SpotOn

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Lynn Kupczyk is a Lead Designer on the SpotOn marketing team. She's designed menus, Instagram ads, and logos for small businesses. When she's not supporting local restaurants, she's at home with her two rescue dogs, Pip and Daisy, and bird, Paco. Your restaurant menu defines your restaurant. But it’s not set in stone—it’s a living document that reflects your restaurant’s personality and evolution and is an important tool for maximizing profitability.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has intensified its focus on industries that employ large numbers of undocumented workers, and restaurants remain a top target. The question isn’t if ICE will show up—it’s when. And when that moment comes, will your team know what to do? Recent enforcement actions highlight the severe consequences businesses face for non-compliance.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Did you really have a Super Bowl party if you didnt eat guacamole out of the end zone of a miniature football field? The biggest of Big Games is nearly upon us, and that means it is once again time to assemble a miniature football stadium out of snacks a pastime that, in my opinion, is at least equally as enjoyable as actually watching football. Whereas attempting to build a gingerbread house never fails to bring me to tears, constructing a snack stadium is more akin to therapeutic macaroni art

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The Salt

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that just nine children's cereal brands advertised directly to kids dominated purchases by families with kids:Cocoa Puffs, Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops, Honey Nut Cheerios, Lucky Charms, Pebbles, Reese's Puffs, Toast Crunch and Trix.'/> One of the top sources of added sugar in kids' diets is in their breakfast bowls.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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.

Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The spread of avian flu is creating an egg shortage that has spiked prices. Restaurant operators are struggling to cope with higher costs.

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Sante

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In the early morning hours, long before the sun breaks the horizon, a seasoned bread baker feeds his sour dough Continue Reading The post Building a Culture of Food and Wine appeared first on Sant.Food.Wine.Spirits.

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Crunchtime

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

It wasnt easy narrowing down the top five finalists for the 2024 Ops Excellence Awardsthere were so many incredible nominations. It's been truly inspiring to see the amazing progress so many restaurant teams are making in their journey toward operational excellence. The finalists BBQ Holdings , Five Guys , Jersey Mikes , SPB Hospitality , and Triple T Hospitality have fully embraced technology to solve challenges while consistently exceeding expectations.

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Evergreen

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Running a successful bar or restaurant means managing countless details. Evergreens robust beverage database provides tools to simplify operations, from menu creation to supplier relationships. Heres how it helps. Effortless Menu Creation Crafting accurate, attractive menus is a breeze with Evergreen. Its database includes over a million beverages, complete with detailed information like ABVs and.

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Sante

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In the early morning hours, long before the sun breaks the horizon, a seasoned bread baker feeds his sour dough Continue Reading The post Building a Culture of Food and Wine appeared first on Sant.Food.Wine.Spirits.

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Web Diner

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In today’s digital-first dining landscape, your restaurant’s website isn’t just a digital business cardit’s your virtual host, menu presenter, and sales team. Yet many restaurant owners wonder why their beautifully designed websites aren’t converting browsers into buyers. The answer lies beyond aesthetic appeal in the subtle psychology of customer behavior and strategic design elements that drive action.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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.

EATER

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Eater Staff From a Sriracha game to Guy Fieri-themed Monopoly, these games are a great go-to after-dinner-party activity Food-related board games have come a long way since the Candyland of my youth. These days, theres a game for practically every niche food obsession, from SPAM to Sriracha. I come from a long line of game-lovers, and Im smack dab in the middle of a campaign to pass that love on to my two kids, ages 13 and six, so Im always on the lookout for the next great game I can share with

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

A hacker gained access to names and contact information stored in the delivery companys customer support system. The situation is now fully contained.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Chicken Guy!

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Tech Check: The chain is testing software that sequences orders rather than fulfilling them as they arrive. Its not a novel idea, but it could make a big difference.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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.

Leadership

EATER

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Eater Staff From a Sriracha game to Guy Fieri-themed Monopoly, these games are a great go-to after-dinner-party activity Food-related board games have come a long way since the Candyland of my youth. These days, theres a game for practically every niche food obsession, from SPAM to Sriracha. I come from a long line of game-lovers, and Im smack dab in the middle of a campaign to pass that love on to my two kids, ages 13 and six, so Im always on the lookout for the next great game I can share with

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

About half of the fast-casual chain's avocados come from Mexico and sourcing has shifted to other countries. Food costs would likely increase less than 1% if tariffs are put in place.

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The Salt

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Bird flu is forcing farmers to slaughter millions of chickens a month, pushing U.S. egg prices to more than double their cost in the summer of 2023.

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The fast-food giant is bringing back the Shamrock Shake and is using a character it hasnt employed in 40 years as it works to recover from a tough end to 2024.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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.

Leadership

EATER

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The presidents tiff with Canada may be paused, but the impact has already made its way into exports

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Full-service True Food Kitchen is eliminating seed oils across its 46 locations, transitioning to avocado and olive oil.

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EATER

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Welcome to the LOLfood era, where as the world burns, the beautiful eat pizza rolls The pizza rolls on the menu really sealed it for me. Id seen other inklings that food these days was trending a little comfort first, brain second. But perusing the menu of the buzzy Corner Store and seeing five cheese pizza rolls served with ranch solidified my instinct that something was up, and just made me cackle out loud.

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The tech company is integrating its Olo Pay service with payment gateway FreedomPay, which will help it process more in-person orders.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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.

EATER

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Getty Images Bird flu outbreaks have caused egg prices to rise, forcing some restaurants either adapt recipes or raise menu prices Toward the end of 2024, James Wong of the San Francisco bakery Breadbelly was already mentally preparing for his egg prices to go up: They also spiked at the end of 2022 and 2023 , due to nationwide bird flu outbreaks. Its definitely more prevalent, Wong says.

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Menu Talk: Pat and Bret chat about food and drink trends and share an interview with Chris Smith, CEO of Zunzis and Zunzibar.

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The Detroit-style pizza chain received a $32.5 million growth investment from majority investor Savory Fund along with Asilia Investments and Brightwood Capital. The concept plans to double its unit count by 2028.

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Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The Bottom Line: An aging population could be putting some pressure on industry sales, as older people tend to eat out less often.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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.