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Nine Critical HR and Payroll Steps to Prepare Your Restaurant for 2025

Modern Restaurant Management

From updating policies to gearing up for tax season, these steps will enhance your compliance and position your restaurant for sustained growth. Auditing Classifications : Double-check exempt versus nonexempt statuses for all employees to avoid costly fines and incorrect paychecks and tax withholdings.

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Strategies for Achieving a Zero-Waste Kitchen in Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

Teach workers how to implement a waste auditing system that allows both you and them to identify patterns in wastage. Sustainability is measured by looking at a number of areas throughout a business. Monitoring practices : It’s difficult to reduce food waste if you don’t know what is being wasted.

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For Restaurants Cutting Their Carbon Footprint, Composting Food Scraps Is Just the Beginning

EATER

Independent restaurants can get help through utility energy audit and equipment rebate programs—if their state has them. The restaurant, called Shia, will strive to be a zero-gas, zero-plastics kitchen that will test different sustainability practices and share its learnings with other small, independent restaurants.

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The Cost of B-ing Good

Modern Restaurant Management

Read any article enumerating the current or emerging trends in restaurants and retail and you will see ideas of health and wellness, environmental sustainability, and brand authenticity coming to the fore. Green Restaurant and Slow Food were others we considered. But it was the pivots in the pandemic that pointed us toward B.

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How To Reduce Food Waste in Restaurants

The Restaurant Group

Understanding how to reduce food waste in restaurants is the first step toward sustainable and cost-effective operations. Community Impact : Reducing waste creates opportunities for food donations and supports sustainability efforts. Educating and empowering them fosters a collective mission for sustainability.

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Here Are the 2025 James Beard Awards Restaurant and Chef Award Finalists

EATER

Candidate has set high standards; demonstrates creativity and consistency in excellence, innovation, hospitality; is making efforts to create a sustainable work culture; and has served as an exceptional example or mentor for other beverage professionals.

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Monthly Restaurant Accounting: Tax and Financial Tips 

Paper Chase Accountancy

Professional tips for hospitality accounting that directly contribute to sustained business growth. Staying Compliant and Audit-Ready The IRS, state tax authorities, and even local health departments have stringent requirements for financial record-keeping in restaurants. Learn more about our Accounting Services !