Fri.May 23, 2025

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3 Subtle Missteps that Sabotage Your Restaurant’s Inventory Accuracy

Crunchtime

Are these 3 issues undermining your restaurant's inventory accuracy? From deliveries and data entry to transfers and reporting, inventory management in restaurants is full of moving parts. Its no surprise that even small missteps can quietly create big problems. Worse, these errors often go unnoticed until the numbers dont add up, food costs spike, or reporting becomes unreliable.

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Protecting Your Patrons and Profits: The Importance of MFA in Restaurant Operations

Modern Restaurant Management

Cyberattacks aren't limited to corporate offices. Restaurants are increasingly targeted for data breaches, with significant financial and reputational consequences. Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is a vital step in bolstering your restaurant's cybersecurity posture, ensuring only authorized personnel access sensitive data and critical infrastructure.

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McDonald's plans to close its CosMc's locations

Restaurant Business

The fast-food giant will instead introduce beverages from the test concept into hundreds of McDonalds restaurants as a test this year. The CosMcs restaurants will start closing in late June.

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What Restaurateurs Need to Know about Third-Party Cybersecurity Risks

Modern Restaurant Management

Per the National Restaurant Association , 46 percent of restaurateurs reported a net increase in customer traffic from January 2024 to January 2025. Also rising? Cybersecurity threats in the restaurant industry. How Cybercriminals Exploit Third-Party Vendors to Attack Restaurants As online ordering continues to triumph and restaurants become more digital, opportunities for cybercriminals increase.

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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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Restaurant Menu Engineering Techniques to Maximize Profit

ChowNow

You can have a crowd-pleasing menu, loyal regulars, and a packed dining roomand still watch your margins disappear. Why? Because not every dish thats popular is profitable. Too many restaurant menus are built on intuition and aesthetics, not real numbers. If youre making decisions based on gut instinct or what feels right, youre guaranteed to be leaving money on the table.

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What restaurant operators might like about the Big, Beautiful Tax Bill so far

Restaurant Business

Working Lunch: In this week's political podcast, Aaron Frazier of the National Restaurant Association breaks down how the tax and spending bill approved by the House could impact the industry.

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Week in Review: Restaurant Show wraps up, Krispy Kreme angst, Wingstop's new tech and more

Restaurant Business

A look back at the weeks biggest news in the restaurant industry from Restaurant Business.

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How to Open a Deli in 2025: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide for Success

Lavu

Thinking about launching your own deli in 2025? Youre not alone. With the growing demand for fresh, made-to-order meals and local favorites, starting a deli can be a smart and rewarding business move. But success depends on more than just great sandwiches. If youre wondering how to open a deli that stands out in a competitive food market, this guide walks you through every critical step from business planning and licensing to choosing the right equipment and location.

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The RATIONAL iVario consolidates an entire kitchen into one tilt skillet

Restaurant Business

There are ways to make kitchen easier and help reduce the natural chaos of service.

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5 Signs Your POS System Is Slowing Down Your Restaurant

Lavu

Is your staff constantly battling long wait times, confused orders, or slow transactions? It might not be the teamit could be your tech. If your POS system is slowing down your restaurant , you’re not just dealing with minor annoyances; you’re risking lost revenue, poor customer experiences, and operational chaos. In today’s fast-paced dining environment, even a few seconds of lag can create a ripple effect that impacts your entire service flow.

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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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What Are FIFO Benefits for Optimized Restaurant Inventory?

Sculpture Hospitality

Running a restaurant means juggling a lot of tasks, and inventory may not feel like the most exciting one. However, implementing the FIFO (First-In, First-Out) inventory method can transform your stockroom into a well-oiled machine. Basically, FIFO means using your oldest food and beverage stock first, and placing new deliveries behind existing products to ensure proper rotation, especially for perishable items.

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How podcasting took over the restaurant industry

Restaurant Business

Podcasting has evolved from a side project for tech geeks into a sprawling content ecosystem thats changing how the industry connects and learns.

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Paris’ Most Exciting New Bar Runs Entirely Without Ice

EATER

Paris most exciting new cocktail bar, De Vie, runs entirely without ice. Heres how they make drinks, prioritize sustainability and more.

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A black market develops for restaurant reservations

Restaurant Business

The Week in Restaurants: This episode of the weekly restaurant news discussion podcast looks at the recently concluded National Restaurant Show and a dispute at Hardees.

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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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Tom Cruise Went to Pecan Lodge and All We Got Was a Confounding Instagram Post

EATER

Did Tom Cruise dirty those hands on barbecue bark?

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Summer Kitchen Essentials: AirHood® Products to Keep Your Cooking Clean and Fresh

Sante

With Memorial Day here, the fun of summer is officially in full swing! We got our hands on some cool Continue Reading The post Summer Kitchen Essentials: AirHood Products to Keep Your Cooking Clean and Fresh appeared first on Sant.Food.Wine.Spirits.

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The Coolest Underground Dinner Party Series in Dallas Is in a Ceramics Showroom

EATER

Marcello Andres makes dishes for some of the top restaurants in the world and it throws a good party, if you know how to get an invite

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Chili’s, Smoothie King, Taco John’s and more make executive moves

Restaurant Business

Executive Summary: The latest leadership changes in the restaurant industry.

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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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Flame & Flavor: Exploring Alternative Grilling Options with Award-Winning Wine Pairings

Sante

Summer grilling isn’t just for steaks and sausages anymore. As plant-based lifestyles grow in popularity and curiosity about global cuisines Continue Reading The post Flame & Flavor: Exploring Alternative Grilling Options with Award-Winning Wine Pairings appeared first on Sant.Food.Wine.Spirits.

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Buzztime Weekly Bar Trivia Challenge – Week 85

Buzztime Business

Are you hungry for more trivia? Is one night of bar trivia per week not enough to satiate your senses? Buzztime has tens of thousands of questions in its database. Pub trivia hosts and players could spend a lifetime with them! However, as the years pass, some of the questions become outdated and obscure. Events that are important one year become irrelevant many years later.

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How Rising Costs and Changing Tastes are Reshaping the Craft Beer Industry

The Rail

By Ellie Gabel, Contributor The past decade has been a roller coaster for the craft beer industry. After an explosion in popularity in the 2010s, the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to spell the end. However, breweries largely weathered the storm. Now, rising costs and a shifting consumer market threaten small-batch beer once again, but that doesnt mean the end is nigh.

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No taxes on tips or overtime is key provision in massive tax and spending bill

Restaurant Business

Trump's "One, Big, Beautiful Bill" is hailed by the National Restaurant Association as a win for operators. But the bill could face changes as it moves to the Senate.

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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.