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Inflation won't win Thanksgiving: Here's NPR's plan to help you save on a meal

The Salt

Turkey, stuffing, pie — it's all way more expensive this year. But you don't have to let inflation spoil your meal, if you're willing to get creative.

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Five Common Seasonal Hiring Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Modern Restaurant Management

The inevitable cycle of seasonal-driven activity fluctuations occurs each year, but it can still catch the restaurant industry off guard if they’re not prepared. As these chaotic holiday months approach, restaurants may find themselves needing to stock both their kitchen and their staff, but neither is as easy as it sounds. This is especially true as restaurants prepare for another uncertain holiday season.

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THE SOUL OF A RESTAURANT

Culinary Cues

I may be in the minority, but I have always felt, and often promoted, that restaurants can and occasionally do serve a higher purpose. Since those early days as an apprentice and maybe even before as a 16-year-old dishwasher, I saw something special in restaurant life. Yes, life – since those who find that higher purpose will likely invest a significant amount of time in a restaurant kitchen, not because they must, but rather because they want to.

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How Create a Virtual Tour of Your Restaurant

The Rail

By Jennesa Ongkit, Contributor If you run a bar or restaurant, you already know how prevalent the Internet is for hungry diners looking for a new place to eat. Consequently, if the Internet doesn't have much information about your restaurant, you can lose potential guests. The great news is that there are ways for you to get yourself listed on the Internet.

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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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Reduce costs and labor with automated tip distribution

Restaurant Business

As labor costs soar and the labor shortage persists, it has never been more critical for operators to ensure their employees are being paid correctly and that morale is high. Inaccuracies in wage distribution, particularly in regards to tips, can not only cause legal issues for restaurants, but they can also alienate workers if they aren’t being paid properly—which can exacerbate labor woes even further.

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The Best Holiday Cocktails, According to Eater Editors

EATER

Shutterstock. Don’t let cocktails fall by the wayside in the flurry of holiday dinner prep In the endless iterating that goes into devising a menu for a holiday dinner, it’s stupidly easy to forget the drinks. There will always be wine and beer, sure, and the cooler is stocked with canned seltzer, but digesting too much information about the best appetizers and flakiest pie recipes means cocktails can fall by the wayside.

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5 Steps to Improve Your Restaurant Pricing Strategy

Sculpture Hospitality

One of the quickest ways to improve your bottom line is to implement a proper pricing strategy at your restaurant. Being too aggressive with your pricing can stop customers from visiting your restaurant. Yet if the pricing is too weak, you may get more visits, but you will also miss out on profits.

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How restaurants can support mental health during the holidays

Open for Business

For some people, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. But for hospitality workers, the season is more of a grind than a party. Restaurant work can mean long hours and high stress at all times of year. During the holidays, the pressure increases. “The holidays can be a big trigger,” says Maria Campbell, chef and founder of the mental health advocacy group Cooks Who Care.

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Building Up Your Staff for Hiring Season

Gecko Hospitality

Building Up Your Staff for Hiring Season: Strategies for Successful Finding, Interviewing, and Onboarding Candidates. Hiring for hospitality businesses is always a challenge. With the onset of the pandemic, the mass exodus of hospitality workers, and inflation, finding qualified candidates can be difficult. Now, ramping up for the hiring season just added another dimension.

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Model Ireland Baldwin and Musician RAC Will Open a Cafe and Wine Bar on the Oregon Coast

EATER

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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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Highclere Castle Barrel Aged Gin

Sante

Celebrating 100 years since discovering King Tut.

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Inside the Fanatical, International, Extremely Online World of Monster Energy Trading

EATER

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Is there space for new coffee competitions?

Perfect Daily Grind

In specialty coffee, there are a range of competitions designed to test the skills and knowledge of different coffee professionals. Among these, the World Coffee Championships (WCC) are widely recognised as the most respected and highly regarded events in the coffee sector – notably the World Barista Championships (WBC). Undoubtedly, there are many reasons to celebrate WCC events, including the innovative and unique trends that can emerge from competitors’ performances.

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Gifts for the Person Who Knows Food Is Always in Style

EATER

Your most stylish friend could certainly use a mushroom shirt or burrata hat. | Eater. The coolest restaurant merch and food fashion to give this year Whether they’re a devoted regular of a local dive, or they simply enjoy showing their general enthusiasm for foods like shrimp and dumplings, some people just can’t stop wearing their love for food on their sleeves.

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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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Christmas 2022: Is the ‘Golden Quarter’ at risk of losing its shine?

Hot Schedules

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A Thanksgiving Congee Recipe That Will Give Delicious New Life to Your Leftovers

EATER

Dina Ávila/Eater. Calvin Eng’s congee utilizes every bit of holiday leftovers, from the turkey carcass to cranberry sauce Congee, or jook, is my comfort food. It’s simple, warm and cozy, and absolutely delicious. This version is also incredibly nostalgic for me, since it became a tradition in my family to make it with the turkey carcass the morning after Thanksgiving.

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One in nine hospitality jobs still vacant as staffing crisis continues

Hot Schedules

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I Freaking Love the Apple Database

EATER

Lille Allen/Eater. Welcome to Orange Pippin, a fruit enthusiast’s fantasia Maybe it has to do with the increasingly chaotic nature of the world, or maybe I’m more of a method-oriented person than I thought, but I’ve come to realize that I love a good database. I still use the Food Timeline with regularity, tirelessly scroll through the @depthsofwikipedia Instagram account , and recently, when my friend sent me a link to the apple and stonefruit cataloging database Orange Pippin , I set aside a g

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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.