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What to know about New Jersey tip laws

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A modern restaurant management system can help with compliance. If the restaurant management chooses to pay some or all of the service charge out to staff, that money counts as taxable wages, not tipped income. Managers, supervisors, and employers can’t receive funds from tip pools either. per hour) and tips.

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What To Know About New Jersey Tip Laws

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A modern restaurant management system can help with compliance. If the restaurant management chooses to pay some or all of the service charge out to staff, that money counts as taxable wages, not tipped income. Managers, supervisors, and employers can’t receive funds from tip pools either. per hour) and tips.

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

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To answer this question, we compared 2019 vs 2021 restaurant receipts. in 2019 and $99.50 For this question, we also used 2019 vs 2021 tip data. Patrons are tipping about 18% MORE than they were in 2019. in 2019 and $18.26 The next largest cost for most restaurants is labor–and there is cash to be saved.

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A Case for Financing

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A 2020 Harvard Business School study reported that 74 percent of businesses do not have the cash on hand to cover an equipment-related expense. JPMorgan Chase found the median small business holds 27 cash buffer days in reserve. The restaurant industry falls behind the median with an average of only 16 cash buffer days.

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-December 2019 Edition

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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. While restaurant sales were lower for November of 2018, November of 2019 did not include the same holiday headwinds.

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The State of Full Service Restaurants

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Seventy-four percent of full service restaurants (FSRs) managed to maintain or increase their sales during the pandemic; however, profit margins in 2021 declined to 10 percent, compared to 12 percent in 2019, according to third annual State of Full Service Restaurants Report released by TouchBistro.

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How Restaurant Owners Can Prepare for the COVID-19 Cold Weather Lull

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Restaurant owners are being forced to find a way to make it through winter with vastly reduced revenue, and many operators are scrambling to reallocate budgets and manage staffing to survive COVID-19. Managing cash flow can be difficult for seasonal businesses. Plan for Gaps in Your Budget.