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8 Tips to Optimize Restaurant Labor Costs Despite Higher Minimum Wages

Restaurant365

Some are predicting a potential boom in the restaurant industry in the post-pandemic era. Consumers are ready to return to restaurants, and companies are innovating with new business models and new locations. However, if there’s one thing that will have a huge effect on all future business trends, it is new labor wage laws.

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COVID-19 Is the Opportunity Plant-Based Alternatives Have Waited For

Modern Restaurant Management

Typically made of legumes, vegetable and assorted grains, these “meat substitutes” are now popular in grocery stores, as well as fast-food restaurants and even fine dining establishments. Covid19 has wreaked havoc with certain sectors of America’s food chain — most recently and notoriously, the meat industry.

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Rising Restaurant Minimum Wage: What to Know for 2021

Touch Bistro

hour, restaurant operators are starting to think about how they will adjust their businesses to a $15 restaurant minimum wage. and provinces in Canada) have already increased their restaurant minimum wage and tipped minimum wage in the past few years. Will the Rising Restaurant Minimum Wage Affect Me? In the U.S.,

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the dismal March restaurant sales, security, loyalty, trends and teen consumer behaviors. March Sales Decline. Same-store sales for restaurants dropped by 28.3 Same-store sales for restaurants dropped by 28.3

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MRM Research Roundup: Year-End 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Top Restaurant Trends. BentoBox released its comprehensive 2020 Restaurant Trend Report. Key findings from the report include: Direct online ordering booms as restaurants recognize the need to bypass third-party marketplaces : Average monthly online order volume grew 250x since the COVID-19 pandemic began, with $59.18

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COVID-19 PSA for Restaurants

Lavu

The data behind the outbreak, along with what strategies larger companies quietly adopt, is important to consider in the restaurant industry. The data behind the outbreak, along with what strategies larger companies quietly adopt, is important to consider in the restaurant industry. To read his full blog, please click here.

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New & Notable: TEAM Schostak Celebrates 40, AI in Food Service and Beachy Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

TEAM Schostak Family Restaurants (TSFR) is celebrating its 40th anniversary along with the anniversaries of employees that have been with the company for 20 years or more. In 1991 she was promoted to Accounting Manager and in 2009 to Director of Accounting. TEAM Schostak Family Celebrates Anniversary and Employees.

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