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A Better Approach for Unbanked Restaurant Employees

Modern Restaurant Management

More than 75 percent of Americans say that increasing financial stress is impacting their productivity at work. Financial insecurity has hit all-time highs in many segments of the workforce, including the restaurant and quick service restaurant (QSR) industries, whose workers tend to be more underserved with less access to affordable banking services.

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The Casa Bonita Reopening Is Real but It Might as Well Be a Joke

EATER

Casa Bonita. | Hyoung Chang/Getty The “South Park” creators have dumped $40 million into the beloved Colorado restaurant, which is now selectively open, but to what end is still unclear You wanna come on down to where, exactly? If the answer is “unincorporated Park County, Colorado,” an hour or two outside of Denver, great news: Two guys from around there have been making a TV show about it for 26 years and counting.

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Bloomin' promotes Sheilina Henry to president of Fleming's

Restaurant Business

The industry veteran and operations specialist has spent more than a decade at Bloomin’, most recently as group vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion and off-premise dining.

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How I Got My Job: Editing — And Now, Owning — Legendary Food Publication Saveur

EATER

Photo by Thom Payne Kat Craddock’s journey through restaurant jobs and food media took an unexpected turn when she purchased the magazine she worked for earlier this year In How I Got My Job , folks from across the food and restaurant industry answer Eater’s questions about, well, how they got their job. Today’s installment: Kat Craddock. On April 10, 2023, Kat Craddock announced that she had purchased Saveur , the celebrated food publication she’d been reading since its inception in 1994 and wo

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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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PFG buys Orion Food Systems, strengthening its foodservice presence in c-stores

Restaurant Business

Orion provides branded prepared foods, including breakfast items and pizza, to about 1,500 c-stores.

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The complete guide to food & beverage cost control in restaurants

Tableo

Struggling to optimise your restaurant’s operations while keeping costs under control? In this guide we will delve into food & beverage (F&B) control methods to help you generate profitability and uphold good standards. So let’s dive in! 1. Understanding F&B control Inventory management, cost control, menu engineering and portion control are just a few of the components of restaurant management that go under the umbrella of F&B control.

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The Cheap, Gluggable Liter of Grüner Got Weird

EATER

The 4 best grüner veltliner natural wines to try right now. These affordable liter bottles are a new generation of the Austrian party wine.

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Chicken chains compete to offer the best deal on National Chicken Wing Day

Restaurant Business

Marketing Bites: Restaurant chains are also celebrating National Drive-Thru Day, Tim Hortons launches a credit card, and Rock N Roll Sushi hosts a birthday party.

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Send individual messages to multiple employees at once

Sling

Start a group conversation, enable the setting to send a message to each member individually, share what you need, and wait for responses in separate private threads. It’s a BCC of sorts, right in Sling! Learn more > The post Send individual messages to multiple employees at once appeared first on Sling.

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Taco Bell launches a Grilled Cheese Dipping Taco inspired by birria

Restaurant Business

The addition to the chain’s growing grilled cheese platform debuts Aug. 3, boasting double the cheese, a new protein and two dips.

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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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French's is partnering with Skittles to make limited-edition mustard-flavored candies

The Salt

For National Mustard Day next month, French's is partnering with Skittles to make their first-ever mustard-flavored candy. It will only be available in three cities and in an online sweepstakes.

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McDonald's, eager to open more restaurants, plans a new concept called CosMc

Restaurant Business

The burger giant plans to open the new, smaller-format concept in select markets as it looked for alternative strategies to bolster its growth.

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The Keys to Restaurant Longevity with Lula Cafe’s Jason Hammel

7 Shifts

Jason Hammel opened Lula Cafe in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood back in 1999. More than 20 years later, the award-winning farm-to-table institution is one of the city's most celebrated restaurants. For an industry with a high rate of first-year closures, Lula Cafe's longevity is a testament to what Hammel calls a youthful mindset. He joined us on the Pre-Shift Podcast to chat about the keys to Lula Cafe's longevity, how they changed after the pandemic, and how the industry has changed since

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McDonald's sales soar, thanks to Grimace

Restaurant Business

The burger giant’s same-store sales rose 10.3% in the second quarter as digital and marketing continued to drive demand.

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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 Vegetarian Epicure’ Extolled the Joy of Vegetables

EATER

Lille Allen/Eater Anna Thomas’s 1972 cookbook taught us that vegetables should taste like themselves, and that vegetables are delicious Back in the early 1970s, I’ve been told, American vegetables came in two varieties: the canned and frozen stuff that were found at the supermarket and boiled into oblivion, and the lentils, brown rice, and tofu from the health food store that were molded into solid and tasteless imitations of other foods.

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How Eric Gabrynowicz gave Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen & Bar a menu refresh while staying true to its roots

Restaurant Business

The VP of culinary, a transplanted New Yorker, executes a menu lineup that works as well in the Midwest as it does in the South.

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169 – 7 most common Restaurant Marketing mistakes

Marketing4Restaurants

A lot of businesses thrive or die depending on the amount of marketing done. Here are some common mistakes we’ve observed that hinder most businesses: Zero marketing One of the most basic mistakes is simply not doing any marketing at all. Some believe that the product would be enough to carry the name around but that is still lost potential customers.

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N.J. adds to the uncertainty about where pork prices will land

Restaurant Business

The state has followed California and Massachusetts in setting new hog-raising standards, a move likely to put a crimp into pork supplies.

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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.