes could be spent checking out your café’s merchandise instead of idly scrolling through Instagram feeds. How to Merchandise a Café. Travel Mugs.

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The Recipe for Rebranding Success: Transforming Your Restaurant’s Image

Modern Restaurant Management

Some common examples of why a restaurant might rebrand are: The locals that held your restaurant afloat aren’t coming in as much Your food used to cater to a lower price point, but you are trying to increase your quality You’ve acquired a business that needs to improve business materials for menus, signage, merchandise, etc.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

According to our survey, consumers reference these precautions before making a purchase decision. Since then, gift card sales have declined, but online ordering and merchandise sales have both increased steadily: Online orders have increased 50 percent week-over-week for the last three weeks.

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Ultimate Restaurant Website Design Guide for Beginners

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If you need inspiration, refer to your collection of competitors’ websites. Refer to your wireframes to find templates that resemble what you had in mind for your website. They show you where page elements like text, images, and buttons go. Create wireframes for each page of your website.

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