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14 Restaurant Management Tools to Make your Business More Efficient

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The role of a restaurant manager is always in motion. There’s always something else to get done, a new fire to put out, and broken things to fix. All of that on top of the everyday tasks from scheduling to payroll to reporting can catch up to you. From cleaning flat tops to refilling sanitizers, it’s easy for tasks to get lost in the shuffle.

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A Steakhouse Divided

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Martha Cheng Hy’s Steakhouse was synonymous with Calgary dining in the 1950s, but as Canadian tastes have changed over the decades, a Waikīkī offshoot has become a time capsule of the iconic original It wasn’t long after opening in downtown Calgary in 1955 that Hy’s Steakhouse became synonymous with Alberta food culture.

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14 Restaurant Management Tools to Make your Business More Efficient

7 Shifts

The role of a restaurant manager is always in motion. There’s always something else to get done, a new fire to put out, and broken things to fix. All of that on top of the everyday tasks from scheduling to payroll to reporting can catch up to you. From cleaning flat tops to refilling sanitizers, it’s easy for tasks to get lost in the shuffle.

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Restaurant Consumer Trends: Demographics, Lifestyle and Technology

The Restaurant Group

In general, demographics refer to quantitative characteristics such as age, gender, and geographic location used in marketing to segment large populations into small, marketable groups with similar characteristics and collectively influence many consumer trends, behaviors, and expectations. SERVING EVERYTHING WITH A SIDE OF TECH.

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‘Jiro Dreams of Sushi’ and the American Omakase Boom

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Jiro Dreams of Sushi , which was released in 2011 but debuted on Netflix in August 2012, is a film about obsession. pre- Jiro ; the “Japanese turn,” as defined by historian Samuel Yamashita , had infused American fine dining with Japanese influence since the 1980s. Lisa Kogawa/Eater. The laughter and — god, really?

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How Restaurant Dessert Menus Shaped Our Sweet Tooth

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The composed little plate (CLP for short) was a staple of the dessert menus of the 2010s, a departure from the stodgy chocolate cakes and boring tiramisu at the upscale dining destinations of the ’90s. A bizarre but reliable economic indicator, America’s desserts have always reflected what was going on in the world around them.

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A Highly Specific Guide to Barcelona’s Best Tasting Menus

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How to go all-out on at least one meal in the tasting-menu capital of the world Fine dining has had a tough go in recent years. In most cities around the world, stepping off the street and into a cushy dining room means missing out on important local culinary traditions in favor of a tablecloth and some generic amuse bouche.