Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 19, 2024

Buying locally has been trending for quite a few years for several reasons. People have become increasingly aware of climate change and the importance of ethical sourcing. Consumers want to support their communities, and do so by attending and buying from family owned businesses, art fairs, and local brands. Their desire to shop local has extended to farmers markets and the food industry.

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7 Shifts

AUGUST 20, 2024

It’s no secret that more customers equals higher revenue. However, with fewer customers dining out weekly , restaurants must ensure that they can serve each diner quickly and satisfy them enough that they’ll want to return. Table turnover rate is a crucial factor to consider if you want to provide efficient service. Tracking and implementing strategies to improve this metric will allow you to maximize your dining space and generate more revenue.

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TastyIgniter

AUGUST 20, 2024

Revolutionize your restaurant's service delivery and boost customer satisfaction with these strategies: understand customer expectations, enhance service quality, optimize food quality, streamline operations, create a customer-centric culture, leverage technology, and measure satisfaction. Transform your restaurant from good to great and ensure long-term success.

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ChowNow

AUGUST 19, 2024

Whether you’re a roadside fruit stand or a Michelin star restaurant, cash flow management is crucial. It doesn’t matter how fine-tuned your menu is or how much marketing buzz you have if you’re spending more money than you’re earning. Understandably, most restaurant owners aren’t financial experts. And there’s more to restaurant cash management than simply bringing in more money to cover expenses.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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.

Restaurant Business

AUGUST 19, 2024

The activist investor wants five of the 10 seats on the family-dining operator's board, including one for himself, the company said. With one ally already seated, Biglari could control a majority of votes.

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QSR Automations

AUGUST 21, 2024

Partnership to Integrate Advanced Kitchen Technology Across Fast-Growing Restaurant Chain LOUISVILLE, Ky, August 21, 2024 — Today, QSR Automations , a global leader in kitchen automation and guest management services, announced its strategic partnership with Dave’s Hot Chicken. Since its start, Dave’s Hot Chicken has gone from scrappy, late-night pop-up to one of the fastest-growing restaurant chains in the nation.

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Culinary Cues

AUGUST 19, 2024

I have been thinking about the meaning of competition since the Olympics came to a close. Depending on the context, competition can be friendly and engaging, or brutal and combative. It can be something that inspires and pulls people together or a mindset that polarizes and drives people in a destructive direction. Competition can be joyful and uplifting or it can spiral out of control, tearing away at reason and good faith.

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Restaurant Technology Guys

AUGUST 19, 2024

Successfully Scaling Your Franchise with Pivotal Growth Partners Introduction Jeremy: Thanks everyone for joining us. As always, I don’t take your time for granted. We know there are many things you could be doing on the internet, so we appreciate you spending time with us. Today, we’re in for a fun conversation.

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Planet Grape

AUGUST 19, 2024

The post 2021 Landmark Vineyards Pinot Noir Rayhill Vineyard Russian River Valley appeared first on planet grape® wine review.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 21, 2024

Artificial Intelligence is not normally associated with emotion, but PMG recently partnered with Wurl to use their AI-powered emotion targeting to align their clients' QSR ads with content that conveyed emotions related to hunger and cravings. The result: PMG found was a 40 percent increase in incremental store visits and 48 percent lift in incremental sales.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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.

7 Shifts

AUGUST 21, 2024

Communication is key in virtually every workplace, but this rings especially true in the restaurant industry. With the industry facing a 73% annual turnover rate and poor communication being the number one reason staff quit , there is a lot that effective team communication could do to improve the hospitality industry. Watch the video version of these 5 restaurant communication tips In order to build an effective work culture and a productive team, restaurant leaders need to communicate successf

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EATER

AUGUST 20, 2024

Lille Allen Brands like Fly By Jing and Bachan’s are reaching a whole new audience from the shelves of the ultimate big-box store The last decade or so has been a golden era for cool food products sold directly to consumers online. Think of Fly By Jing, the wildly popular Sichuan chile crisp, or Magic Spoon, the grain-free, low-carb cereal that’s earned a cult following.

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Restaurant Business

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Mexican fast-food chain said that a “small minority” will opt out of the morning meal in October after the company gave operators the option.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 20, 2024

Alain Coumont founded Le Pain Quotidien focused on organic ingredients and the brand is now adding a new ingredient to the mix: artifical intelligence. Partnering with November Five, Le Pain Quotidien launched Alain.AI, a tool that can be called the world's first digital twin of a chef-founder and used to help with menu development, recipe standardization, and culinary innovation. "As a restaurant business, we use AI to go faster and to develop the business further," Annick Van Overs

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Speaker: David Worrell, CFO, Author & Speaker

Your financial statements hold powerful insights—but are you truly paying attention? Many finance professionals focus on the income statement while overlooking key signals hidden in the balance sheet and cash flow statement. Understanding these numbers can unlock smarter decision-making, uncover risks, and drive long-term success. Join David Worrell, accomplished CFO, finance expert, and author, for an engaging, nontraditional take on reading financial statements.

2025

7 Shifts

AUGUST 18, 2024

Opening a restaurant is a big challenge that requires a huge investment of time and money. But the challenges don’t stop there—once open you have to focus on improving processes, managing labor schedules, and controlling restaurant costs. Indeed, controlling restaurant costs is one of your biggest challenges. Not only do you have to manage many costs including, labor, equipment, and food—but you have to do it while dealing with inevitable price increases.

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EATER

AUGUST 22, 2024

Chris Loupos The “Reservation Dogs” co-creator and Oklahoma native shares his must-visit spots in Tulsa and more If you are reading this and have still not seen Reservation Dogs , I am sure I’m not the first to tell you that you’re missing out. The FX dramedy is beloved — critically acclaimed, and now ( finally ) Emmy-nominated — for its depiction of life on a reservation in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma.

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Restaurant Business

AUGUST 23, 2024

In addition, three board members have resigned from the parent company of BurgerFi and Anthony's Coal-Fired Pizza, indicating bankruptcy could be coming.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 22, 2024

With guests searching for value, how can local restaurants compete and thrive in such a competitive market and build trust withconsumers who are more cautious about price and safety than ever? "Value has been the buzzword for restaurants across the map over the past year or so, but while guests want to realize value, food costs have been volatile and credit card processing and other fees cut into the bottom line," Mani Kulasooriya, Co-Founder & CEO of Cut+Dry, an all-in-one platform

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

2025

7 Shifts

AUGUST 18, 2024

Opening and owning a bar is one of those unique life experiences; you have no idea what it will be like until you actually go for it. And while it can be enjoyable, rewarding, and, yes—even profitable, it also requires long hours and hard work. In this guide, we're covering everything you need to know about owning a bar to prepare as well as you can for the big opening day.

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EATER

AUGUST 23, 2024

The Uptown Minneapolis restaurant Kim’s, operated by James Beard Award-winning chef Ann Kim, will close on August 30, two months after its staff voted to unionize.

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Restaurant Business

AUGUST 20, 2024

Retail Watch: Circle K’s owner wants to buy 7-Eleven’s owner, as well as the regional GetGo convenience chain. The deals will likely fuel even more fast-food competition.

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Modern Restaurant Management

AUGUST 21, 2024

Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen & Bar released a micro documentary “A Journey Through Appalachia,” which celebrates the unique ingredients, techniques and culinary traditions of southern Appalachia. The video follows Tupelo Honey’s four-time James Beard Award semifinalist Executive Chef Eric Gabrynowicz on a week-long exploration of this rich food culture, “Appalachian culture has shaped our food in so many ways, and this is our way to pay homage to our roots,” sa

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Advertiser: Paycor

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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ChowNow

AUGUST 23, 2024

As a restaurant owner, understanding your financial health is critical to long-term success. One essential tool for assessing your restaurant’s financial performance is the break-even analysis. This analysis helps you determine the point at which your restaurant starts to make a profit—where your total revenue equals your total costs. By conducting a break-even analysis, you can make informed decisions about pricing, cost management , and overall strategy.

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Sculpture Hospitality

AUGUST 23, 2024

Ready to master your bar’s profitability? Learn how you can calculate your bar’s pour cost and identify inventory variance for higher profit margins.

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The Rail

AUGUST 23, 2024

By Jill Goodwin, Contributor The way you photograph a restaurant's interior and exterior can profoundly impact customers' perceptions. Aside from food quality, atmosphere, and brand identity, how your restaurant looks are some of the most important components of a high-value restaurant experience. However, this is not always an easy challenge. Part of what makes capturing restaurant environments challenging is that they require the nuanced concepts of ambiance to land well with online consumers.

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Next Restaurants

AUGUST 20, 2024

By Alexandra Sheehan, Contributor Running a restaurant involves a lot of moving parts. It can be difficult to stay on top of everything, let alone make sure you’re optimized to run as efficiently as possible. But that’s why it’s so important to run an efficient restaurant —because things can get so unwieldy so quickly. Restaurant efficiency is about more than just doing things as quickly as possible.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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.

Leadership

Open for Business

AUGUST 21, 2024

Solo dining is gaining momentum, with more and more people choosing to enjoy meals alone. More than half (52%) of US consumers say they’re planning to dine solo this year, with Gen Z and Millennials more likely to embrace this trend, according to consumer research by OpenTable and Kayak.* There are many factors driving the surge in solo dining, including an increase in single households, a desire for more “me time,” and business travel.

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Crunchtime

AUGUST 21, 2024

Discover how Wingstop navigates the challenges of maintaining brand standards and implementing technology for growth in the restaurant industry.

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Sling

AUGUST 19, 2024

The payroll process starts when your employees clock in and ends when you distribute funds. In between there, though, is another extremely important step that serves as the foundation for everything that comes after it: using the time data to calculate work hours. Without this step, timecards are nothing but a long list of numbers that aren’t relevant to writing paychecks.

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EATER

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Raleigh chef was held on $7,000 bond in the Wake County Detention Center

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Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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