The Rail

MAY 12, 2025

By Angela Marshall, Contributor Reopening a restaurant in a new location can be both exciting and overwhelming. Whether upgrading to a bigger space, aiming for a better neighborhood, or rebranding your culinary identity, the process requires more than just packing boxes and creating a new sign. Reopening in a new location is a major milestone that demands strategic planning, emotional investment, and a deep understanding of what makes restaurants thrive.

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Culinary Cues

MAY 12, 2025

For generations excellent meant complicated, intense, all-consuming, and sacrifice. Kitchens of great renown are staffed with dozens of talented young cooks, some even there as a stagiere working just to learn and build their resumes. Meticulously clean kitchens; pristine, starched chef whites; the very best equipment and ingredients from around the world.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MAY 12, 2025

The restaurant industry's competitive landscape for mealtime dollars is changing fast, and it's no longer brand against brand. Increasingly, grocery and convenience stores are stealing share by offering quick, affordable, and increasingly high-quality meal options. In Revenue Management Solutions' (RMS) recent consumer report, Check, Please or Check Out , 24 percent of surveyed diners say they buy meals from grocery stores more frequently than a year ago.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 12, 2025

With same-store sales weak so far this year amid a difficult economy, operators are boosting marketing, adding new menu items and turning back to what worked. Theyre also discounting more.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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.

Crunchtime

MAY 12, 2025

When you're running over 180 dining locations across theme parks, dinner shows, and aquariumseach with their own unique menus, vendors, and seasonal demandskeeping tabs on inventory and food costs can feel like a roller coaster ride. That was the reality for Herschend Family Entertainment, the worlds largest family-owned themed attraction company and home to Dollywood, until they teamed up with Crunchtime.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 12, 2025

The fast-food giant and its franchisees vow to hire 375,000 people this summer, which would be the most in years. It also plans to open 900 U.S. restaurants by 2027.

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SpotOn

MAY 12, 2025

San Francisco, CA – May 12, 2025 — Following the announcement of its Knowledge + Community = Profit campaign, SpotOn is unveiling its significant AI advancements, reinforcing its commitment to building intelligent, integrated solutions that improve margins, save time, and simplify decision-making. SpotOn’s AI vision is guided by empathy and real-world practicality.

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Squirrel Systems

MAY 12, 2025

In todays hospitality landscape, restaurant and resort operators face a unique challenge: balancing centralized control with the need for location-level flexibility. Thats where Squirrel Cloud Enterprise steps ina modern, cloud-based POS platform purpose-built for multi-location brands. Why Squirrel Cloud Enterprise? Squirrel Cloud Enterprise is designed from the ground up for restaurants and resorts that demand reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

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EATER

MAY 12, 2025

Punch's Best New Bartenders of 2025 will be announced in July. Here are the finalists, a group driving cocktail culture forward.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 12, 2025

Tech Check: Sales rumors, acquisitions and a nine-digit fundraise dominated the headlines, allowing some other developments to fly under the radar.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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.

EATER

MAY 12, 2025

Eater Video Culinary director Nick Ocando zooms through this sunny Florida town on his golf cart, juggling three different kitchens I feel like St. Petersburg wasnt really paid attention to much in the past. A lot of the restaurants didnt really have to try too hard to be busy because of the location, explains chef Nick Ocando, the culinary director of three distinct restaurants in the tourist destination.

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Restaurant Business

MAY 12, 2025

Mix-ins that customers love add excitement to ice cream, milkshakes and more

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EATER

MAY 12, 2025

Philly Michelin Guide has launched for the first time: Get ready for the citys first season of stars and Bib Gourmands

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QSR Automations

MAY 12, 2025

Orders are flying in from the counter, mobile apps, and third-party delivery services. Guests want their food fast, but they also expect it to be flawless. In the fast-paced world of fast-casual dining, success hinges on delivering meals quickly, without compromising quality. But in the hustle to meet growing demand, many kitchens find themselves choosing between speed and accuracy a dangerous tradeoff in an industry where customer satisfaction is everything.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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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Squirrel Systems

MAY 12, 2025

In todays hospitality landscape, restaurant operators face a unique challenge: balancing the capability of their POS and centralized control with the need for location-level flexibility. Thats where Squirrel Cloud Enterprise steps ina modern, cloud-based POS platform purpose-built for multi-location brands. Why Squirrel Cloud Enterprise? Squirrel Cloud Enterprise is designed from the ground up for restaurants and resorts that demand reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

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The Salt

MAY 12, 2025

When it comes to rice and pasta, dieticians recommend eating brown or whole grain because they're more nutritious. But you can create a super nutrient in white rice and white pasta.

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Restaurant Den

MAY 12, 2025

Boost your restaurants traffic and sales with these 10 powerful promotion ideas. Attract new guests, fill seats, and keep customers returning for more. The post Get More Customers With These Promotion Ideas for Restaurants first appeared on Restaurant Den. The post Get More Customers With These Promotion Ideas for Restaurants appeared first on Restaurant Den.

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The Salt

MAY 12, 2025

Giuliano Hazan talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about his mother, Marcella, who brought Italian cooking to Americans.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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.

Leadership

Restaurant Business

MAY 12, 2025

Working Lunch: In this week's political podcast, a new organization is taking shape with enhanced access to the Trump Administration. Will it jive with traditional business groups?

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The Salt

MAY 12, 2025

The Trump administration hopes to eliminate potentially harmful synthetic dyes used to give foods, drinks and medicines vivid color. Manufacturers say it's not that simple to make the change.

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