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The Tipping Fatigue Struggle Is Real

Modern Restaurant Management

The rising cost of goods and services has given some consumers pause over how much gratuity they are willing to leave at restaurants. With inflation continuing to reach near 40-year highs, tipping for takeout and delivery dropped to 14.5 percent in the second quarter of 2022. With the holidays coming up, restaurants don’t want to be caught short-staffed and underprepared for the increase in customer volume, as this can contribute to patron dissatisfaction and lower tips.

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Eater’s Best New Restaurants 2022

EATER

Ellen Mary Cronin. Eat here now. Thank us later. At Eater, we love answering the question: What’s the best place to eat right now? In 2022, by far the most normal-feeling year in, well, years, chefs and restaurateurs have been chasing passions and opening dream projects. This is the year that a bakery — not a bakery-plus-restaurant, not a bakery with a savory menu too, just a damn good bakery — can feel revolutionary, even when sticking to the classics.

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Why Earned Wage Access Is the Perfect Gift For Employees

Modern Restaurant Management

With the holidays upon us, restaurants and hospitality organizations are jumping on earned wage access (EWA) as a fee-free way to combat the labor shortage we've seen organizations face in 2022. EWA allows employees to receive a portion of their earned wages the same day they work at no cost to the worker or employer and helps close the gap during financially tight times between traditional paydays.

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Sweetgreen COO Chris Carr to step down in 2023

Restaurant Business

SVP Stephanie Traut will take over leadership of operations for the fast-casual salad chain.

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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 do you pour great latte art at home?

Perfect Daily Grind

When the majority of out-of-home coffee businesses closed in the first few months of the pandemic, many consumers started to make more coffee at home. As part of this, more and more people wanted to create café-quality beverages themselves – including milk-based drinks. However, it’s safe to say that pouring high-quality latte art can be difficult, even for those with more experience and skills.

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Are these the weirdest concepts the restaurant industry has ever seen?

Restaurant Business

Restaurant Rewind: At a time of rampant format development, it’s appropriate to consider the great misfires of the past.

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Winter Gift & Promotion Ideas for Your Shared Kitchen Food Businesses

The Food Corridor

The nights are drawing in and temperatures are dropping across the United States. Especially in the Northern States and Canada. People are eating more and craving comfort foods during the winter months. With ordering takeout and food for delivery at an all-time high already, the cold winter months only exacerbate the trend – as most people are going out less in the cold weather.

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Bertucci’s declares bankruptcy for a second time

Restaurant Business

The brick oven pizza chain, which also sought debt protection in 2018, blamed the pandemic and inflation for its problems.

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Michelin Awards Stars to 8 New Los Angeles Restaurants for 2022

EATER

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Group opposed to the tip credit leans on Applebee's to drop it

Restaurant Business

One Fair Wage is planning protests and a publicity war to goad the chain into paying servers the full minimum wage.

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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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Michelin Guide California Awards Stars to Four San Diego Restaurants

EATER

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4 secrets behind Sonic’s menu success

Restaurant Business

Mackenzie Gibson, Sonic’s VP of culinary and menu innovation, shares an inside look at her team's R&D mindset. .

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Netflix’s Drink Masters Delves Into the Murky Realms of Mixology

EATER

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Chili's owner to part ways with supply chain chief Charlie Lousignont

Restaurant Business

Lousignont has been with Brinker International since 2014. It's the latest leadership change under new CEO Kevin Hochman.

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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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Here Are All the New San Francisco Bay Area Michelin Starred Restaurants for 2022

EATER

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At your service: A restaurant maître d' tells all in 'Your Table Is Ready'

The Salt

Michael Cecchi-Azzolina has worked in several high-end New York City restaurants — adrenaline-fueled workplaces where booze and drugs are plentiful and the health inspector will ruin your day.

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Gifts for the Aspiring TikTok Food Influencer

EATER

The best things to buy the person who gets all their recipes from TikTok For new and inexperienced home cooks, TikTok has emerged as an obvious destination for finding interesting — and occasionally viral — recipes. In addition to serving up dishes from all different types of creators and cuisines, the app also provides the opportunity for newbies to actually watch the process of how a dish is made in just a couple of minutes, and that alone has likely inspired many to start experimenting in the

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Chorizo & Cheese Jambons

Gastro Gays

Who doesn’t love a jambon? Staple of the Irish deli counter, ultimate comforting snack on-the-go, unbelievably easy to achieve at home. A jambon is a buttery, flaky pastry with a creamy cheesy filling that’s the… The post Chorizo & Cheese Jambons appeared first on GastroGays.

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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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How to pack the house on day 1

Open for Business

The post How to pack the house on day 1 appeared first on OpenTable Resources.

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Matt Lucas’s Time on ‘Great British Bake Off’ Is Cooked

EATER

Matt Lucas, goodbye. | Photo by Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images. Who should replace the divisive baking show host? After three seasons, 51 episodes, and a whole lot of viewer anguish, Great British Baking Show co-host Matt Lucas is leaving the tent for good. I personally could not be more thrilled, and it seems like just about everyone else on the internet feels exactly the same way.

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