Open for Business

JANUARY 24, 2023

A busy owner’s guide to restaurant social media strategy Restaurant social media strategy refers to having a plan to connect with your guests where they spend their time: online. A strong social media presence has never been a more important marketing strategy, whether your restaurant is new or 110 years old. Now is the perfect time to reconnect with longtime fans and introduce yourself to potential new diners interested in visiting your restaurant.

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Culinary Cues

JANUARY 8, 2023

It’s the fire in the belly waiting to take charge, the anxiety being held in check, cold sweat running down your back even though it’s 120 degrees where you stand, and the nervous chatter of tongs clicking to the beat of a cook’s rhythm. It’s been building up for hours now, ever since each cook arrived around 1:00 to start pulling together their mise en place.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 18, 2023

If 2020 and 2021 were all about helping operators find new revenue streams to reach guests when they couldn’t come into restaurants, then 2022 was all about getting customers back in. Yet, just as virus restrictions lifted and customer demand shot back up, rampant inflation caused consumers to pull back on their spending, slowing restaurant recovery.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2023

2023 has the potential to be transformative for restaurants, with opportunity for new innovation beyond a recession in these first months. The common theme you’ll see is restaurants continuing to do more with less, both to weather economic uncertainty and to deliver on heightened expectations from consumers. Thankfully, even if consumers dine out less, their desire to maximize each occasion will help buoy restaurants through this time.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 24, 2023

In the digital age, online reputation management is critical for business success. Many depend on social media reviews and posts about a particular restaurant before deciding whether they will dine there or not. Nearly half of your market depends on social media comments for their restaurant reviews. A survey conducted by MGH Advertising found that 45 percent of American diners said they tried a restaurant for the first time precisely because of a positive post on social media, while another 21

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Perfect Daily Grind

JANUARY 3, 2023

In recent months, we have seen costs increase significantly for hospitality businesses, including in the coffee sector. There are a number of reasons for this, such as rising food and energy costs , as well as higher levels of inflation. On top of this, shipping costs for roasters have also increased – squeezing already-slim profit margins more than ever.

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The Rail

JANUARY 13, 2023

By Julia Nikolaus, Contributor As a restaurateur or manager, you know just how competitive the non-alcoholic beverage market can be. With so many different choices for customers to decide on, it's often difficult to make your mark and stand out from the crowd. Nevertheless, with wise strategies and tactics in place, you have ample opportunity to differentiate yourself from other restaurants and create an unforgettable experience for patrons of your establishment.

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Restaurant Engine

JANUARY 25, 2023

A website developer can help you take your website to the next level. Wondering if you need to redesign your website? Starting a restaurant and need to create a website? Either way, you need a website developer to help you with one of the most important marketing tools for your website. In this article, we look at nine signs you need a website developer.

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Bottleneck Management

JANUARY 12, 2023

Dry January Mocktails. Dry January is the time for mocktails and a challenge to abstain from alcohol for one month. Alcohol Change UK launched this public health initiative in 2013 to challenge citizens to remove alcohol from their diet for 31 days. It’s for anyone concerned they may be drinking too much or for anyone looking to start the year off healthier.

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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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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 13, 2023

Since the pandemic, restaurants have endured a plethora of issues ranging from fluctuating dining restrictions to supply chain issues to rising food prices. But arguably no issue has proven to be as constant and bedeviling as the labor shortage. Recent research has proven the industry is still struggling to rebound on staffing, reporting a woeful 500K fewer employees than before the pandemic.

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EATER

JANUARY 17, 2023

How drinking chocolate made its way from Mesoamerica to the sweet shelf-stable powder that fueled my childhood Here’s something that happens every time I go to Singapore. The first morning I wake up in my grandmother’s flat, I take a short and sweaty walk to my neighborhood kopitiam and buy myself the same breakfast: two orders of roti pratha with goat curry and an iced Milo.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JANUARY 15, 2023

Over the past few years, it’s been impossible to ignore the meteoric rise of oat milk in specialty coffee. In fact, oat milk is so popular that it’s now uncommon for a coffee shop not to stock it. According to research from World Coffee Portal in 2021, 16% of UK consumers have tried oat milk in a coffee shop in the past 12 months – making it the most popular plant milk in the country.

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The Rail

JANUARY 4, 2023

By Indiana Lee, Contributor Like all businesses, restaurants rely on their employees to be successful. So, why is it that employee wellbeing is an afterthought for many restaurants? At the end of the day, you must treat your employees with the utmost respect if you want to keep them -- just like you do with your best customers. The cost of turnover is enormous , but treating your restaurant’s staff like your best guests goes beyond just the cost of loss labor.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Society Insurance is committed to providing weekly blog posts to help business owners optimize daily operations and minimize risk. Over the course of the past year, we’ve posted free content to help maintain employee satisfaction, prevent accidents, and more. Here are the most popular blogs that have helped business owners just like you! Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2022.

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Bingage

JANUARY 25, 2023

2023 is here with a new trend in the market. Everyone is so obsessed with this new tool called ChatGPT. Yes, ChatGPT is the new AI bot in town, even if you’re not into artificial intelligence, you’d better pay attention. The tool, from a power player in artificial intelligence called OpenAI, enables you to ask questions in natural language, to which the chatbot gives conversational, if somewhat tilted, answers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 25, 2023

Independent restaurants with fewer than three locations make up more than half of the restaurants in the U.S. Many restaurateurs dream of growing into multiple locations, but it takes a lot of capital investment to get there. At my restaurant development and investment firm Full Course, we work with emerging brands to develop leadership, optimize business practices and ultimately provide financial investment for expansion.

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EATER

JANUARY 23, 2023

Joules Garcia /Eater Pastry chefs may be leaving restaurants, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing for the profession For the last several years, I’ve noticed a terrifying trend: Major magazines and food publications say that pastry chefs are going extinct. As a pastry chef myself, this is bad news, to say the least. These articles tell us that as margins shrink due to inflation, pastry chefs are out of a job or left searching for more secure jobs in other industries.

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Ever wondered where to splurge and where to safely conserve when it comes to operating and growing your restaurant? 🤔 Join James Kahler, COO of Full Course and industry visionary, in this new webinar where he'll talk all about best practices to invest in your restaurant's success! Whether you're a new business or an established restaurant, a seasoned pro or a rookie, you'll learn the keys to sustainable success in this competitive industry.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JANUARY 11, 2023

There are an ever-growing number of ways to prepare filter coffee , each of which has its own effect on flavour and texture. However, for the most part, there are two main ways to brew coffee: percolation and immersion. With immersion brewing, the coffee is in full contact with the water for the entire duration of the extraction. This enhances the body and aftertaste of a coffee.

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Restaurant Business

JANUARY 6, 2023

It’s not hard to understand the sales-driving power of beer cheese: Combine the comfort-food appeal of cheese with the fun of a beer infusion, and the result is an ultra-versatile sauce that restaurateurs and diners alike will love getting creative with. According to Ignite menu data, consumers’ favorite way to enjoy beer cheese is as a topping or dip with pub-food classics.

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Society Insurance

JANUARY 18, 2023

Originally published January 29, 2019, updated January 18, 2023. Many parts of the country are no stranger to arctic air masses this time of year. This type of weather system brings both bitter cold and wind chills that create dangerous conditions for those in its path, affecting not only people, roads, and vehicles, but building infrastructure, too.

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Sante

JANUARY 31, 2023

Champagne Henri Giraud is a prestigious boutique maison located in Aÿ, which is legally classified as one of only 17 “Grands Crus” wine villages in Continue Reading

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Speaker: Lauren Barash, Vice President, Brand Marketing

In an ever-evolving industry, building and retaining loyal customers is critical to the success of any restaurant business. Join Lauren Barash, VP of Brand Marketing at Full Course, as she delves into the world of restaurant loyalty programs, and reveals the top five essential strategies to optimize your approach! This webinar will explore: Loyalty trends and what you should be focusing on 📊 Actionable insights and ideas to help you develop the most powerful and effective loyalty program

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 12, 2023

It’s January, which means restaurant operators and managers have been juggling busy holiday crowds for breakfast, lunch and dinner while also planning the employee party that typically occurs this month. With restaurant employees putting so much care into every plate and table while their patrons leisurely embrace the holiday spirit, these parties are an opportunity to truly return that hospitality to those who make it so special for guests the rest of the year.

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EATER

JANUARY 9, 2023

We’re taking our time while traveling this year. After a fitful 2022, when a wave of pent-up wanderlust crashed over hot destinations, overwhelming hotels and airlines, 2023 seems like a chance to give up revenge travel and reset. That means leisurely strolling through neighborhoods with no set plan, putting aside time to unwind in nature, and following surprising new passions, to-do list be damned.

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Perfect Daily Grind

JANUARY 31, 2023

For the most part, both the price of arabica and robusta rely on futures contracts. These are legal agreements to buy or sell a particular commodity at a predetermined price on a set date. However, while the C price and robusta futures are determined by real time transactions of coffee, the price of coffee is also affected by fluctuations in foreign exchange rates.

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Restaurant Business

JANUARY 5, 2023

TOMS King Holdings, which operates 90 locations in Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, blamed the pandemic for hurting traffic and inflation for draining cash flow.

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How do you stay on top of what your customers are expecting when they step through your doors? Do you know what’s on their mind? How are you going to account for what they’re planning on doing months from now? As we head into 2024, price-related issues are still top-of-mind for restaurant customers after the inflation boom earlier this year. In this new report, we give you the latest insights on consumer spending trends, attitudes on tipping, and how you can respond.

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Society Insurance

JANUARY 11, 2023

At one time or another, almost everyone who works in the restaurant and bar industry has been asked to change, move, or assist with a beer keg. If they are lucky, an experienced coworker will be able to provide instruction and guidance on how to properly move and swap empty kegs for full ones. Unfortunately, there are too many instances where none of the individuals in the establishment has received proper training and the employee may think “I only need to move it a few feet, how hard can that

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Sante

JANUARY 2, 2023

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Modern Restaurant Management

JANUARY 4, 2023

Inflation is dominating the conversation in every industry today and according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics prices rose 7.7 percent for the year ending in October. Despite inflation taking its toll, many people are continuing to prioritize and enjoy the convenience of takeaway and food delivery with recent Deliverect data revealing that more people are purchasing delivery orders today than they were before the recent increase in the cost of living.

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