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Driving Traffic to Your Online Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

Learn eight techniques to encourage more online ordering in this episode of the Making Dough Restaurant Show – by Hengam Stanfield. Among the suggestions are receipt promotions, website optimization, branded packaging, and more.

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Restaurants get dragged into The Misinformation Age

Restaurant Business

The Bottom Line: Big Mac prices, corporate views on Israel-Palestine and even store closures have been subject to misinformation and outright lies. Blame the presidential election.

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Buzztime Weekly Bar Trivia Challenge – Week 33

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 However, as the years pass, some of the questions become outdated and obscure.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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'Super Size Me' filmmaker Morgan Spurlock dies at age 53

Restaurant Business

The documentary recounted his 30-day regimen of eating nothing but McDonald's food. It became an anthem of sorts for critics who faulted fast-food chains for their contribution to America's obesity epidemic.

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New DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

There’s a new overtime salary threshold that will impact employers across the country. If you have an employee making less than $43,888 on July 1 or less than $58,656 on January 1, you’re going to have to start paying overtime. Download Paycor’s guide to learn: Which groups of employees are affected? How should you classify employees? Best ways to mitigate risk.

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Three Strategies to Increase Customer Retention

Modern Restaurant Management

How can you keep customers returning to your restaurant when so many choices exist? This is one of the most prominent questions that restaurant owners face today. With so many options, staying fresh and agile is important. This stresses the need for customer retention programs. Today, customers find restaurant brands through influencers, social media, review sites, and multiple channels.

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CIA names Google foodservice exec Michiel Bakker as president

Restaurant Business

Bakker will succeed Tim Ryan, who moves to the position of chancellor of the Culinary Institute of America.

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Screw It, Spoil Yourself at the Pool Snack Bar

EATER

Shutterstock Pool life is simple. Shouldn’t your pool snacks be too? When my husband and I were looking to join a community pool a few years ago, we only had a couple of requirements: a low-key and judgment-free vibe, members who were already friends, an adequate amount of adult swim time, and an old-school snack bar. You know the ones. More shacks than kitchens, these snack bars are keepsakes from my youth.

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This Comically Easy, Orange-Infused Cocktail Attends Every Dinner Party I Do

EATER

Photo illustration by Jesse Sparks; see below for credits Whether I’m playing host or guest, this two-ingredient, batch cocktail turns any occasion into a celebration — without the unnecessary prep or cleanup I love throwing dinner parties — but after cooking all that food, I’m not inclined to spend an absurd amount of time making complex cocktails.

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Do I Have to Invite My Best Friend’s Awful Partner to Dinner?

EATER

Illustration by Michael Hoeweler ; Collage by Lille Allen It’s time to keep calm and have a conversation Welcome to Rules of Consumption, a column where Eater staff writer Amy McCarthy answers any and all questions you have regarding dining etiquette. Have a conundrum? Email advice@eater.com for answers. Dear Amy, Every month, I host a group of friends for a potluck dinner party, something our group has been doing for several years now.

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New DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

There’s a new overtime salary threshold that will impact employers across the country. If you have an employee making less than $43,888 on July 1 or less than $58,656 on January 1, you’re going to have to start paying overtime. Download Paycor’s guide to learn: Which groups of employees are affected? How should you classify employees? Best ways to mitigate risk.

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10 Food-Filled Beach Reads for Your Summer Vacation

EATER

Photo illustration by Lille Allen Casey McQuiston’s newest romance, a polyamorous romp through the mixology world, a pastry-filled Parisian memoir, and more have us excited for summer reading We look forward to reading near a body of water all year, and this season’s food-themed releases don’t disappoint. Many of them are transportive, so whether you bring them on vacation or read them at home imagining a vacation, they’ll hopefully offer that needed bit of summer escapism.

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You Deserve to Have a Garfield Summer

EATER

Photo illustration by Lille Allen How to embody the spirit of the cartoon cat this season In what feels like a flash, the first half of the year is almost gone, and summer is rapidly approaching. With that comes a lot of things: warm temperatures, short sleeves, and this year, the arrival of The Garfield Movie , an animated celebration of the original grumpy cat.

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