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Leading with Heart: Five Keys to Successful Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management

Operating a restaurant is more than managing a business; it’s about building a vibrant community and fostering a sense of family where every day brings fresh challenges and opportunities. As the Regional Director of Operations with one of Genghis Grill’s franchise groups in Arizona, I've learned that a successful restaurant thrives on a blend of passion, patience and people-centered leadership.

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The Next Generation of Indian Cheese Is Here

EATER

Sonny Ross India’s artisan cheesemakers are pushing boundaries, shaping palates, and celebrating the country’s traditional dairy practices Creamy, tart, and friggin’ delicious: The pineapple cheese sandwich at Manek Sandwich is a thing of beauty. Three slices of crustless white bread with butter, layered with pyramids of grated processed Amul cheese, pineapple jam, vanilla ice cream, and a ring of canned pineapple, and finished with a flourish of grated cheese for good measure, it’s gone in 60 s

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Most customers think restaurants are getting expensive

Restaurant Business

The Bottom Line: A pair of studies by Revenue Management Solutions provide a sobering look at the views of consumers on restaurant prices and their dining habits.

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The Stanley Tumbler Girlies Have Lost Their Minds

EATER

Lille Allen The accessorizing must stop Okay, I admit it — I understand the appeal of the 40-ounce Stanley Quencher. It is, objectively, a good cup that holds a ton of water and keeps it cold for hours. What I do not understand, though, is the consumerist compulsion to embellish these hulking drinking vessels with an increasingly deranged array of cup accessories.

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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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Meet the reclusive force behind casual-dining standouts Hillstone and Houston's

Restaurant Business

Restaurant Rewind: George Biel may not have the high profile of other casual-dining pioneers, but his operations remain gold standards within the business.

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Enhance Your Restaurant Marketing with Targeted Community Events

The Rail

By Indiana Lee, Contributor Restaurant marketing is inherently fast-paced, and standing out from the crowd is quintessential. Digital campaigns and social media play a key role in keeping up, but there is an oft-overlooked tactic that can significantly boost your restaurant’s visibility and revenue. Although they take some planning, community events are worth the extra effort.

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How to improve table turnover at any type of restaurant

Clover - Restaurants

Why the hold-up? Quite possibly, your restaurant table turnover rate isn’t high enough. In a full-service restaurant, satisfied diners may linger over conversation and coffee. Or, your customers are waiting to receive their checks, so they can pay and leave. In each case, the table will need cleaning and set-up before the next party of guests can sit down.

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[At FSTEC] Innovation Forum on Tech Priorities for 2025

Crunchtime

With 2025 just around the corner, operations teams are busy putting their technology strategies in place to support growth initiatives, lower costs, and improve productivity. At FSTEC, September 16-18, 2024, in Grapevine, Texas, Crunchtime is leading an Innovation Forum entitled "Hot Topics to Shape the 2025 Tech Agenda," where we'll discuss these topics and more with a distinguished panel of restaurant technology leaders.

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After Two Years, ‘Chef’s Table’ Is Making a Big Comeback

EATER

Chef’s Tabl e : Noodles will be a deep dive like the show’s previous seasons on pastry, barbecue, and pizza. | Netflix The first of three just-announced seasons will focus on noodles Netflix announced today via press release that Chef’s Table , the food documentary series created by David Gelb, is coming back for three more seasons, beginning this fall.

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The story behind the fast-growing sandwich chain Cheba Hut

Restaurant Business

A Deeper Dive: CEO Marc Torres joins the Restaurant Business podcast to talk about how the chain keeps customers after its pot-themed marketing gets them in the door.

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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 Does All Day Mean in a Kitchen? 64 Restaurant Terms You Need to Know

SpotOn

All day. Dead plate. Triple sat. Mise. You may have overheard these terms coming from the restaurant kitchens, both real and fictional. Popular movies and TV shows have started bringing kitchen slang into the mainstream. "Yes, chef" isn't just for the chef de partie anymore. Every industry has its own jargon, and the hospitality industry is no different.

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Want happy restaurant employees? How's a relocation to Sweden sound?

Restaurant Business

Reality Check: New research shows how far the U.S. industry still has to go in improving its image—and what a difference an upgrade could make when it comes to retention.

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Struggling Topgolf to be spun off

Restaurant Business

Topgolf Callaway Brands said it plans to separate into two companies just four years after it acquired the eatertainment chain.

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Consumers have mixed feelings about AI in restaurants

Restaurant Business

Not everyone is convinced the technology is necessary, and many give it little margin for error, according to a new survey.

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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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Arizona-based Wildflower acquired by Japan-based restaurant conglomerate for $28.2M

Restaurant Business

It's the second U.S. restaurant brand buy for Tokyo-based Create Restaurants Holdings, which also bought Il Fornaio in 2019.

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Value and cups appear to be helping McDonald's regain customers

Restaurant Business

Surveys and traffic data suggest that the Chicago-based fast-food chain has improved its results in recent weeks, thanks to a value meal and Collectors’ Cups.

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