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What Your Restaurant Website’s Data Can Tell You

Restaurant Engine

Data is king. Use it to grow your restaurant by fine-tuning your website. There is a saying by Thomas Redman, known as the “Data Doc,” that says, “Where there is data smoke, there is business fire.” So, if you want to light your marketing on fire and grow your business, data analytics is a must. In our digital age, data is knowledge, and knowledge is one of the keys to success.

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The Food Trends Set to Define 2025

Goliath Consulting

The upcoming year is shaping up to be an exciting time for food enthusiasts, with trends emphasizing bold flavors, creative uses of ingredients, and new culinary experiences. From reimagined classics to unique textures and flavor combinations, chefs will have plenty of inspiration to explore. Here’s a look at the food trends that will capture our taste buds and redefine dining in 2025.

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Restaurants are blocked from requiring staff to hear management's take on organizing

Restaurant Business

So-called captive-audience sessions have been deemed illegal by the National Labor Relations Board, though pundits predict the ban could be short-lived.

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Sidestep the complexities of Earned Wage Access: Provide an important benefit to attract and retain the right team

Rocket Fuel

In a competitive labor market, restaurant owners need every tool at their disposal to attract and retain productive employees and reduce turnover. Earned wage access (EWA) has become an important incentive for hourly workers. But many owners are reluctant to offer EWA because of the considerable technical challenges it often brings. In this article, we’ll take a look at what EWA is, why it’s important to your employees, and how restaurant owners can partner with experts to make EWA implementatio

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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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Cava's CEO: Here's how we'll remain best in breed

Restaurant Business

The restaurant industry has long watched category-leading brands, like Chipotle, Panera and Starbucks. Now all eyes are on the fast-casual Mediterranean chain as it defines the next cultural cuisine niche.

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At Vinai, Open-Fire Cooking Pays Respect to the Hmong People

EATER

How chef Yia Vang’s Minneapolis restaurant became one of the best in the country. For chef Yia Vang, live-fire cooking isn’t a trend. “This is actually a part of who I am,” he says. “This is how our people cooked hundreds of years ago. This is how our people cook today. If you go into the hills of Laos, into the mountains of Laos and you meet the Hmong people out there, this is how they still cook.

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An Immersion Blender Is a Necessary Tool for Soup Season

EATER

Lille Allen As simple as it is versatile, an immersion blender is way easier to wield than a regular blender The best White Elephant gift might just be an immersion blender. I’m biased because that’s what I once brought to a gift exchange, where I realized that, amongst the generic candles and portable speakers, it was the most useful tool of the bunch.

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Mushrooms, hot honey and Asian flavors among top trends expected on menus in 2025

Restaurant Business

The National Restaurant Association’s annual “What’s Hot” report reveals an evolution of 2024’s culinary trends, with a couple of surprises.

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Lord, Some of Amazon’s Best Black Friday Deals Are (Already) Here

EATER

Francky Knapp/Jordan Moss Staff-favorite cookware and coffee brands, from Keurig to Ninja to Le Creuset, are among the earliest stuff on sale Not so long ago, the words “Black Friday sales rush” were shorthand for watching people stampede each other for Cabbage Patch Dolls at 6 a.m. These days, however, the best Black Friday deals arrive early, online, and without curb stomping.

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Insurance rates are proving the hard cost of climate change

Restaurant Business

Restaurants are getting hit with big upswings in their premiums, even if they’re not in the paths of destruction.

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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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Having a Responsible and Successful Drinksgiving

Modern Restaurant Management

Drinksgiving aka Blackout Wednesday has become the lead-in to the holiday season. While there is an opportunity for restaurant operators to reap the benefits of increased alcohol sales, they must pay attention to the potential liability. States such as Pennsylvania and North Carolina enacted new laws earlier this year that allow their restaurant owners to serve alcohol for longer periods of time.

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Will a restaurant chain go public in 2025?

Restaurant Business

The IPO market has been mostly frozen. But a weak market for mergers and acquisitions is also keeping struggling companies from going private. The new year could change that dynamic.

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Don’t Count Out Cash

Modern Restaurant Management

The demise of cash payments might be exaggerated as 90 percent of people select cash as their most widely used payment method and 89 percent consider the ability to pay in cash as important for their customer satisfaction, according to Why Won't Cash Just Die??? , a research report from PayComplete. Among the highlights: More than two-thirds (69 percent) sayd they always have cash on them.

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The necessary evil of restaurant bankruptcies

Restaurant Business

The Bottom Line: The industry has been hit with a huge number of bankruptcies as a tough environment, higher interest rates hit overleveraged companies hard. But that could pave the way for more growth in the future.

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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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A Starry Inside Look at Texas’s First-Ever Michelin Guide Ceremony

EATER

Texas chefs and restaurateurs from around the country gathered in Houston for one of the biggest culinary celebrations to date

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DOL tries a colorful approach to curbing restaurants' child labor violations

Restaurant Business

As part of a settlement with the department, Wisconsin's Pizza Parlor will dress teen staff members in uniforms of different colors according to their age.

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Eatertainment’s New Wave

EATER

Eatertainment venues offering everything from pickle ball to mini golf to simulated racing are exploding across in the U.S., and in the Twin Cities, they’re having a hyper-local boom.

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A shaken restaurant industry gets cautiously optimistic

Restaurant Business

After a brutal few years, sales are showing early signs of improvement. The election is over. Interest rates are coming down. Banks may start lending again. That could signal a needed turnaround. And maybe this time it will hold.

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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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The Heart of Truffle Country

Sante

Since ancient times, this fine delicacy has been surrounded by mystery and exclusivity. Some say it was the result of Continue Reading The post The Heart of Truffle Country appeared first on Santé.Food.Wine.Spirits.

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The story behind L&L Hawaiian Barbecue

Restaurant Business

A Deeper Dive: Elisia Flores, CEO of the quick-service chain, joins the Restaurant Business podcast to discuss the company’s history and what it’s like taking over the family business.

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Greg Flynn is still confident in Applebee’s, and casual dining

Restaurant Business

The owner of Flynn Group, the world’s largest franchisee, said he would buy casual-dining restaurants despite a brutal market for the sector recently.

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6 thoughts on Wonder's acquisition of Grubhub

Restaurant Business

Tech Check: The fast-growing food hall-delivery chain has a deal to buy the floundering delivery app. Here’s what it could mean for both companies.

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How to Set Better OKRs and Drive Results

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.