Wed.Jul 10, 2019

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Restaurant Consumer Trends: Demographics, Lifestyle and Technology

The Restaurant Group

How Demographics, Lifestyle, and Technology are Changing Restaurant Consumer Trends. In general, demographics refer to quantitative characteristics such as age, gender, and geographic location used in marketing to segment large populations into small, marketable groups with similar characteristics and collectively influence many consumer trends, behaviors, and expectations.

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5 Reasons Why You Need a Restaurant Management Software Solution in 2019

Margin Edge

Everybody has a different reason for getting into the restaurant business, but shuffling paper and maintaining spreadsheets usually isn’t among them. Yet that is how much of a chef or restaurateur’s time is spent: manually entering invoices, taking inventory counts with paper and a clipboard or reviewing sales results from a point-of-sale system and trying to reconcile them with the purchasing and food cost data kept separately on spreadsheets.

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Summer is a Good Time for Restaurant Owners to Focus on Preventing Communicable Diseases

Hospitality Insurance Group

By: Richard E. Welch, Jr. President & CEO, Hospitality Insurance Group. An outbreak of a foodborne illness is the angst of every restaurant owner. This type of risk at a restaurant could have significant consequences, potentially leading to liability, reputation damage, fines & penalties, or ultimately closure of the restaurant. As more people dine out at restaurants this summer, it is worth highlighting that the warmer months are the peak season for foodborne illnesses.