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MRM Research Roundup: Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day 2024 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Other highlights include: Check Size Up, Tips Down: Guests are willing to treat themselves to menu items like steaks, caviar, truffles and tasting menus, resulting in an average 14 percent increase in their bill. However, when it comes to tipping, it seems Cupid missed the memo, and there's a 1.5

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How to Calculate and Optimize Your Restaurant Payroll Percentage

Restaurant365

Your payroll is the process of calculating and distributing wages to your employees. The restaurant industry faces a lot of industry-specific regulations on payroll, with laws regulating hourly employee scheduling and tipped wage workers, as well as compliance with the Affordable Care Act regarding seasonal and variable hour employees.

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How to write a restaurant marketing plan that puts butts in seats [Ideas and Strategies]

7 Shifts

Make all touchpoints of your restaurant feel like the cool, casual, fusion, or fine dining establishment it is. Tip: Your competitor analysis needs to include the digital space too. How we consume food, how menus are engineered , and even how restaurants are designed all owe a hat tip to IG.

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Fast-Casual Academia, Climatarian Menu and Ice Auction

Modern Restaurant Management

The Hospitality Recovery Coalition includes DISCUS, the American Distilled Spirits Alliance (ADSA), the Council of State Restaurant Associations (CSRA), the National Restaurant Association and TIPs. TIPs offers training for individuals on the responsible sale, service and consumption of alcohol. NAB Acquires SALIDO.

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First Robotic Mobile Restaurant and DoorDash’s Commissary Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

Parts Town and Heritage Foodservice Group are coming together to strengthen their OEM (original equipment manufacturer) parts distribution capabilities. By coming together, we can create one of the truly great technology-enabled distribution businesses found in any industry. Parts Town and Heritage Combine. Plant-Based Learning.

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New & Notable: TEAM Schostak Celebrates 40, AI in Food Service and Beachy Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

.” 7shifts Launches Tip Pooling. 7shifts launched a new solution designed to help operators and managers streamline the complicated and time-consuming tip tracking and distribution process. " Tip Pooling has been designed to offer three benefits to operators and managers: Create and customize tip pools with ease.

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State of the Industry and More Restaurant Research

Modern Restaurant Management

" At least 4 in 10 operators in each of the three limited-service segments — quickservice, fast casual, and coffee and snack — believe the addition of drive-thru lanes will become more common in 2023. Only one in ten operators think recruiting and retaining employees will be easier in 2023 than it was in 2022.

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