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Three Strategies to Set Your Restaurant Team Up for Summer Success 

Modern Restaurant Management

Summer hiring is in full swing, and many restaurants are struggling to navigate one of their busiest seasons of the year while dealing with ongoing labor shortages and a volatile economy. Turbulent times call for creative solutions, so focusing on efficiencies and making investments in your staff are the best areas to tackle when it comes to running a restaurant this summer.

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RESTAURANTS SHOULD THINK “MEMBERSHIP”

Sante

One of the most difficult tasks to accomplish in the restaurant business is attracting new customers. The process takes time, imagination, consistent effort, money, and follow-through. This investment should (must) result in more than a single or occasional visit to the restaurant.

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Boost Your Restaurant Business with Geo-fencing: Tips and Tricks

Goliath Consulting

Are you a restaurant owner or manager looking for ways to attract more customers and increase sales? Look no further than geo-fencing! This location-based marketing technique uses GPS or RFID technology to create a virtual boundary around a specific area, such as your restaurant’s location. In this blog post, we’ll explore how geo-fencing can help your restaurant business and provide tips for implementing this strategy effectively.

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TECHNOLOGY AND RESTAURANT CULTURE (part two)

Culinary Cues

TECHNOLOGY AND RESTAURANT CULTURE Learning to live with technology and stay in control is essential. We need to embrace the good and understand the bad and the ugly. This is not easy since the access to and use of technology and its influential sidekicks: social media and 24/7 news is so universal that nearly everyone sees them as essential to our way of life, but we need to try.

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The Buyer’s Guide to HR & Payroll Technology

Choosing an HCM partner is one of the most important decisions you’ll make because time is one of your company’s most strategic assets. How do you want to spend your time?

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Outdoor dining is here to stay!

Hospitality Insurance Group

Below are some tips for successful outdoor dining. Get Proper Permits. Before you get started, please check with your local municipality to see what permits and ordinances are in place. The safety of your guests and staff should be the #1 priority. Since outdoor spaces are typically uneven, the space should be inspected to make sure there are no cracks, potholes or rutting for customers or staff to fall or trip on.

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Introducing Review Management Suite: Setting New Standards in Online Reputation Management

The Eat Restaurant

We are thrilled to announce the release of our latest feature - R eview Management Integration , designed to enhance your restaurant's online reputation and streamline your operations right from within Eat App.

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CDC traces 40% of foodborne-illness outbreaks to infected workers

Restaurant Business

The finding is likely to foster efforts to mandate paid sick leave.

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Benefits of Automation and Digital Offerings in Restaurant Spaces

Restaurant Business

In restaurants, one persisting issue operators are facing is labor. Hiring and retaining staff have been challenges in recent years, and labor costs are on the rise as well. Additionally, an increased focus on cleanliness and food safety has been top of mind for both operators and consumers alike. Some operators are facing these challenges with innovation, however—adding automation as well as incorporating more digital offerings that help reduce staff intervention in processes are becoming more

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How to Beat Inflation in the Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

Owners of eating and drinking places have been compelled to increase menu prices as a survival strategy. Full-service menu prices jumped 8.8 percent and limited-service menu prices rose 7.1 percent in September year-over-year. However, continuing to raise prices to try to beat inflation could sound the death knell for restaurants at a time when they should be reveling in tune with the Christmas bells.

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How does automation make the specialty coffee sector more productive? 

Perfect Daily Grind

Over the past few years, the global coffee industry has undergone many changes. One of the most prominent is an increasing move towards automation and technology. During this period, we have seen the uptake of automated systems and technologies grow across every level of the coffee supply chain – from production to roasting to brewing. And while the skills and expertise of industry professionals are still an essential part of specialty coffee, it’s safe to say that relying on technology only ser

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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The Best Father’s Day Promotions for Bars and Restaurants

Buzztime Business

This Father’s Day, Dad will live like a king. Americans plan to spend these impressive father figures: The average person will drop $171 for a record-setting $20.1 billion total. To bring Dad and his fam to your bar or restaurant, launch Father’s Day promotions that treat him like royalty. Every Daypart for Dad! Father’s Day Promotions from Dawn Till Dusk 1) Bluesy Brunch Start the day with brunch as one of your Father’s Day promotions.

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An Eater’s Guide to Prince Edward Island

EATER

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. | Peter Unger /Getty Images PEI is known for its mussels, but “Canada’s Food Island” also boasts tons of other seafood, a thriving beef industry, an impressive culinary school, and stellar breweries along famous red sand beaches and coastal drives There are few places in the world that are more naturally beautiful and charming than Canada’s Prince Edward Island.

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Digital Dining: What Restaurants Need to Know Now

Modern Restaurant Management

In February 2023, our Revenue Management Solutions (RMS) data analytics team advised on the benefits of attracting and keeping frequent diners. According to our Q1 2023 survey , frequent users were not just visiting QSRs; they planned to keep visiting. These raring-to-dine customers were twice as likely as other respondents to increase their future visits.

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How can data be used to improve espresso extraction?

Perfect Daily Grind

There has never been as much of a focus on improving espresso extraction as there is today. Thanks to the growth of specialty coffee, more and more cafés and roasters are finding new ways to get the best results from their coffee. This can range from grinding coffee from frozen to using different distribution techniques during puck prep. Ultimately, for customers to experience the full spectrum of a coffee’s flavours and aromas, baristas need to optimise extraction as much as possible.

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The Buyer’s Guide to HR & Payroll Technology

Choosing an HCM partner is one of the most important decisions you’ll make because time is one of your company’s most strategic assets. How do you want to spend your time?

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6 Inventory Management Tips from Leading Restaurant Brands

Crunchtime

Inventory is often an area full of sneaky profit leaks for many multi-unit restaurants, which is why even the most seasoned restaurant operators are rethinking how they approach inventory — from counting, to reviews, to ordering and everything in between.

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Madhur Jaffrey’s ‘An Invitation to Indian Cooking’ Introduced Many Americans to a Complex Culinary Tradition

EATER

Lille Allen/Eater Published in 1973, it wasn’t the first Indian cookbook in this country, but it was the one that caught on Madhur Jaffrey initially became a cookbook author, she writes in the first line of An Invitation to Indian Cooking , “as a gradual maneuver in self-defense.” She wasn’t defending herself from anything more malevolent than the curiosity of her friends and acquaintances.

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For Restaurants, Investing in Loyalty Is an Investment in the Future

Modern Restaurant Management

By now, loyalty programs have shifted from a “nice-to-have” to a “need-to-have” for restaurants looking to retain customers and drive revenue amid record inflation figures and increased prices. In fact, research from Accenture found that more than 90 percent of companies have some sort of loyalty program. Although the development and implementation of loyalty programs have become increasingly popular, they still have a widespread reputation as generic, focusing more on ma

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How can specialty coffee shops use automation to improve extraction?

Perfect Daily Grind

In specialty coffee shops around the world, there has never been more of a focus on improving coffee extraction. One of the biggest skills any barista needs to master is knowing how to tweak brew variables to achieve the best results possible. In line with this, more and more coffee businesses have started to leverage the power of automation. Whether it’s using high-tech espresso machines or automated pour over brewers to assist with extraction, automation can ultimately help coffee shops offer

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Diving into Diversity: Decoding the Foundations of Inclusion in Hospitality Talent Acquisition

Speaker: Lauren Fernandez - CEO & Founder, Full Course

Companies all over the world, including Marriot International and Hilton Worldwide, are aware of the value of including DEI in their talent acquisition strategy. However, despite these initiatives, there is still plenty that the hospitality sector can do to promote DEI. When comparing the hospitality industries in India, Iraq, the UK, and the US, you will see that there is a consistent underrepresentation of persons from different ethnic, gender, and disability origins across all levels of the i

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6 Inventory Management Tips from Leading QSRs

Crunchtime

Inventory is often an area full of sneaky profit leaks for many QSRs, which is why even the most seasoned restaurant operators are rethinking how they approach inventory — from counting, to reviews, to ordering and everything in between.

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How I Got My Job: Building an Urban Beekeeping Business

EATER

Photo of Andrew Coté by Paulo Anjou Andrew Coté followed his fathers footsteps into beekeeping; now Andrew’s Honey is a go-to resource for beekeepers and for restaurants looking for top-notch honey In How I Got My Job , folks from across the food and restaurant industry answer Eater’s questions about, well, how they got their job. Today’s installment: Andrew Coté.

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Time to Celebrate Dad and Boost Revenue – Restaurant Marketing Ideas for Father’ Day

Modern Restaurant Management

Now that temperatures have officially warmed up, consumers are more eager than ever to dine outside and on-premise. Although restaurant operators are no strangers to this shift in behavior, what they may be overlooking is the chance to leverage one of summer’s biggest revenue driving celebrations – Father’s Day. According to the National Retail Federation , consumers spent approximately $20 billion in 2022 on this annual day dedicated to Dad and it was celebrated by nearly 76 p

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Coffee News Recap, 2 Jun: PRF to launch new No Filter panel series, USDA estimates Tanzanian coffee production to increase by 21% & other stories

Perfect Daily Grind

Every Friday, Perfect Daily Grind rounds up the top coffee industry news from the previous week. Here are this week’s stories. Mon, 29 May PRF announces new No Filter panel series. The new innovative panel discussion format will debut at PRF Colombia, which takes place on 14 & 15 September 2023 in Medellín. The aim of the panel series is to discuss some of the most pressing yet often overlooked issues in the coffee industry.

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3 Leadership Behaviors that Drive Loyalty & Engagement

Why are HR leaders so important to business success? Because leaders across the organization, from the C-suite to frontline managers, disproportionately affect employee engagement. It goes back to the old saying: “A boss has the title, but a leader has the people.” Learn more and discover the 3 steps to driving loyalty and engagement: The true power of intentional coaching The secret to optimizing performance The best ways to reward employees & retain top talent Don't miss out, download now!

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5 Ways AI is Impacting the Restaurant Industry

Sculpture Hospitality

The restaurant industry is one of the largest and most dynamic industries in the world, with an estimated value of over $1.5 trillion in 2022. In recent years, the industry has been undergoing a significant transformation thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies.

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Gay Bars Aren’t Disappearing; They’re Changing

EATER

Club Q in Colorado Springs. | Photos by Greggor Mattson In ‘Who Needs Gay Bars?,’ Greggor Mattson explores the past, current, and future of America’s queer spaces There was a moment reading Greggor Mattson’s book, Who Needs Gay Bars? , where I found myself becoming incredibly defensive. One of the 130 gay bar owners he interviewed is bemoaning how his customers are no longer content to hang with friends and converse over a few drinks.

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Time to Celebrate Dad and Boost Revenue – Restaurant Marketing Ideas for Father’s Day

Modern Restaurant Management

Now that temperatures have officially warmed up, consumers are more eager than ever to dine outside and on-premise. Although restaurant operators are no strangers to this shift in behavior, what they may be overlooking is the chance to leverage one of summer’s biggest revenue driving celebrations – Father’s Day. According to the National Retail Federation , consumers spent approximately $20 billion in 2022 on this annual day dedicated to Dad and it was celebrated by nearly 76 p

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What Happens When You Listen to Your Customers (and How to Do This Better)

Crunchtime

In multi-unit restaurants, operators can see, hear, and interact with their customers each time they visit. Customer feedback comes in a variety of forms–they have the opportunity to fill out experience surveys, leave star-rated reviews, and even share insta-worthy photos of their meals. Successful operators extract customer feedback and weave it into their Brand DNA to provide consistently great experiences.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Alcohol beverage payments 101: what you need to know

Margin Edge

This post was written by iControl , the the only third-party payment solution in the food and beverage industry that handles alcohol payments, scan-based trading and accurate point of sale data all in one solution. If your restaurant or retail outlet sells or is planning to sell alcohol, you already know the complexities of a regulated industry. Keeping your back office in order with proper licenses, state law compliance, etc. while trying to focus your time on front-of-house activities by takin

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What to Expect from the 2023 James Beard Awards

EATER

Foundation CEO Clare Reichenbach | Noam Galai/Getty Images And why is there so much drama this year? The James Beard Awards, among the highest honors in the American restaurant industry, are happening soon — Monday, to be precise. Maybe you’ve seen headlines about finalists — and finalists being disqualified. Maybe your favorite local spot is up for an award, maybe you’re pissed it’s not.

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A Nice Way to Fire a Customer

Modern Restaurant Management

In her " Making Dough Show ," owner-operator Hengam Stanfield offers advice on dealling with restaurant management challenges. In this episode, Stanfield discusses a recent experience where she had to part ways with a customer offering practical tips for managing delicate situations. Stanfield also has a variety of free resources including a marketing guide, an opening calculator and a business plan template available on her site.

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On decorum: Talking Restaurants with Nancy Kruse and Lisa Jennings

Restaurant Business

Is it time for American diners to put on proper clothes and start behaving a bit nicer in restaurants? Some operators are bringing back dress codes and more. But it may be too late to turn back from our sweatpants-wearing ways.

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The HR Leader’s Guide to Employee Management

Nothing motivates employees more than a great boss. Creating consistent employee management practices help create a positive workplace culture and improve key performance outcomes across the board.