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26 Proven Ways to Market Your Restaurant Online and Increase Bookings

7 Shifts

A smooth mobile experience keeps people engaged and leads to more online bookings. Claim and optimize your restaurant’s Google Business Profile The Google Business Profile is a simple yet powerful tool restaurant marketing strategy that can significantly drive more foot traffic and increase bookings.

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7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

7 Shifts

That’s why our teams—who specifically work to improve restaurant operations, performance, and staff happiness—have curated a 7-course menu of the best books about understanding restaurant management. So pull up a chair and take a deep dive into some of the most insightful and actionable tips from the best in the business. Goodreads: 4.09

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JUST DON’T KNOW OR JUST DON’T CARE

Culinary Cues

We hire and fire, increase pay, or add more staff, change restaurant menus or add convenience foods to reduce the need for qualified employees, or simply accept that poor attitudes and inconsistent product are just “the way it is.” The hiring process is one of the most important steps in designing and delivering a great product or service.

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How I Got My Job: Writing Children’s Books About Food

EATER

Somewhere between “Dora the Explorer” and “No Reservations,” Sarah Thomas’s book series “Kalamata’s Kitchen” introduces kids to global cultures through food In How I Got My Job , folks from across the food and restaurant industry answer Eater’s questions about, well, how they got their job. Sarah Thomas, author of Kalamata’s Kitchen.

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The 10 Best Bits of Advice We Heard on Season 1 of the Restaurant Growth Podcast

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About a year and more than a dozen episodes later, we had the privilege to interview a wide range of folks with advice on everything from hiring staff , to creating content, to providing benefits, and increasing profits. Storytelling is an essential part of the hiring process. Hire for fit rather than skill.

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Why Culinary Programs Fail

Culinary Cues

The businesses that will hire your students need to be vested in your effort – this is how success is defined. When there are 100 reservations on the books – you don’t have the luxury of spending three hours to turn six-dozen potatoes. www.harvestamericacues.com BLOG. STUBORN ADHERENCE TO THE WAY IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN DONE.

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IN THE KITCHEN – ORGANIZATION IS EVERYTHING

Culinary Cues

Attention to detail cannot be turned on and off, so how a cook organizes his or workstation in the restaurant is how he or she will organize their home kitchen, their clothes, books, records, and food supplies. Hire people with the capacity and set the standards of organization that everyone must buy into. CAFÉ Talks Podcast.