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10 Common Pitfalls in Restaurant Build-Outs

Modern Restaurant Management

Opening a new restaurant is exciting. When you find a space that’s perfect, you want to jump in and get moving on the build-out. However, there are many potential issues to keep in mind to prevent costly headaches, or worse, lawsuits. Below are ten potential pitfalls that could lead to litigation and delay that grand opening. Pitfall #1: Signing a lease without negotiating the build-out terms.

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The Importance of Communicating Cleanliness After COVID-19

Next Restaurants

Retailers and brands are facing significant challenges on a variety of fronts during the COVID-19 crisis , especially in health and safety. Keeping the workforce safe and working areas clean are top concerns. What happens if you don’t take the cleanliness steps required? You end up like Tyson. Not only do you have sick workers, but you lose productivity, have to close, and suffer significant damage to your brand.

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Restaurant Runaways: How to Get Your Money

Modern Restaurant Management

There are many cases of people running away from a restaurant without paying for the meal they have had. There are just as many reasons why people dine and dash without thinking about the potential of getting a criminal record. Depending on which part of the country the offense is committed in, the perpetrator can be charged with petty theft or a felony and can potentially face jail time and a fine.

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Restaurateurs Leverage Excess Alcohol for Cash Flow

Restaurant Engine

Faced with mounting bills, many restaurant owners have been selling down their bottled reserves. Benefiting from long shelf life, unopened alcohol bottles are usually the most valuable tangible assets aside from a restaurateur’s actual building. During the next few months, owners expect low patronage anyway due to social distancing rules, so selling extra bottles will not likely affect sales significantly.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Setting Up Your Cloud Kitchen? These Are The Operational Processes To Follow

The Restaurant Times

Cloud Kitchens, also known as dark kitchens, ghost kitchens, virtual restaurants, and delivery-only restaurants, run entirely on the strength of their back-of-house operations. However, they put heavy emphasis on improving food production and order management. As the kitchen infrastructure is the backbone of every cloud kitchen restaurant, it should be well managed and organized.

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Virtual Happy Hours: The Key to Engaging New Customers during COVID-19

Evergreen

Current social distancing regulations and health precautions can make it feel like you’re navigating a never-ending obstacle course. You’ve probably had to get creative to keep serving customers while your physical doors may be closed. It doesn’t look […]. The post Virtual Happy Hours: The Key to Engaging New Customers during COVID-19 appeared first on Evergreen.

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4 Ways that a Digital Reporting Platform Will Improve Your Business

FreshCheq

A digital reporting platform can do a lot to not only improve your business but streamline your restaurant logs.

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Recommendations for Restarting Your PoS

Squirrel Systems

As regions and markets start to re-open dining rooms, we have some guidelines on how to ensure your Squirrel PoS is operational and functioning correctly. This useful guide will help you restart your PoS and includes a series of tests to verify that all aspects of your system are working correctly. This self-guided process includes: Starting, stopping, and restarting the business day.

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Safe Distancing Tech and a Farewell to Foam

Modern Restaurant Management

In this edition of MRM News Bites, read about efforts to help the restaurant industry and heroes as well as "new normal" restaurant technology and products. Dining Bond Goes Global. The Dining Bond Initiative, a campaign that helps get funds to restaurants impacted by the coronavirus COVID-19, has gone global. Since its inception in mid-March, more than 500 restaurants around the world have joined the program and are reporting sales ranging from several thousand dollars to up to $60,000.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Hospitality Will Have To Change in the Aftermath of COVID-19

The Restaurant Manifesto

Despite significant breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, technology has yet to supplant the presence of waiters in restaurants. In theory, a technological alternative would be much more efficient. Waiters are prone to mistakes. They show up late for work, they bungle orders, they give attitude to guests, they spend fifteen minutes in the bathroom checking their … Continue reading "Hospitality Will Have To Change in the Aftermath of COVID-19".

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We're Eating At Home And It's Costing Us More

The Salt

The latest inflation data offers a snapshot of Americans' new pandemic spending habits. Prices are down for most goods and services but up sharply for groceries.

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2017 Black Stallion Cabernet Sauvignon Gaspare Vineyard Oak Knoll District of Napa Valley

Planet Grape

The post 2017 Black Stallion Cabernet Sauvignon Gaspare Vineyard Oak Knoll District of Napa Valley appeared first on planet grape® wine review.

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NTN Buzztime, Inc. to Discuss First-Quarter Results on May 19, 2020

Buzztime Business

CARLSBAD, Calif., May 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — NTN Buzztime, Inc. (NYSE American: NTN) announced it will conduct a conference call to discuss its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2020 at 4:30 P.M. ET on Tuesday, May 19, 2020. CEO Allen Wolff will host the call and will answer questions submitted in… The post NTN Buzztime, Inc. to Discuss First-Quarter Results on May 19, 2020 appeared first on Buzztime.

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Planning Your Restaurant's Path to Profitability

Speaker: James Kahler, COO of Full Course

Ever wondered where to splurge and where to safely conserve when it comes to operating and growing your restaurant? 🤔 Join James Kahler, COO of Full Course and industry visionary, in this new webinar where he'll talk all about best practices to invest in your restaurant's success! Whether you're a new business or an established restaurant, a seasoned pro or a rookie, you'll learn the keys to sustainable success in this competitive industry.

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2019 Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough

Planet Grape

The post 2019 Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc Marlborough appeared first on planet grape® wine review.

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2018 SeaFall Chardonnay Sonoma Coast

Planet Grape

The post 2018 SeaFall Chardonnay Sonoma Coast appeared first on planet grape® wine review.

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2018 Black Stallion Chardonnay Napa Valley

Planet Grape

The post 2018 Black Stallion Chardonnay Napa Valley appeared first on planet grape® wine review.

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