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How QSR Technology Helps Communities Rebound After Hurricanes

Modern Restaurant Management

There's something deeply reassuring about seeing the lights come back on at your local McDonald's after a hurricane tears through your community. We saw this play out just weeks ago when Hurricane Milton swept through Florida in early October 2024, following closely on the heels of September's Hurricane Helene. In these moments, quick-service restaurants become more than just places to grab a quick meal – they transform into familiar landmarks, instilling hope and reassurance d

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Why Are People So Freaked Out About Seed Oils?

EATER

Lille Allen Signs posted in New York City accused Carbone of including seed oils in its spicy rigatoni. But why is that even a problem? The flyers started popping up like dandelions around Manhattan. “CARBONE PUTS SEED OILS IN THEIR SPICY RIGATONI,” they screamed in expectant outrage. “Your favorite restaurant serves you garbage,” they continued, explaining that seed oils cause bowel disease.

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6 Holiday Ideas For Restaurants

SpotOn

The holiday season is just one blink of an eye away. For the restaurant industry, it can be challenging to manage. On one hand, it can mean more guests and more profits. On the other hand, it can also mean additional complications like cold weather shutting down your outdoor spaces, employees going on vacation, grumpy guests, and unpredictable foot traffic.

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Cracker Barrel shareholders hand Sardar Biglari another defeat

Restaurant Business

The dissident investor failed to get himself and an ally onto the family-dining chain's board, giving management's strategic plan a bright green light.

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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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Is Your Restaurant Brand Ready to Use AI? 10 Things to Consider

Crunchtime

Before you take the leap into AI, consider these important factors for success. With the emergence of new technologies like AI Forecasting , many restaurant brands are exploring how they can embrace AI-powered tools in their daily operations. From streamlining tasks to enhancing the guest experience, AI offers exciting possibilities for operators looking to stay ahead.

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Surprising Way to Eliminate Food Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

CNBC Make It profiles Too Good To Go, an app designed to help combat food waste by connecting users to restaurants selling bags of leftover food at the end of the day. In 2023, the company brought in about $162 million in revenue.

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Chicago's restaurants push back on a proposal to hike drink taxes by more than 30%

Restaurant Business

Mayor Brandon Johnson says the higher levies will generate $10 million in additional sales taxes. Restaurateurs and liquor distributors say the increase will be devastating to the trade.

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A Banana Sold for $6.2 Million at Auction in New York This Week

EATER

It’s the one that was taped to the wall from the 2019 Art Basel

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83 tons of ground beef is yanked from the restaurant supply chain because of E. coli

Restaurant Business

The meat was processed by Detroit-based Wolverine Packing. To date, 15 people have been sickened by the contamination, all of them in Michigan.

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What’s the Best Chicken Soup Recipe on the Internet?

EATER

Lille Allen/Eater; see below for full photo credits With cold season fast approaching, it’s time to find out which chicken soup will soothe your soul I just got all my vaccines for the season, but I’m still steeling myself for the rogue cold or two. Enter chicken soup, as soothing for a stuffy nose as it is for the cold, dark days we’ve got ahead of us.

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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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Discounts are reshaping the third-party delivery business

Restaurant Business

Freebies have become a big business for apps like DoorDash and Uber Eats. Their impact for restaurants is more complicated.

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Meet the Team at Old Town Pour House in Naperville

Bottleneck Management

Meet the Team in Naperville At Bottleneck, we’re all about making someone’s day better. From the laughter shared with regulars to spontaneous sing-alongs, our team members are the heart of our restaurants. Let’s go behind the scenes with Kimberly Gill, our outgoing server, occasional host, and Red Shirt. Meet Kimberly Gill: Where are you from?

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A loyalty program does some heavy lifting for this Baltimore restaurant group

Restaurant Business

Atlas Restaurant Group's rewards app has helped boost frequency and spend across its 53 venues, which range from laid-back delis to high-end fish houses.

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If past is prologue, what's next for Jersey Mike's?

Restaurant Business

Restaurant Rewind: The chain’s history is largely the story of founder and owner Peter Cancro doing what he believed was right for the brand, convention be damned. Now a majority stake will be held by a private-equity firm, a breed hardly known for being hands-off. Will Jersey Mike’s prove an exception?

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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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Freddy's reportedly considers a sale as franchise M&A heats up

Restaurant Business

The fast-casual burger chain is apparently considering a sale process that could value the brand at $1 billion, as private-equity groups snap up franchise businesses.

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Life after divorce for the parent of Maple & Ash

Restaurant Business

The owners of the top-grossing Chicago steakhouse are rebranding under Maple Hospitality Group and plan to unleash aggressive growth in 2025.

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What will Starbucks do in China? The company is still thinking

Restaurant Business

The coffee shop chain said that it is still exploring strategic partnerships in the country following a report that it is considering the sale of a stake. But CEO Brian Niccol is focused on the U.S. right now.

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At Jack in the Box, sales improvement with some California headwinds

Restaurant Business

California’s $20 fast-food wage is costing company restaurants $15 million, and franchisees a lot more. That’s putting a damper on some recent sales improvement.

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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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Flynn Group buys more Wendy's restaurants

Restaurant Business

The San Francisco-based franchisee has acquired 32 locations in Indianapolis and has purchased more than 100 restaurants in the fast-food burger brand.

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