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

Modern Restaurant Management

Bonus Tip : Create a simple FAQ document to address common employee questions about coverage options. Bonus Tip : If you don’t already have one, consider launching an employee referral program that offers incentives, such as free meals or company merchandise, when a referred candidate is successfully hired and stays with the team.

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Is Your Ice Cream Too Cold? Lessons in Fighting Friendly Fraud

Modern Restaurant Management

A merchant typically has 45 days to dispute a chargeback and even when they do, they need to have kept meticulous records about the condition of the merchandise, the transaction itself as well as the delivery method, often including pictures.

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Publish Your Website with These Best Restaurant Website Builders

7 Shifts

Shopify was built for e-commerce, so it's an optimal choice if you want to sell merchandise on your restaurant's website. They're limited to documentation, email, and online chat, so you won't be able to get live support over the phone. Shopify What makes Shopify a great restaurant website builder?

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How to Open a Coffee Shop: The Ultimate Guide

7 Shifts

View your lean plan as an ever-evolving document you can revisit, and revise, as new information surfaces. Shelving if you're selling merchandise like hats or t-shirts. Instead, create a short or lean plan of a few pages to help validate your idea without getting caught up in the details. But how do you create this plan?

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5 New Restaurant Trends That Will Boost Your Profitability

Cheetah

In response, people are looking for personalized experiences they can document and share online. Instagrammable merchandise like T-shirts is a relatively simple way of reaching that lifestyle vibe and driving social media engagement. This also allows them to collect data on customer purchases to help them better tweak the menu.

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Understanding Restaurant Finances & Financial Statements in 2024

7 Shifts

Total sales Total sales is the total revenue from all sales, from food and beverages to other sources like catering or merchandise. This document allows you to gather all your data in one place, including your income, expenses, and cash flow. Analyzing these metrics allows you to make informed decisions to improve profitability.

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The Devil is in The Detail – providing avenues for asset growth through F&B operational excellence

Future Food

This tailored document will provide operational foundation for each operator, exemplifying the recommended standard for topics such as uniform and grooming, visual merchandising, food ticketing and safe food handling just to name a few.