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Does California just hate restaurants?

Restaurant Business

Reality Check: The industry's largest state market is about to hit the business, a significant part of its economy, with all sorts of changes and new burdens. What gives?

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How AI and Gig Workers Will Improve Customer Service for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

The past few years have undeniably changed the restaurant industry in more ways than one could imagine. Especially during the pandemic, restaurants have grappled with unexpected challenges, particularly in maintaining exceptional customer service amidst shifting operational dynamics. But as with every challenge, innovation thrives. Enter AI and gig workers.

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Supermarket Food Waste Is a Big Problem. Is Dynamic Pricing the Solution?

EATER

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images According to a new study, grocery stores could keep more food out of landfills, increase profits, and pad customers’ pockets by adopting a practice widely used by airlines, hotels, and other industries This story was originally published on Civil Eats. Picture yourself grocery shopping. In the bread aisle, you see two loaves identically wrapped; both are perfectly edible, but one is a day older and costs half the price.

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Portillo's restaurant of the future: smaller box, lower costs but same 'ridiculously high' AUVs

Restaurant Business

At an Investor Day, company officials plot the 77-unit chain's path to 920 units across the U.S.

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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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Get a Powerful Bot for your Website

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Restaurants still look expensive, and consumers are reacting

Restaurant Business

The Bottom Line: Restaurants have stepped off the pricing gas. But sales are slowing and traffic is weak, and more operators are turning to price promotions.

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Dive into the heart of the Veloce POS inventory module

Veloce POS Blog

The restaurant sector is one of the areas that requires great rigor in the management of stocks and daily operations. That's why it's essential to be able to rely on tools that not only simplify management, but also optimize operations in depth. Veloce POS is this essential partner that has made itself indispensable thanks to its inventory module with rich and varied features.

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No, Really, Pasteurization Can Be Sexy

EATER

The preservation technique known as pasteurization has become a bad word in wine, but it can actually make some fermented beverages better.

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Calif. is poised to OK Amsterdam-style weed cafes

Restaurant Business

Dispensaries would be allowed to sell foods and beverages for on-site consumption, and feature live entertainment, under a bill heading for Gov. Newsom's signature. It also allows pot users to light up on-premise.

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How a Mississippi Barbecue Restaurant Makes Southern-Style Ribs

EATER

The Shed BBQ & Blues Joint sells 200-300 racks of ribs every four days Siblings Brad Orrison and Brooke Lewis run The Shed BBQ & Blues Joint and The Saucery in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where they specialize in crafting high-quality, Southern-style barbecue. Their baby back ribs in particular are among their most popular items — Guy Fieri even featured them on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.

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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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How small restaurant companies should think about marketing

Restaurant Business

A Deeper Dive: Marketing expert Chip Klose joins the podcast to talk about how small restaurant brands can keep pace with the big guys.

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Fed-up consumers are increasingly going after food companies for misleading claims

The Salt

This week a federal judge in Manhattan allowed a case to move forward against Starbucks over claims its fruit-based drinks were lacking fruit.

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10 most craveable chicken wings on chain menus

Restaurant Business

Wing orders tick up during football season, and these restaurants score high when it comes to satisfying consumers’ cravings.

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Kraft is recalling some American cheese slices over potential choking hazard

The Salt

The company said one of its wrapping machines developed a temporary issue that makes it possible for a thin strip of film to remain on the slice even after it's been removed from the wrapper.

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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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With Chicago set to kill the tip credit, labor advocates are focusing on the next domino

Restaurant Business

After local industry advocates dropped their opposition, a bill to phase out the employer payroll concession is being described as a done deal.

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Drought in Spain sends olive oil supply down and prices sky high

The Salt

A two-year drought and record heat have cut Spain's olive crop in half, doubling olive oil prices. Climate change will continue to drive prices up.

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Uber Eats is adding an AI chatbot to help people find restaurants

Restaurant Business

It’s one of four new app features the delivery company unveiled Wednesday, three of which are related to groceries.

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Georgia Restaurant Association names Stephanie Fischer CEO

Restaurant Business

The longtime industry veteran will succeed the retiring Karen Bremer starting Oct. 30.

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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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Krispy Kreme's competitors are not who you think

Restaurant Business

The doughnut chain is an “affordable luxury” that people gather to enjoy. Its competitors are not just Dunkin’ and other doughnut concepts but cake makers and even florists.

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Fla. resort draws fire for its handling of a nursing mother on the payroll

Restaurant Business

Federal enforcement officials say the Hammock did not meet the requirements set out in a new law called the PUMP Act.

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