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7 Ways to prepare your restaurant for a successful summer

Open for Business

Spring brings warmer weather, extended daylight, and the craving for cold beverages. This is the perfect time to get your restaurant summer-ready. From transforming your space into an outdoor retreat to making the most of occasions like Father’s Day and Pride Month, there are several ways to elevate your dining experience, attract new guests, and boost your bottom line this season.

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Combi Ovens Versus Conventional Cooking: What Are The Benefits For Operators?

Restaurant Business

Saving on labor, food and overhead costs has always been a priority for restaurant operators, but in recent years—with tighter competition and other challenges—it’s never been more important. When considering ways to trim costs, one area operators may not immediately gravitate toward is upgrading equipment. Existing equipment, such as ovens and stoves, work alright for many businesses.

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How Two Leading Burger Chains Empower Field Users to Drive Change

Crunchtime

With billions of burgers served worldwide each year, brands are always looking for ways to stand out from the crowd and keep customers coming back for more. It starts with equipping your teams to deliver great experiences consistently and empowering them with the right processes and standards to do so. When implementing an operations execution tool, or when making any kind of change to a process, it is crucial to empower field users to drive that change.

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At age 59, San Francisco's Scoma's restaurant still defers to its elders

Restaurant Business

Restaurant Rewind: The Fisherman's Wharf landmark has adhered to the traditions set by founder Al Scoma without ignoring what today's customers want.

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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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Optimizing the Supply Chain: 3 Methods for Maximum Restaurant Efficiency

The Rail

By Briana Hilton, Contributor “Right now is the hardest it has ever been in 25 years of running restaurants,” said Bryan Solar, chief product officer at SpotOn. While the industry has been clouded by a variety of pressures that defined 2023 (such as inflation and price sensitivity), Restaurant Dive predicts that such challenges may push restaurants to embrace new solutions this year.

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Sweetgreen inches closer to profitability

Restaurant Business

Despite flat traffic for the first quarter, the fast-casual salad chain raised guidance for the year, citing continuing momentum.

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McDonald's is making a massive investment in digital marketing

Restaurant Business

The fast-food giant is shifting spending to digital marketing and plans to invest “hundreds of millions” into digital innovation, including new ordering channels, personalization and loyalty.

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You Can Now Actually Refill Your Graza Bottle With Graza

EATER

Now you can fill up an empty Graza bottle with more Graza. | Graza The brand just launched refill cans of its TikTok-famous olive oil I have a confession: When that neon green nib of Graza pops into one of my cooking videos , despite my attempts to not get it in frame, it’s not always Graza coming out. More likely, it’s another brand of olive oil, which I’ve bought in bulk and then poured into the Graza bottle.

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Are consumers ordering less delivery? It depends on who you ask

Restaurant Business

Tech Check: There are signs that demand is slowing. But some are finding the convenience too good to quit.

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Picking the Right Meat Supplier

Modern Restaurant Management

Choosing the right meat supplier is crucial for restaurants aiming to offer top-notch meals that leave a lasting impression on their patrons. The quality of meat can dramatically affect the taste and overall experience of a dish. Here are several key tips for selecting a meat vendor that meets high-quality standards, ensuring that the meat you serve is of the best quality possible.

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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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Red Lobster sale expected this year, owner says

Restaurant Business

Thai Union Group is “actively engaged” in negotiations with potential buyers for the struggling seafood chain.

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Vacuum Packing Solutions for Restaurants

Chef's Resources

May 9, 2024 Preserving Freshness and Efficiency: The Role of Vacuum Packing Solutions for Restaurants In the fast-paced world of restaurants, maintaining freshness while maximizing efficiency is essential. Vacuum packing solutions have emerged as indispensable tools for achieving these goals, revolutionizing food storage, preparation, and presentation in restaurant kitchens.

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Increased marketing spending did not help Papa Johns' sales in April

Restaurant Business

A softer consumer environment is more than offsetting the pizza chain’s boost in marketing in recent weeks. But profitability improved last quarter.

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How to Effectively Implement Retail Dynamic Pricing

Revel Systems

Pricing products to maximize profits in retail has never been easy. Too low and you lose out on profit. Too high and you deter consumers, hurting brand image and sales.

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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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The Taiwanese wheel cake may just become the next cronut

Restaurant Business

Behind the Menu: Money Cake opens in New York, tempting pastry fans with the waffle-cream puff hybrid.

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