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How to Calculate Inventory PAR Levels

Apicbase

Tight inventory management is crucial to the profitability of any restaurant business, but it’s especially important for multi-outlet businesses, where mistakes and small discrepancies are multiplied many times over. If you’re uncertain about how much of each item you need to order, purchasing becomes an anxiety-inducing nightmare. But when you have reliable inventory information and PAR levels figured out, you can send purchase orders with confidence.

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Technology Revitalized Guest Experience (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

In this episode of " The Main Course ," Johnny Tellez, VP of International Operations and Training at Focus Brands International, discusses how the customer experience has changed during the pandemic, the role technology has played in these changes, and how restaurants are adapting their use of technology to enhance customer experience. In this conversation with host MRM Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia, Tellez talks about The impact of the pandemic on international restaurant operatio

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Another pizza franchisee is hit with a driver lawsuit

Restaurant Business

A Pizza Hut operator in the Midwest was sued in a federal court after allegedly underpaying delivery drivers for the use of their personal cars. Such lawsuits are remarkably common.

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How Customers Really Feel About AI at Drive-Thrus

Modern Restaurant Management

Like most headline-grabbing technology, artificial intelligence (AI) has its pros and cons. But like it or not, AI is being implemented in so many industries, including foodservice, and is here to stay. For readers seasoned enough to remember, there was a time 20-30 years ago when mobile phones were being tried on for size by consumers. There was a mixture of early adopters and those who questioned cell phones’ staying power.

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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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When it comes to franchisees, is smaller better?

Restaurant Business

The Bottom Line: Subway wants bigger operators. Burger King wants smaller operators. Which one is the right strategy? Both.

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Mastering restaurant email marketing: 5 essential strategies for success

Tableo

Email marketing is becoming a crucial tool for promoting restaurants, cultivating client loyalty and encouraging repeat business in. In this post, we’ll examine five key tactics that are crucial for mastering restaurant email marketing and achieving outstanding results. So let’s start right now! 1. Build a high quality email list The first step in laying a solid foundation for your email marketing campaigns begins with building a good email list.

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3 Ways Domino’s Largest Franchise Promotes Operational Consistency

Crunchtime

With thousands of competitors in the restaurant industry, operators must find ways to get their brands to stand out from the competition. The cleanliness of the store entrance, the freshness of food on display, and other aspects of a visit may not always be noticed by visitors, but operations leaders know that the key to creating repeat customers is to provide outstanding service to customers consistently.

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Tableo wins the Summer 2023 Top Performer Award in Restaurant Management Software Category from SourceForge

Tableo

Tableo is proud to be a winner of the Top Performer award from SourceForge, the world’s largest software reviews and comparison website. July 2023 – Tableo, a leading restaurant reservation and management software , today announced that it has been awarded a Summer 2023 Top Performer Award by SourceForge, the world’s largest software and services review and comparison website.

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3 Ways Domino’s Largest Franchise Promotes Operational Consistency

Crunchtime

With thousands of competitors in the restaurant industry, operators must find ways to get their brands to stand out from the competition. The cleanliness of the store entrance, the freshness of food on display, and other aspects of a visit may not always be noticed by visitors, but operations leaders know that the key to creating repeat customers is to provide outstanding service to customers consistently.

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Celebrate National Tequila Day: A Journey into Mexico’s Iconic Spirit

Tableo

24th July marks National Tequila Day, a celebration of Mexico’s beloved spirit! Tequila enthusiasts around the world come together to honour the rich history, craftsmanship, and diverse flavours that make tequila a global favourite. Tequila’s history Tequila is deeply rooted in Mexican culture and has a history that dates back to 250 / 300 AD.

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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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Dessert chains venture into Barbie land with their latest marketing push

Restaurant Business

Marketing Bites: Pinkberry and Cold Stone Creamery feed into the Barbie frenzy, Dunkin’ launches summer merchandise and Taco Bell is giving rewards members a say in its sauce packet redesign.

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A Recipe for a Magical Mango Pudding Cake

EATER

Dina Ávila/Eater Baked in a skillet, it splits open to reveal a rich pudding beneath its crisp crust I moved to New York when I was 18. Not long after that, I enrolled in culinary school on a student loan. It was a disorienting choice at times, even though I kept telling myself that pursuing a trade was “practical.” Most of my friends and roommates were in college preparing for serious careers, and I was in a wrinkled chef’s coat forgetting to dissolve cake yeast into liquid before adding it to

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Burger King tests 2 new riffs on its iconic Chicken Fries

Restaurant Business

Chicken & Waffle and Chicken Parm Fries are available for a limited time exclusively in Boston.

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The Dozen – Susana Balbo

Sante

New releases from Argentina’s pioneering winemaker.

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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 Spike Mendelsohn is changing up healthy eating in the fast-casual and snack spaces

Restaurant Business

The TV celeb and former fine-dining chef is expanding his ventures PLNT Burger and Eat the Change while continuing his food policy activism.

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Madhur Jaffrey's no fuss introduction to Indian cooking

The Salt

Madhur Jaffrey says she never took cooking seriously, and it may be her secret to her success: "I love to eat and when you do, you think of all the possibilities.

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Pizzerias face growing competition from convenience stores

Restaurant Business

Wawa and Casey’s are upping their pizza games, threatening to take share from other pizza players.

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The 38 Essential Sydney Restaurants

EATER

The Sydney Opera House, home to some of Sydney’s best food. | Tooykrub/Shutterstock Native ginger-mango morning buns celebrating Indigenous cooking, world-famous seafood from a James Beard-winning chef, ramen inspired by avocado toast, a pavlova shaped like the Opera House, and more of Sydney’s best meals There’s more to Sydney’s dining scene than avocado toast , which Bill Granger made famous at his inner-city Darlinghurst cafe in 1993.

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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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What might be the next Cronut, McRib or Pumpkin Spice Latte? We have some thoughts.

Restaurant Business

Reality Check: The RB staff put down its forks long enough to speculate on what could be the next big thing menu-wise. Here are our bets, longshot and otherwise.

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Maggiano's President Steve Provost to retire

Restaurant Business

The longtime Brinker executive, industry veteran and onetime presidential speechwriter will step down at the end of August.

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Sizzler reaches back almost 40 years for a re-introduction to lapsed customers

Restaurant Business

The steak-and-salad-bar concept is running ads again, playing off the signature deals that made it a 1980s hit.

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