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EYES WIDE OPEN, EYES WIDE SHUT

Culinary Cues

Reactionary approaches involve increasing rates of pay, dumbing down menus, reducing hours of operation or levels of service to limit the number of employees needed, raising prices to compensate for higher rates of pay, reducing portion sizes while raising prices, or even looking at automation and technology to “right the ship.”

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Inflation Is Impacting The Restaurant Industry. Here’s How To Fight It.

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Has the price of going to a restaurant increased? To answer this question, we compared 2019 vs 2021 restaurant receipts. To answer this question, we compared 2019 vs 2021 restaurant receipts. We found a 14% increase in the total price on a receipt. in 2019 and $99.50 in 2019 and $99.50 in 2019 and $18.26

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

While restaurant sales were lower for November of 2018, November of 2019 did not include the same holiday headwinds. This edition of Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's Research Roundup features the great gift of a restaurant gift card, learning about event professionals, top QSR traffic and digital ordering strategies.

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5 Ways to Develop Your Restaurant's Tip Strategy, According to Experts

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But we kept the back-of-house revenue share program for our kitchen teams, where regardless of what position you work in the kitchen, you get a certain percentage of revenue earned. Everything was built into the menu price. Kelly Phillips - Founder and Hospitality Director @ Destination Unknown Restaurants in Washington, D.C.

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7 Restaurant Employee Contest Ideas to Boost Sales and Engagement

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47% of restaurants were negatively affected by employee turnover in 2019, with less than a third of restaurateurs reporting that turnover had no impact on their business. When it comes to email, e very $1 you spend can mean $38 back to your business —that’s a 3800% ROI. Engaged employees are also less likely to turnover.

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Death by a Thousand Service Fees

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Lille Allen/Eater After years of artificially low menu prices, service fees feel like an inevitable, annoying part of dining out now If you’re the type of diner who regularly eats at restaurants, you’ve almost assuredly noticed a “service fee” tacked on to your check at one establishment or another.

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A Kroger-Albertsons Merger Would Be Bad for Almost Everyone

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. | Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images Earlier this week, the FTC filed a lawsuit alleging that the deal would eliminate competition and raise grocery prices It’s likely that the place you shop for groceries every week is owned by one of two companies — Kroger, or Albertsons. billion merger. antitrust concerns” over the merger.