Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 3, 2024

Keeping health and wellness top of mind, consumers are increasingly choosing mocktails and other non-alcoholic drinks at restaurants and at home. In fact, the market for non-alcoholic alternatives has seen consistent double-digit growth over the last five years and exceeded half a billion dollars in 2023, according to NielsenIQ. Celebrities such as Katy Perry, Blake Lively, Kylie Minogue and Bella Hadid are helping to boost the booze-free band wagon by launching non-alcoholic beverages.

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Sante

MAY 3, 2024

“Good” is a misleading term when it comes to business. Good is another way of expressing “acceptable”, or “average”, and Continue Reading The post HOW TO OPERATE A GREAT RESTAURANT appeared first on Santé Magazine.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 3, 2024

Ever-popular coffee is also proving to be an uber versatile ingredient for restaurants, bars and coffeehouses. More than half of North America’s 50 Best Bars have coffee cocktails on their signature menus, according to bar inventory resource, Backbar. According to a recent survey , one in four Americans like to drink espresso martinis, and in 2024, the cocktail trend remains strong, having experienced a 50 percent growth over the preceding 12 months.

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Squirrel Systems

MAY 3, 2024

In today’s competitive dining industry, maintaining profitability while keeping prices stable is a significant challenge for restaurateurs. High operating costs, fluctuating commodity prices, and the ever-evolving preferences of guests can all squeeze margins. However, there are effective strategies that restaurants can employ to enhance their financial performance without having to increase menu prices.

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Advertiser: Paycor

There’s a new overtime salary threshold that will impact employers across the country. If you have an employee making less than $43,888 on July 1 or less than $58,656 on January 1, you’re going to have to start paying overtime. Download Paycor’s guide to learn: Which groups of employees are affected? How should you classify employees? Best ways to mitigate risk.

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EATER

MAY 3, 2024

From adaptogen powders to AG1 and collagen, why are so many of us self-medicating with supplements? When my first novel was released in 2017, I found myself depleted and exhausted. For an introverted writer, going on a book tour was a shock to the system. For the first time, I was speaking in public, fielding questions about writing, trying to put words to an intuitive endeavor.

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SpotOn

MAY 3, 2024

If you work in the food service industry, the National Restaurant Association Show is the place to be. It's an annual trade show with more than 50,000 professionals, 2,200 exhibitors , and 900 product categories in a space that covers over 11 football fields. However, with an event this big, your visit can easily turn into information overload.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 3, 2024

The chain reported another quarter of impressive sales and traffic growth, and its margins increased, too.

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Clover - Restaurants

MAY 3, 2024

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are an estimated 48 million people who get sick from foodborne illness each year, with 128,000 requiring hospitalization. An estimated 3,000 people in the U.S. die each year due to foodborne illness. Recent surveys confirm the importance of cleaning and sanitizing in food industry establishments for building customer confidence and in influencing diner choice.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 3, 2024

The demand for anytime, anywhere eating keeps rising, and operators are noticing, competing to offer a greater variety of value-priced and inventive snacks to steal customers away from retail.

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Advertiser: Paycor

There’s a new overtime salary threshold that will impact employers across the country. If you have an employee making less than $43,888 on July 1 or less than $58,656 on January 1, you’re going to have to start paying overtime. Download Paycor’s guide to learn: Which groups of employees are affected? How should you classify employees? Best ways to mitigate risk.

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Aaron Allen & Associates

MAY 3, 2024

*Originally Published in the Aaron Allen & Associates Newsletter on 04/08/2024 It’s been making the news lately that many C-suite positions in leading restaurant chains are changing hands. We took a look at a sample of companies with new members in their leadership teams, and found that more than half of the replacements were for the CEO. The changing foodservice landscape puts CEOs under enormous pressure.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 3, 2024

A new AI-powered scheduling tool, among other initiatives, helped make the casual-dining chain's restaurants more profitable in the first quarter.

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EATER

MAY 3, 2024

The new Netflix series captures the uncertain power dynamic and unusual level of intimacy between bartender and patron—real, illusory, performative, sometimes all three.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 3, 2024

State of the Plate: Italians are strict about their pies, but American pizza chefs have an array of seemingly endless riffs on the popular dish, menu trends columnist Nancy Kruse writes.

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EATER

MAY 3, 2024

California’s ban on so-called junk fees, SB 478, goes into effect on July 1. But the attorney general’s office has yet to outline how the law will be enforced, leaving restaurant and bar owners anxious and worried.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 3, 2024

The Bottom Line: Wingstop, Raising Cane’s and Jersey Mike’s have broken free from the pack of well-established growth chains. Here’s why this trio stands out.

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EATER

MAY 3, 2024

Netflix In his directorial feature debut, Jerry Seinfeld tries to put a madcap spin on the Cold War-era race to create the Pop-Tart It’s garbage day one morning in 1963 in Battle Creek, Michigan. While he’s on his way to work, a Kellogg’s employee named Robert Cabana sees two kids climb straight into a dumpster. They’re happily shoveling breakfast pastries down their maw, cheeks ruddied by the strudel’s crimson sludge.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 3, 2024

Tech entrepreneur Johann Moonesinghe suddenly finds himself leading a growing group of restaurants. His secret? He doesn't expect to make a profit.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 3, 2024

Learn how "The Keith Lee Effect" is helping restaurants. The food reviewer was profiled by CBS News.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 3, 2024

The restaurant industry added 6,600 jobs in April, according to new federal data, continuing a pattern of slower overall job growth.

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EATER

MAY 3, 2024

How corporate greed plays a role in making bird flu outbreaks — and egg prices — worse.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 3, 2024

Fat Brands has some trouble with the weather; strong results from El Pollo Loco and Rave Restaurant Group wants some remodels.

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The Salt

MAY 3, 2024

Chef Joseph Yoon plans to transform dual emerging cicada broods into edible delicacies.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 3, 2024

The deal gives Kraft Heinz the right to use Fridays’ brand name on retail products in perpetuity.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 3, 2024

The president declined to sign off on a bill that would have scuttled an effort to make franchisors jointly liable for their franchisees’ workers, sending the issue back to Congress.

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