June, 2020

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The Five Best Text Communication Practices for Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

With six times the engagement of email, text messaging is revolutionizing the marketing strategies of QSR, fast food, and dine-in restaurants. Text marketing offers unique and exciting approaches to generate peak engagement and ultimately drive more successful campaigns. Through analyzing metrics and data, best practices have been pushed to the marketing forefront.

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Just Cook From the Back of the Box 

EATER

The recipes on pantry food packages aren’t half bad. | Pipas Imagery /Shutterstock. Back-of-the-box recipes were once the stuff of family lore, and they can still be a source of inspiration now Not too long ago, I stood helpless in the doorway to my pantry, staring at my dwindling stores. What had once looked abundant now looked pathetic following two months of quarantine, and I felt inspirationally stunted.

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Health & Safety Guidelines For Reopening Your Bar or Restaurant

Sculpture Hospitality

As locations are reopening, restaurant owners are getting back into the swing of things and learning new procedures and protocols set in place by local governments. Here at Sculpture Hospitality, we have been working hard to share tips to help get your restaurant and staff ready for when guests arrive again. However, one thing we’ve only briefly touched on is the health and safety procedures you need internally, including the cleanliness of equipment, appliances and managing of stock.

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A Guide to Effective Instagram Marketing For Restaurants

Social Hospitality

Instagram has come a long way since its inception in 2010. The image-based social network now has a revenue of approximately $6.84 billion, which, in 2019, included $20 billion in ad revenue. . The restaurant and food industry is one of the many to take advantage of the marketing opportunities Instagram offers. Restaurants across the globe now use Instagram to advertise their wares and, many even create bespoke dishes which are designed specifically to be shown off on the platform.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Advice from a manager: how to ace a hospitality interview and trial

Typsy

If you're a hospitality professional, chances are high that your employment has been affected by the ongoing coronavirus. But businesses are now looking towards reopening, and with them job opportunities are becoming increasingly available. Your best chance at success is being prepared and knowing what to expect. Read on for advice from an experienced hospitality hiring manager on how to ace a hospitality interview and trial.

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What’s the Best Way to Advertise a Small Business?

Indoor Media

Every small business is unique. While we are a bit biased and believe our advertising is the first, best way to advertise for all small businesses, we also believe that every business owner should explore the best way to advertise for themselves. To help you evaluate your options, we’ve created this 6 step guide to walk you through the easy work of identifying which advertising methods are best and which are bust!

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WHY IS A PARTICULAR CHEF’S FOOD SO MUCH BETTER THAN ANOTHER’S?

Culinary Cues

Every chef has experienced it and as a result he or she will relate to the content of this article. There are times, possibly many times, when you question your own skill – whether in cooking or presenting food, or even with the operation of a kitchen. You have likely been on the receiving end of a plate of food that is just so damn good that it first gives you pause, then amazes you, makes you angry for a brief moment, and then finally makes you question whether or not you are really wort

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Post-COVID19 Restaurant Marketing Themes to Help Your Business Bounce Back

Modern Restaurant Management

As we begin to assess the realities of the Post-COVID19 (CV) world, businesses everywhere are facing an unprecedented challenge: how to survive and maybe even thrive amid this extraordinary "new normal." Restaurants and the entire hospitality industry are at the forefront of this challenge. Even as lockdown restrictions are eased, it's likely to be a long time before the dining experience returns to anything resembling the previous norm.

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Why Contactless will Future-Proof Restaurant Technology

Focus POS

If there is one thing common across almost every industry affected by the coronavirus pandemic, it is that of a ccelerated transformation at a relentless pace. It could be argued that the restaurant industry has been hit the hardest when it comes to stay-at-home orders and social distancing mandates; however, the resilience of the restaurant industry cannot be denied, and as restaurateurs shift their thinking from, “How am I going to survive?

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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4-Step Restaurant Survival Guide During This Pandemic

Next Restaurants

By Denise Langenegger , Contributor. No one could have predicted how massive the pandemic impacted the food and hospitality industry. Restaurants have been hit especially hard. Owners are faced with the challenge of keeping their business alive even amidst limited gatherings, quarantines, curfews, and the fear of infection. We’ve put together an easy-to-follow four step restaurant survival guide to keep your restaurant alive and running during this pandemic.

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7 Fun Adventurous Happy Tips for Brazil’s Wine Regions

A Wine Story

Bento Goncalves Brasil @ Urban Farmcy. Bento Goncalves Brazil. Bento Goncalves Brasil. How far would you travel to see some of Brazil’s most luxurious wine regions? Bento Goncalves Brazil. Bento Goncalves Brazil, often called the “Napa Valley” of South America, produces the finest wines in the country. Founded by Italian immigrants over a century ago, Bento Goncalves Brasil thrives as Brazil’s wine epicenter.

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The Omnichannel Restaurant: Recognizing the Importance of a Multi-Channel Strategy to Drive Sales

Deliverect

A few years ago, omnichannel was a concept that was applied almost exclusively to retail brands. Today, it is a successful operational model that is used by organizations across multiple industries, including the food and restaurant sector. But what exactly is an omnichannel restaurant and why should your restaurant aspire to be one?

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COOKS – GETTING BACK INTO THE ZONE

Culinary Cues

Take a deep breath as you walk through those back doors, back into the kitchen that was so familiar, back to a place that you have missed for the past three months. Somehow you are nervous – why is that? You’re not as nervous about the virus as you are being able to hit the ground running. This is a job that has always required you to be on your game, to be able to zig and zag, solve those little problems that crop up every day, finding your pace, organize your station, and respond with syncopat

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Top 5 Ways to Optimize Your Loyalty Strategy

Speaker: Lauren Barash, Vice President, Brand Marketing

In an ever-evolving industry, building and retaining loyal customers is critical to the success of any restaurant business. Join Lauren Barash, VP of Brand Marketing at Full Course, as she delves into the world of restaurant loyalty programs, and reveals the top five essential strategies to optimize your approach! This webinar will explore: Loyalty trends and what you should be focusing on 📊 Actionable insights and ideas to help you develop the most powerful and effective loyalty program

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COVID-19 Is an Opportunity to Differentiate Your Restaurant Brand

Modern Restaurant Management

Focusing on customer experience may seem like a luxury for restaurateurs struggling to keep their doors open, but it may prove to be the difference between those that survive and those that get added to the list of tragic COVID-19 business casualties. I have seen firsthand how this is playing out. As COVID-19 cases were waning and businesses began to reopen, I took a short beach vacation with my family.

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Smooth Roll Out of Restaurant365 at BLCO’s 29 KFC, Taco Bell and A&W Locations Kicks Off Efficiency Gains

Restaurant365

Background. With more than 30 years in the franchising business, C21 Group/BLCO Enterprises has grown into managing 29 KFC, Taco Bell and A&W franchise locations across Canada and parts of the U.S., employing more than 700 people. The company aims to serve its communities better by upgrading its current stores as well as building and acquiring new stores.

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4 Steps to Establish Your Auto Repair Shop’s Online Presence [Infographic]

Indoor Media

What does your auto repair shop’s online presence look like? Whether you’re a brand new business or you’ve been around for a while, a healthy dose of online content will help curious consumers find your auto shop the next time they need an oil change or part replaced. Building the foundation for your auto shop’s online presence is easier than it may seem.

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New Minimum Wages Rates in Effect July 1, 2020

Hot Schedules

BLOG. New Minimum Wages Rates in Effect July 1, 2020. In accordance with local labor laws, HotSchedules will reflect minimum wage rate changes so you remain compliant. . R ? egardless of COVID, many jurisdictions are moving forward with a grab bag of new compliance regulations, including Predictive Scheduling for Chicago and minimum wage updates in multiple jurisdictions.

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2024 Restaurant Spending Trends to Stay Ahead of the Curve

How do you stay on top of what your customers are expecting when they step through your doors? Do you know what’s on their mind? How are you going to account for what they’re planning on doing months from now? As we head into 2024, price-related issues are still top-of-mind for restaurant customers after the inflation boom earlier this year. In this new report, we give you the latest insights on consumer spending trends, attitudes on tipping, and how you can respond.

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Reopening Your Restaurant? Here’s Your Digital To-Do List

ChowNow

It’s clear that the COVID-19 pandemic has been devastating for restaurants. Industry sales fell by 26.7% compared to their prior year period between February and March, and by a jaw-dropping 48.6% in April. While we’re in stabler territory for the time being, things are still grim for the restaurant industry. Now, as a patchwork of laws and guidelines has allowed more and more restaurants to reopen their dining rooms, many questions remain.

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How to Meet The Needs of Today’s Coffee Shop Customer

Perfect Daily Grind

Vegan, earth-conscious, experience-seeking, Instagram-shunning, pour-over-drinking, pour-over-avoiding, quality-orientated, convenience-orientated: the consumer market is rapidly evolving and at times contradictory. Coffee shop owners who don’t adapt to their changing needs risk losing sales and customers. The market isn’t the only thing that’s changed.

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Outdoor Is the New Indoor

Modern Restaurant Management

January is well-known for being a reset month. A time to recover from back-to-back holiday parties and festive gatherings. A time to act on resolutions and look ahead with great anticipation to all that is possible in the new year. In the restaurant business, this also means a dip in sales, but restaurateurs are mostly undaunted. It’s the perfect slow-down to tweak recipes and menus, do some deep cleaning, or consider fresh ways to change up the customer dining experience.

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Guest Blog: PPP Loan Forgiveness for Restaurants

Restaurant365

On May 15, the Small Business Association (SBA) released its Loan Forgiveness Application for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The application outlines the computation for debt forgiveness. We have outlined answers to some frequently asked questions as it relates to the guidance currently in place: When does the 8 week forgiveness period begin?

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Win More in 2024: Your Guide to Restaurant Marketing Success

Your Guide to Restaurant Marketing Success Start maximizing ROI and doing more with less with Olo’s ultimate guide to restaurant marketing. In this guide: Strategies to level up in 4 key areas: data, audiences, content distribution, and loyalty Interactive checklists to help you track your progress throughout the year Tips for leveraging guest data across your entire business What you’ll learn: Level 1 | Beginner: Learn how to collect guest data, build a healthy subscriber list, launch personali

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How COVID-19 and Mobile POS are Contributing to the Restaurant Evolution

Focus POS

Over the past decade there has been a rise in popularity of mobile devices in consumers’ everyday lives. From mp3 players and mobile phones, to laptops and tablets there is no doubt these devices have led a technology evolution. . This is also true regarding the restaurant industry and the technological evolution that’s taken place over the past decade.

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Ohio Taco Chain Employees Walked Out When Asked to Fill Mass Order for Law Enforcement

EATER

A Condado Tacos location in Columbus, Ohio, is facing public scrutiny for filling an order for Bud Boxes placed by Ohio Highway Patrol. | Condado Tacos [Official photo]. A worker at the Condado Tacos in Polaris says they were uncomfortable filling the order at a time when there are nationwide protests against police brutality A Condado Tacos in Columbus, Ohio, came under scrutiny on Monday after social media posts alleged that the chain’s suburban Polaris location had filled a large food order f

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Why Communication is Key When Reopening Your Bar or Restaurant

Sculpture Hospitality

Across the world, governments are beginning to reopen different types of businesses in their communities. Obviously this stage looks different depending on where you are located - some regions in the states are already allowing restaurants to open where others are still shut down, for example.

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Operating Efficiency of Domino’s Pizza Tantamount to Google

Restaurant Engine

Domino’s Pizza (NYSE: DPZ) went public in 2004, and it has delivered a superior return to its shareholders, better even than Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL). “It’s pretty amazing,” said Joe Weisenthal. “The basic idea is that both Domino’s Pizza and Google went public around the same time. I think it was 2004. And if you look at the chart, they basically had a pretty similar trajectory.

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Unlock Restaurant Success: Mastering 7 Vital Employment Laws

As a restaurant leader, your plate is full with responsibilities, from staff management to serving up delicious dishes. But amidst the hustle, there's a crucial area you can't afford to overlook – employment laws. In this comprehensive eBook, we'll unveil the seven essential employment laws every restaurant leader must master. We'll break down the intricacies of each law, showing you how it directly impacts your business.

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Safety First: Welcoming Restaurant Employees Back

Modern Restaurant Management

Over the past few months, many restaurants made difficult decisions to reduce their workforce and apply a strict delivery and takeout format or pause operations entirely due to COVID-19. As the fight against COVID-19 continues, more of those same restaurants have started considering—and even implementing—new plans for welcoming employees and customers back for in-person dining.

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5 awesome induction activities to get your new team excited

Typsy

Induction sessions can be super useful for a new hospitality team - it's a fantastic way to meet new team mates and get familiar with your venue's work culture in a pressure-free environment. But they need to be well thought out so that everyone leaves feeling comfortable and excited to get started. The key is to make sure the day isn’t all about business and policies: it’s also about team building, engagement, and having fun.

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3 Delicious Secrets of Pairing Wine With Food

A Wine Story

Pairing Wine with Food at Stag’s Leap. Pairing Wine with Food at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars. When you fantasize about the Napa Valley, two things usually come to mind: Delicious food and wine. Pairing wine with food makes the Napa Valley such a popular tourism destination. Today virtually all the wineries offer visitors the ability to enjoy pairing wine with food experiences.

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