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Revolutionizing Restaurant Supply Chains: The Impact of AI on Transparency, Validation, Verification, and Sustainability

Modern Restaurant Management

AI can also improve sustainability within restaurants – and throughout their supply chains – with huge benefits that include waste and carbon emissions reduction, cost savings, and meeting consumer demand. Here, AI can help verify suppliers’ compliance with audit and certification standards. Building consumer trust.

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How to Expand Your Franchise: A 10-Step Roadmap for Restaurants

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Step 1: Audit Your Current Location(s) Before you start planning for your future, take a look at your past and your present. Still, you should conduct a thorough audit of your current restaurant(s) before expanding your business further. The people have spoken, and your restaurant franchise is a winner.

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7 Ways to Reduce Food Waste in Your Restaurant

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Restaurants, a big part of this challenge, can substantially impact by adopting sustainable practices and reducing their contribution to food waste. By reducing the amount of food wasted, you cut down on food costs and contribute to the larger goal of creating a sustainable restaurant environment.

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Amid Influx of New Employees, Restaurants Must Build and Reinforce Brand Excellence

Modern Restaurant Management

To increase key metrics for your restaurant – including customer loyalty, sales, and profits – establish and maintain an exemplary food safety culture, where all employees work collaboratively to maximize safety and minimize risks. Now, massive layoffs in other sectors (including tech, real estate, etc.)

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The Complete Guide to Increase Your Restaurant Profit Margins

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Profit margin is a key metric, especially pivotal in restaurant sales, that calculates the percentage of revenue left as profit after covering expenses. This, in turn, can significantly increase your sales and enhance profit margins, pointing towards areas of strength and potential areas for improvement.

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The New Order: Five Important Focus Areas for Greener Operations

Modern Restaurant Management

Luckily, a commitment to more sustainable operations can coexist with healthy profits, and even growing margins. Below are five important areas of focus for restaurant and catering professionals who are re-imagining their operations for a newer, more sustainable normal. First Priority: Getting Smarter.

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Top Restaurant Tech Trends in 2024

Chowly

While restaurant sales are predicted to rise in 2024, high operational costs will limit profit margins. Sales and Economic Forecast Independent restaurants bore the brunt of the pandemic, with approximately 10% closing in 2020 compared to 2.5% Sales are projected to rise, but the higher cost of doing business will challenge margins.

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