Fri.Sep 08, 2023

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Six Important Steps Restaurants Should Take to Build a Strong Food Safety Culture

Modern Restaurant Management

Ensuring food safety is essential for restaurant brands and others within the food industry. A weak food safety culture can have severe consequences, including product recalls, foodborne illnesses, reputational damage, diminished customer loyalty, and financial losses. Restaurants and other food businesses must prioritize building and maintaining a strong food safety culture to mitigate these risks.

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A Square Outage Hits the Service Industry Hard

EATER

Square’s point-of-sale system is used by millions of small businesses. | Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images The point-of-sale system has experienced widespread disruptions to multiple services On Thursday, the payment processing company Square experienced a widespread outage. The point-of-sale system is used by millions of small businesses, including restaurants and food vendors, and the network’s downtime left many of them unable to process transactions.

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New 'super-regional' distribution network aims to rival the big nationals

Restaurant Business

Legacy Food Group has acquired four local distributors and said it intends to offer the benefits of scale without the headaches.

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‘Climate-Friendly’ Beef Could Land in a Meat Aisle Near You. Don’t Fall for It.

EATER

The meat giant says some of its USDA-approved burgers are climate-smart, but it refuses to explain how.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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Square outage disrupts business for restaurants nationwide

Restaurant Business

The issue began Thursday and prevented operators from accepting payments for hours. It appeared to have been resolved by Friday afternoon.

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“Make This If You Can”

EATER

People are printing out favorite cocktail recipes, from preferred Martini specs to unhinged tequila drinks, to hand to bartenders on cards.

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Join Eater on Book Tour in NYC, LA, SF, Portland, DC, and More

EATER

We’re coming to a city near you to celebrate out first ever cookbook As Eater gears up for the publication of its first ever cookbook, Eater: 100 Essential Restaurant Recipes from the Authority on Where to Eat and Why It Matters , we’ve been busy planning events around the country. Events will spotlight local chefs and industry insiders featured in the cookbook and run the gamut from parties to bookstore signings to panel talks to demos.

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Love is in the air for Cinnabon and Slim Jim

Restaurant Business

Marketing Bites: Slim Jim and Cinnabon plan a wedding, Wendy’s brings back its Frosty Boo! Books and restaurant chains celebrate National Waffle Week.

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115: Thriving with Brahm at the Inn at Shaker Mill Falls

Food Business

Brahm is the farmer at the regenerative farm at The Inn at Shaker Mill Farm. Listen to this episode as an expert on how regenerative farming, is much like speaking another language in it's ability to give you new perspective, and positive perspective on life. This episode is as much about the life force that you carry in your daily life as it is about how regernative farming is the life force for our planets future.

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Restaurants might have dodged a bullet with DOL's overtime-pay proposal. Here's why.

Restaurant Business

Working Lunch: Restaurants will feel the impact, but the new rules could have been far worse.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

Mid-year performance reviews aren’t just boxes for HR to check. Paycor’s toolkit empowers leaders to: Identify high-potential team members. Boost engagement with meaningful feedback. Support struggling employees. Nurture top talent to drive results. Learn how to ignite employee potential through meaningful feedback. When you nurture top talent, everybody wins.

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The Most Anticipated Restaurant Openings Landing in U.S. Cities This Fall

EATER

The team behind Ittoryu Gozu in the Bay Area is bringing a listening bar with yakitori skewers and whiskey to Mission Street. | Patricia Chang /Eater Get ready for juicy yakitori and hi-fi vibes, kamayan-style Filipino tasting menus, and more It wouldn’t be fall without a whole lot of restaurant and bar openings, and chefs across the nation are delivering.

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In appreciation of White Castle's Impossible Slider

Restaurant Business

The Bottom Line: The burger chain kicked off the plant-based, fast-food trend with the introduction of the menu item five years ago. While the trend has slowed at quick-service concepts, that doesn’t make the move any less important.

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The Dozen – Blanc Page

Sante

Is Sauvignon Blanc becoming as ubiquitous as Chardonnay as a go-to white?

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3 business legends reveal their restaurant plans

Restaurant Business

Reality Check: Starbucks’ Howard Schultz, Tesla’s Elon Musk, and serial tech disruptor Marc Lore are betting they can change the restaurant industry with new ventures. Here’s a look at what they’re envisioning.

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8 Pillars of Leadership Development

Great leadership development is the key to sustainable business growth. Are you ready to design an effective program? HR can use Paycor’s framework to: Set achievable goals. Align employee and company needs. Support different learning styles. Empower the next generation of leaders. Invest in your company’s future with a strong leadership development program.

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Cooking chicken soup for the Shabbat soul

The Salt

Cookbook author Adeena Sussman makes Dilly Chicken and Rice Soup from her book Shabbat: Recipes and Rituals from My Table to Yours.

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Sizzler aims for a renaissance by unabashedly embracing its past

Restaurant Business

The chain plans to remind lapsed patrons of what they once enjoyed, with hopes they'll bring younger members of the family back with them.

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Restaurant Sales - DC - August 2023

Margin Edge

Full Service and Fast Casual DMV restaurants in August showed strong sales growth. Sales for both segments ended the month of August on a high, bringing summer to a close with some great news!

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Zunzi's and Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken name new executives

Restaurant Business

Executive Summary: A roundup of high-level job changes in the restaurant business includes appointments for Fontainebleau Las Vegas.

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8 Pillars of Leadership Development

Great leadership development is the key to sustainable business growth. Are you ready to design an effective program? HR can use Paycor’s framework to: Set achievable goals. Align employee and company needs. Support different learning styles. Empower the next generation of leaders. Invest in your company’s future with a strong leadership development program.

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Adeena Sussman's new cookbook includes Shabbat recipes from around the world

The Salt

NPR's Daniel Estrin visits cookbook author Adeena Sussman to talk about her latest book, Shabbat: Recipes and Rituals from My Table to Yours.

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34 Restaurant Subject Lines that Converts

The Eat Restaurant

Discover how to create subject lines for restaurant emails that work and give samples of effective subject lines for a range of themes and situations.

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How I Got My Job: Making Knives for Top Chefs

EATER

Photoillustration: Lille Allen/Eater; portrait: Andrew Cebulka Quintin Middleton apprenticed as a bladesmith, making swords before turning to custom chef’s knives 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. Today’s installment: Quintin Middleton. In 2008, after six years of working as a bladesmith’s apprentice, learning to craft hunting knives and swords, Quintin Middleton had a life-changing dream.

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‘In Pursuit of Flavor’ Taught Us to Treat Ingredients With Respect

EATER

Lille Allen/Eater Edna Lewis’s third cookbook reminds us that it’s the raw materials that make food taste the way it’s supposed to taste In one respect, Edna Lewis’s childhood put her at an advantage over many American chefs: She grew up knowing what food should taste like. This happened in Freetown, a small farming community in central Virginia founded just after the Civil War by three newly emancipated Blacks, including Lewis’s grandfather, Chester Lewis.

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How to Set Better OKRs and Drive Results

Before you can achieve success, you have to define it. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) give you the framework to do just that. Paycor’s free guide includes a step-by-step process leaders can use to work toward – and achieve – their loftiest business goals.