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By restaurateurs for restaurateurs: Advice for opening in 2020

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Are you opening a restaurant in 2020? As you plan out your concept, location, menu, staffing, and marketing, take a read through the advice left by hundreds of restaurateurs to ensure you’re set up for success in 2020. Manager, Mercato Italiano. As a manager, work for your staff and your staff will work for your customer.

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9 Restaurant Job Interview Questions to Ask in 2020

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Management Ask these questions when you interview potential managers. What to look for: If a candidate’s answer is overly generic, then your restaurant is probably one of dozens of restaurants they’re applying to manage and they won’t care where they end up. What are the most important skills someone in this role should have?

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How Mattenga’s Pizzeria Simplifies Labor Management—and Gets Back to Family Life

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This rapid growth left Hengam and Matthew searching for a better way to use systems and technology to alleviate the labor management burden and save more time for family life. When our managers would do their schedule, they would have to manually check the event section to [see if there was] an event this week or not.

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MRM Research Roundup: Year-End 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM Research Roundup features top trends for 2020, how 2020 changed food and the year's top wines. BentoBox released its comprehensive 2020 Restaurant Trend Report. The most ordered menu item of 2020 came from South Carolina chain, New York City Pizza, and its “New York” thin-crust pizza.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. As buyer expectations to receive this type of relevant engagement continues to heighten, database management strategies are of high importance.

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A Quick Look Back on 2020

Xtra Chef

Dear 2020, you will not be missed. It goes without saying that 2020 has been a challenging year for humanity. Here are some of the actions, accomplishments and highlights of the past year… We introduced Recipe Management – a recipe for restaurant profitability. Yet, here we are.

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Restaurant Insiders on 2020 Lessons Learned, Part Two

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine asked restaurant industry insiders for their perspection on 2020: What lessons did you learn and what do you feel the restaurant industry learned this year? John Moezzi, National Account Manager, Sharp NEC Display Solutions. Here are their responses. Click here for part one.

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