August, 2019

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Restaurant Revenue Management: 3 Killer Strategies to Boost Sales

7 Shifts

Grow your restaurant's revenue with these three powerful restaurant revenue management strategies. Maybe you're here because your restaurant isn't making enough revenue and you need a solution to avoid having to close your doors. Or, perhaps your restaurant's thriving, and you're searching for a few strategies to help boost sales. Regardless of your reasons for being here, the solution to your problem remains the same: Better restaurant revenue management.

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CHEFS ARE ALL IN AND ALL OUT

Culinary Cues

Working very hard is not unique to foodservice – there are many careers that require extra-human effort, but very few that absolutely require individuals to be “all in”. By “all in” I am referring to total commitment, building your life around the demands of the job, and most significantly to do so while being oblivious to the impact that this commitment has on other aspect of one’s life.

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The Formula For a Badass Brand!

Embrace the Suck

I recently gave an interview for Foodable TV about how to build a brand. You can create a brand that competes or one that dominates the market. The choice is yours. Follow this formula if you want to make your brand stand out in the market! Here are the questions and my answers from that interview: Q: Can you explain the difference between competing and dominating the market?

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6 Ways Chatbots Can Help Restaurant Businesses

Social Hospitality

When it comes to digital marketing for restaurants , there are various avenues to explore. One of those avenues is Chatbots. Restaurant Chatbots can converse with customers without the need for human labor. C ustomer interaction points can range from mobile apps, third-party food aggregator apps, social media, and chat apps. Why Do Chatbots Play a Role for Restaurant Businesses?

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Planning Your Restaurants Path to Profitability

Speaker: James Kahler, COO of Full Course

Ever wondered where to splurge and where to safely conserve when it comes to operating and growing your restaurant? 🤔 Join James Kahler, COO of Full Course and industry visionary, in this new webinar where he'll talk all about best practices to invest in your restaurant's success! Whether you're a new business or an established restaurant, a seasoned pro or a rookie, you'll learn the keys to sustainable success in this competitive industry.

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How to Make Your Coffee Shop More Accessible

Perfect Daily Grind

What do you think about when you enter a coffee shop? Do you have to consider whether you can easily move around the space? Perhaps you’re entering as a potential employee with your CV in hand. Do you have to consider whether you’ll be discriminated against because of an impairment? For many people, these questions wouldn’t occur. But for people with disabilities and impairments, they are a part of everyday life.

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Menu Engineering: The Science of Optimizing Your Menu to Maximize Profit

7 Shifts

Menu engineering: while the name might suggest you need to go to college at MIT to be good at it, is actually a common and essential task that all restaurateurs should regularly undertake. Menu engineering can be simplified as the steps taken to increase the profitability of a restaurant menu. Typically, the practice is broken down into two segments: 1.

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So Much Rum. So Little Time.

Sante

Rum Group.jpg. Author(s): Jeffrey Spear. Teaser: A flavor packed adventure that started in Guyana, meandered over to Venezuela, and strayed into the Caribbean. We then stumbled back across the Panama Canal heading northwards into Guatemala and, not knowing exactly how we got there, ended up in Key West, Florida. There are bars that function as places to rest, refresh and enjoy the company of others.

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How to Attract and Retain the Best Generation Z (iGen) Talent in the Hospitality Industry

Bar and Restaurant Coach

Welcome back to Part 2 of our 3-part series on Generation Z (aka iGen). Today we’re talking specifically to Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials who (for the most part) will be hiring, training, and managing this new generation. Just to recap, the generations break down like this—again, we’re speaking in general terms here. Baby Boomers to Generation Z.

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Going Veg? Saving the planet one meal at a time

Future Food

Image via Tommys Superfoods. Going Veg? Saving the planet one meal at a time. Today’s world of eating out and retail food is changing fast. An ever-increasing growth in vegetarian and vegan food choices reflects how we as a community feel about the future in general and food in particular. Towards that end, we want to save our planet one meal at a time.

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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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Planning For a Positive Work Culture in Your Coffee Shop

Perfect Daily Grind

Demotivated employees, sloppy work, and resignations from your best team members: all things that can make a coffee shop unprofitable. And all of them can be caused by a negative work culture. . Your staff is one of your biggest investments and your biggest assets. But as a start-up or even an established coffee shop, how can you plan for good employee attitudes and high retention rates?

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DO YOU CONDUCT JOB REVIEWS?

Food Business

Conducting reviews for your staff is not as hard as you think. The benefits are so worthwhile. Here's my story about job reviews. You need them. It’s that simple. It took me a few years, to learn this lesson. I finally figured out why my young staff needed job reviews. If you think a casual compliments, or one zinger corrective statement will work, think again.

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[Case Study] How The Burger’s Priest Made Life in Their Restaurant Easier with 7shifts

7 Shifts

The Burger Priest is a classic, California-style burger joint “redeeming one burger at a time.” Started by a pastor-turned-restaurateur, The Burger’s Priest slings burgers, milkshakes, and fries at 19 locations across Canada. Frustrated with disjointed scheduling and communication processes, The Burger’s Priest came to 7shifts to streamline scheduling and communication to keep their team in the know and consistently hit their labor targets.

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3 Ways Omnichannel Affects Restaurants

Focus POS

Omnichannel [adj.]: Denoting or relating to a type of retail that integrates the different methods of shopping available to consumers (e.g. online, in a physical store, or by phone). While the dictionary defines omnichannel as being specific to retail, restaurant owners are beginning to recognize its value in the hospitality sector as well. In an era of constant connectivity, providing positive customer experiences both online and offline is critical.

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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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Why a Bar Consultant is Your Restaurant’s Missing Link

Goliath Consulting

After weeks of time-consuming meetings with local liquor distribution reps, local market research, and decision wavering, you finally feel confident that your bar is set up and ready to go. You put in your best effort to provide your customers with a great selection at a great value. You stop by your local corporate chain restaurant to celebrate a job well done and can’t help but to look at their liquor list to compare prices.

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Low Carb Mixed Alcoholic Drinks and Vegan Alcohol

Bottleneck Management

If you enjoy cocktails but are looking for lighter options, there are plenty of low carb alcoholic choices that are tasty in a mixed drink. Whether you’re looking to be more health-conscious with low carb alcoholic mixed drinks or vegan alcoholic drinks , or are just interested in trying something new, we’ve compiled some delicious options for you.

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How Long Should It Take You to Train Your Baristas?

Perfect Daily Grind

The list of things you need to train your baristas on is long. There’s pulling espresso shots, steaming silky-smooth milk, pouring symmetrical latte art, preparing manual brews, cleaning equipment and workspaces, providing exceptional customer service, using the till and POS system, recommending food and drink (and remembering allergy information), dialling in….

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Cracking the Language Barrier: When is Hospitality Not Hospitality

Future Food

Bavel, LA - Hospitality Design Award Finalist Image Via Bavel DTLA. Cracking the Language Barrier. WHEN IS HOSPITALITY NOT HOSPITALITY? When it’s in the United States. Now before you think we are taking a shot at our American friends, I assure you we are not. We talk a lot about Hospitality here at Future Food, so it is interesting to note that what we think it means is not a universal definition.

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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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[Case Study] How Snakes & Lattes Cut Their Restaurant Labor Cost by 8% with 7shifts

7 Shifts

Snakes & Lattes is Toronto’s premiere board game cafe, with 5 locations across the city. After struggling with time and money lost to manual scheduling, they ditched spreadsheets to streamline their scheduling, communication, and performance tracking with 7shifts’ easy-to-use, intuitive labor management platform. With 7shifts, Snakes & Lattes drastically reduced overtime, trimmed their labor cost percentage by 8%, and grew their sales per labor hour by 5.2%.

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How Your Pizzeria Can Fight Back Against Unfair Online Ordering Fees

ChowNow

Thanks to its universal appeal and easily portable nature, pizza has been a beloved staple of restaurant takeout for decades. It’s not surprising that in the age of online ordering, pizzerias are uniquely poised to profit. Online ordering grows order volume and size , increases revenue, boosts efficiency , and fosters customer loyalty. If your pizzeria is one of the over 58% that already has online ordering, you’re likely already seeing these sorts of benefits.

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Generation Z in the Marketplace – How to Engage and Get Them into Your Venue

Bar and Restaurant Coach

Generation Z will make up 40% of the overall marketplace spend in the next few years. How can you attract them as guests, and keep them coming back? We’re back this week with the final episode in our 3-part Generation Series. As a reminder, in Part 1 we led with an introduction to Gen Z (iGen); what they stand for and how they differ from prior generations.

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15 Super Helpful How-To Articles for the Restaurant CEO

Aaron Allen & Associates

We’ve worked with executive leadership teams of some of the most successful established and emerging foodservice and hospitality companies around the world, supporting with strategic issues related to growth and expansion, performance optimization, brand strategy, marketing, due diligence, and how to enhance and maintain enterprise value. Through more than 2,000 senior-level engagements, we’ve consolidated some insights related to the most pressing questions our clients come to us wi

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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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How Much & Why Do You Tip Your Barista?

Perfect Daily Grind

Depending on where you are and where you’re from, tipping can be something that you don’t think twice about or a slightly awkward and confusing social norm. Some of us throw our loose change into a jar whenever we order a pour over, whereas others are sure to leave at least 20% more than the price of a latte. Some customers don’t leave a tip unless the service is exemplary.

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How to Encourage Referrals for Your Auto Shop

Indoor Media

How many times do you have a friend ask you, “Hey, who do you use for ?” Whatever the service, people like to know what companies their friends and family are using and their experiences with them. I mean, how else can you find someone you trust with your air conditioner, home repair, or beloved pet? Auto repair has a rough reputation in a lot of circles, so it is one of those services people often ask their friends or family about before choosing a mechanic.

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[Case Study] How Shawn & Ed Brewing Simplified Scheduling and Event Management

7 Shifts

Shawn & Ed Brewing Co. is a craft brewery in the heart of Dundas, Ontario, producing delicious beers sold through a variety of liquor stores as well as their own taproom. Craft beer makes 30% of the beer industry, with lagers making up 80%, allowing Shawn & Ed to compete with big brands due to their lager specialization. Beyond brewing, Shawn & Ed also host private events in their historic building—leaving them with more scheduling complexity than most other brewing companies.

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7 Proven Restaurant Marketing Ideas You’ll Wish Someone Would Have Told You Before

Bingage

The kind of marketing that is done today is completely different from what it used to be earlier. Being a New age business owner, one has to adopt top trending restaurant marketing ideas to promote and get easily discovered by the target audience. Without doing it properly you might feel it difficult to succeed in the restaurant industry. I am sharing several marketing ideas for new-age restaurant owners that I tried and tested on my clients and they got an overwhelming response.

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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