Tue.Dec 08, 2020

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7 Restaurant Employee Contest Ideas to Boost Sales and Engagement

7 Shifts

What if we told you that there was a great strategy to increase your restaurant’s sales while engaging your staff and reducing turnover? There is a way—and it’s through creating employee contests. According to a study by Quantum Workplace , highly engaged 20 percent higher sales and are 21 percent more profitable. Engaged employees are also less likely to turnover. 47% of restaurants were negatively affected by employee turnover in 2019, with less than a third of restaurateurs reporting that tur

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COOKS AND THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS

Culinary Cues

Sweat was creeping down Alex’s back. The line was just 15 minutes into the 7 o’clock push and the board was full. The pressure was on, but Alex was on his game – he was wearing an ear-to-ear smile because he knew he was in the zone. The line team was in total sync: Alex looked at his sous chef expediting on the other side of the pass – his eyes said: bring it on chef.

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Is ‘Menu Scraping’ Legal for Third-Party Delivery Services?

Modern Restaurant Management

The advent of on-demand food delivery can be traced back to the early 2000s when the use of GrubHub, Seamless and numerous other online and mobile food-ordering systems became commonplace among college students and young professionals throughout the United States. Gone were the days of leafing through a pile of crumpled menus to order takeout. Now, one could quickly search for local restaurants, view their menus, and order and pay online.

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The Kitchen Connection: 5 Ways to Streamline Your Restaurant Kitchen Operations to Increase Customer Satisfaction

Sante

Here are the top five things to focus on when streamlining your kitchen operations to improve your restaurant experience and achieve your overall goal of making customers happy. Kaitlin Keefer, Editor/Square. Chefs and restaurant owners decide to start their business because of a love for food and a desire to bring that food to the mouths of people in their community.

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Planning Your Restaurants 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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Why Food Traceability Is So Important Now (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

In this week's episode of The Main Course host Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia speaks with Angela Fernandez , the Vice President of Community Engagement at? GS1 US , the information standards organization?, about food safety and traceability. To listen, click here. A new episode of The Main Course , our podcast series with MarketScale, is served up every Tuesday.

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It’s Time Food Distributors Make the Leap to E-Commerce

Cheetah

Reading Time: 3 minutes. Small food distributors, like small restaurant owners, are usually afraid to make big leaps into the digital world of e-commerce. We know what chefs are like, they want to pick their produce themselves, they don’t necessarily trust buying online, definitely not for fresh produce! But one thing Covid-19 has made abundantly clear, it’s that shopping online can work.

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Product Demo: Tyson™ Nashville Hot

Foodable

With ever-changing COVID-19 regulations and guidelines, operators are struggling to keep their restaurants afloat. Recover America is a virtual event committed to helping operators rebuild their business and better prepare for the future, providing local level consumer trends and key insights regarding the inner workings of the restaurant and hospitality industry.

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Festive Cocktails for Winter

Sante

Berry Beer détouré.jpg. Author(s): Stacey Sears. Teaser: After a long day of work or holiday preparations, this cocktail is a simple pleasure which is especially nice when enjoyed in front of a crackling fire or a tree decorated with lights. If you long for simple holiday cheer, nothing is as easy as this cocktail made with berries and dark beer. Any dark beer of your liking will do.

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Michelin Announces 2021 Stars for Tokyo

EATER

A dish from Sazenka, the first Chinese restaurant in Tokyo to get three Michelin stars | Sazenka. There are two new three-star restaurants in the most Michelin-starred city Tokyo is the latest stop on Michelin’s international dining guide tour, and the French tire company continues to be particularly generous with its starred designations in the Japanese city, which has more Michelin-star restaurants than any other.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Expressions Of Single Block Wines

The Wine Knitter

I am on the virtual road again, this time visiting Viña Ventisquero Winery with seven prime vineyards located throughout many of Chile’s wine regions. Photo courtesy of Ventisquero Winery Gonzalo Val, President of Agrosuper, one of Chile’s largest agro-industrial companies, owns the winery. Founded in 1998, Ventisquero was first established in the Maipo Valley, which is one of Chile’s most important wine-producing regions.

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The Crispy, Crunchy Taiwanese Fried Chicken Recipe DC Locals Adore

EATER

Maketto’s fried bird is coated in five-spice, honey, fish sauce, and chili oil “Practically every culture that eats chicken has come up with a way to crisp birds in hot oil,” wrote Osayi Endolyn in her essay “Fried Chicken Is Common Ground,” from You and I Eat the Same. There’s the Southern American version created by African and African-American cooks and now ubiquitous all over the country, behind glass counters in gas stations and sold by the bucket in supermarket chains; there’s Japanese kar

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Are your QSR employees following these 13 restaurant cash handling procedures?

Rocket Fuel

Are your QSR employees following these 13 restaurant cash handling procedures? The post Are your QSR employees following these 13 restaurant cash handling procedures? appeared first on Delaget.

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Eater Talks | How Restaurateurs Innovated Their Way Through 2020

EATER

The takeout window at Cubanos ATL | Ryan Fleisher /Eater. On Monday, December 14, four restaurateurs from across the U.S. share the challenges they faced in 2020 Eater Talks: How Restaurateurs Innovated Their Way Through 2020. December 14 — 1:30 p.m. ET / 10:30 a.m. PT. For restaurants, the consequences of the pandemic were immediate — and therefore so was the need to “pivot,” that cliched catchphrase of 2020.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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What Social Media Is Right for Your Restaurant? (Infographic)

Modern Restaurant Management

Social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest, make it easy to connect with potential customers. And, there are many different channels through which you can communicate with your audience. If you have limited time and money, how do you know which platforms you should be using to promote your restaurant? You won’t know which platforms work for you until you’ve tested them all to see which deliver the best results.

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Mario Lopez Stars as KFC’s Sexy Colonel Sanders in Lifetime ‘Mini Movie’

EATER

Colonel Sanders is getting the Lifetime treatment. | Photo: Lifetime. Plus, José Andrés writes about the hunger crisis, and more news to start your day Mario Lopez is somehow the perfect choice to play hot Colonel Sanders. In the stuntiest of stunts, KFC and Lifetime are releasing a “mini-movie” (read: extended commercial) starring Mario Lopez as a buff, salt-and-pepper-haired Colonel Sanders.

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I’m So Over Brands

EATER

Mario Lopez as Colonel Sanders | KFC. What I need is to sit in a dive bar with my friends without risking COVID-19, not a Lifetime extended commercial about KFC’s Colonel Sanders On Monday, I was reading through Curbed’s list of all the New York City businesses that have closed largely due to lack of financial support throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.