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Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) FAQ for Restaurant Operators

Restaurant365

The following are actual questions asked by restaurant operators about the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). For simplicity, PPP1 refers to the first round of PPP loans under the CARES Act in 2020 and PPP2 refers to the newest round of PPP loans under the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits and Venues Act (Economic Aid Act) as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021.

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How Daily Lunch Specials Can Drive New Patrons

Restaurant Engine

Bring a new group of patrons to your restaurants with lunch specials. More than 90% of American workers buy their lunch out at least once a week. This is a great target audience for your restaurant and a great way to build your business. In this article, we look at how daily lunch specials can drive new patrons at your restaurant. You’ll be more profitable if you can increase your lunch sales.

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Ways Restaurants Can Encourage Direct Ordering

Modern Restaurant Management

COVID-19 has forced restaurants to rely on takeout and delivery sales to drive the majority of their sales. For some, off-premise already constituted a large percentage of their revenue, and they had the systems in place to pivot when dining rooms closed. Many others, however, had to build their off-premise operations from scratch to combat sudden dine-in closures.

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CHEFS – VALUE and the TOP LINE DRIVE the BOTTOM LINE

Culinary Cues

In the restaurant business there are really only two ways to view profit: a very small amount of profit balanced by very significant volume, or a significant amount of profit on far less volume. How you approach the design of your restaurant in this regard will determine nearly everything else. How you approach profit will determine what your physical plant will look like, the scope of sophistication in your kitchen, who your vendors will be, how many employees you will hire and the depth of the

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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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10 Email Marketing Ideas for Restaurants to Drive Sales

ChowNow

If your restaurant isn’t using email marketing, now is the ideal time to start. It may seem like a big undertaking—especially given everything else you’re probably managing—but it’ll be worth your while. Restaurant email marketing is one of the most cost-effective ideas to stay top of mind, engage with your customers, and increase sales. . Online ordering has become extremely popular, so much so that digital sales will account for more than half of limited-service and quick-service sales b

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A Different Kind of Room Service

EATER

With indoor dining still not an option in much of the country, hotel restaurants are using empty rooms as private dining suites There are few restaurants Hector Tamez frequents more than Uni , the izakaya located in Boston’s boutique Eliot Hotel. Consider the presentation, he says, or how the staff feels like family. Then, of course, there’s the Chiang Mai duck carnitas.

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A SURREALISTIC PILLOW EVENT

Culinary Cues

In the mid-sixties, a relatively unknown band (outside of San Francisco) released an album that would become one of the enduring recordings of the last 60 years. The Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow was both strange (surreal) and comforting (pillow) in its beautiful melodies (Today and Coming Back to Me) and cutting edge norm shakers (Somebody to Love and White Rabbit).

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??7 Secrets of Virtual Wine Tasting Kits You’ll Love

A Wine Story

Virtual Wine Tasting Kits. Virtual Wine Tasting Kits Virtual Wine Tasting Kits. How could any wine lover endure the pandemic without them? The Unified Wine Symposium recently featured an informative seminar about virtual wine tasting kits. These may shape the wine tasting experience of the future. Virtual Wine Tasting Kits The phrase “virtual wine tasting kits” is something of a misnomer.

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The Best Recipes to Cook This Week, According to Eater Staffers Who Actually Cooked Them 

EATER

Lesley Suter. A chicken and pea traybake from Nigella, perfect blueberry muffins from Bon Appétit, and more It’s week trazillion-and-four of pandemic cooking, and you’ve hit a rut. Nay, a trench. Winter’s produce is less than inspiring, you’ve done all the things one can do to a bean, and while the digital cook-o-sphere is loaded with ideas, there are just too many of them.

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Five Ways to Create a Safer Dining Experience and Workplace

Modern Restaurant Management

In response to the unparalleled challenges created by the COVID-19 crisis, restaurants are going to great lengths to adhere to countless hygiene protocols that will provide a safer, cleaner environment for their customers and employees. Whether it’s offering dining in, takeout or delivery, businesses are committed to keeping their employees safe and helping a cautious public feel more confident about eating out again.

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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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What is a PEO and How Can It Help Your Business?

Hot Schedules

Blog. What is a PEO & How Can It Help Your Business? Learn everything you need to know about PEOs. H uman resource administration is a fundamental responsibility of any successful business, but it can create its fair share of headaches — especially for small business owners. If HR roadblocks or the pains of payroll processing are standing in the way of your business’ performance, it might be time to consider help from a Professional Employer Organization (PEO).

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How to Manage Daily Restaurant Finances Like a Pro

Sculpture Hospitality

The most successful restaurants all have world-class dishes, fantastic staff members, acclaimed drinks menus, and Instagram-worthy venues - all part of delivering the most amazing customer experience.

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Why Caracas Arepa Bar’s House Salsa Is a Condiment All-Star

EATER

Caracas Arepa Bar’s house salsa | Caracas Arepa Bar [Official]. The Venezuelan restaurant created the sauce by accident, but it’s come to be one of its most enduring hits There are condiments that work best when they’re added to other foods, and then there are condiments so good that they’re a star attraction in their own right. Such is the case with Caracas Arepa Bar’s spicy, sweet, and tangy house sauce — or, as Caracas co-owner Maribel Araujo calls it, “salsa Caracas.”.

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Five Ways for Restaurants to Make Valentine’s Day Special in 2021

Modern Restaurant Management

Valentine’s Day is coming up – one of the busiest holidays of the year for restaurants. According to SlickText’s “2021 Share the Love Survey,” 34 percent of respondents said their biggest Valentine’s Day spend will be at restaurants and 46 percent are prioritizing spending money at local businesses. Even with COVID-19 causing unexpected changes to your usual Valentine's Day plans, there are plenty of creative ways your restaurant can celebrate a day of lov

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

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.

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How COVID-19 Should Affect Your Online Marketing Efforts

Next Restaurants

By Adrian Johansen, Contributor. At the beginning of 2020, none of us could have imagined how the year would unfold and how COVID-19 would affect our lives. As a restaurant owner, simply surviving the year took incredible creativity. As we now move forward into 2021 , it’s more obvious than ever that digital marketing is essential in this industry. Communicating online and making sure your patrons know your hours, offers, policies, procedures and more can keep things going strong even if you’re

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3 quick and easy design fixes to improve your hospitality website

Typsy

Websites are an absolute must-have for your hospitality business. Your online presence can help you find reach new customers, and keep the ones you already have engaged with your brand! But if you're not careful, certain design flaws can be really off-putting. If the user experience is too confusing, or people feel like you're wasting their time, they'll leave your site and probably won't come back.

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Five Reasons Why Online Reviews Are So Important for Your Business

Thrive POS

In 2020, COVID-19 left an unmistakable mark on the independent and small chain restaurant community. Many consumers have abandoned brick and mortar retail shops and restaurants in favor of eCommerce and online ordering and delivery. With so many consumers surfing the internet, online reviews have become just as important as family and friends' recommendations.

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Improving Restaurant Employee Accountability

Modern Restaurant Management

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurant owners scrambled to adjust to new laws, procedures and safeguards. For many, it meant shutting their doors temporarily or operating with reduced staff. If good help was already hard to find, then the pandemic exacerbated that challenge. Now that most restaurants have opened their doors, they’re realizing that the landscape has changed.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

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.

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Restaurant Technology Guys selected as 2021 top restaurant blog

Restaurant Technology Guys

We did it! The Restaurant Technology Guys have made the list of the top restaurant industry blogs to follow in 2021. ZoomShift’s annual list puts RTG in the #17 spot. RTG joins the ranks of other popular restaurant industry blogs, such as: Foodable Network MarketingMan ChowNow BentoBox The Restaurant Manifesto And more. Follow the Restuarant Technology Guys on social media or subscribe to our newsletter to learn more.

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The Autonomous Foodservice Revolution

Foodable

The revolution of automated foodservice operations has rapidly increased over the last year. Host Paul Barron , along with his panelist; Vipin Jain — CEO & Co-Founder of Blendid , Randall Wilkinson — CEO of Wilkinson Baking Company , and Andy Lin — CEO & Founder of Yo-Kai Express. With innovations outside of BOH kitchen operations, new kiosk-style robotics are popping up everywhere, is tech able to preserve quality and experience?

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7 Smart Ways (Practical) to Increase your Restaurant Sales in 2021

Bingage

We all know that the F&B industry is one of the hardest-hit industry during the pandemic that made drastic changes in the way it operates. Now We have successfully entered into 2021. This year people have several hopes to make a satisfying business to cope up with 2020 loses. Now, what are the ways that you should adopt to increase restaurant sales & customers in 2021?

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Rethink Your Restaurant Tech to Quickly Address Ever-Changing Consumer Demands

Modern Restaurant Management

As new challenges arise and consumers demand change, new technology solutions emerge to help restaurant owners keep up. The digital transformation will support restaurant owners in ways that may not have been previously possible. The speed with which the industry shifts is only increasing. As a restaurant owner, this means that you must learn how to evolve quickly to fit today’s standards.

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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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Tapping The Potential Of Cloud Kitchens With Shake It Off

The Restaurant Times

Shake it off, a Milkshake-bar concept was started by Nishant Tripathi with his co-founder in 2016. Shake it off has been one of the early movers to bring the concept of thick milkshakes in Bangalore. Nishant is passionate about building brands and business creation on the pillar of customer satisfaction. In just about 4 years the brand has scaled in Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and is continuously expanding in Southern India.

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Velvet Taco New Design Model | How Drive Thru Pickup Lane Increased Throughput 20%

Foodable

The Fast Casual Nation podcast offers exclusive interviews with experts ranging from top chefs and brand makers to executives and restaurateurs who work in one of the fastest-growing segments of the restaurant industry. In this episode, host Paul Barron sits down with Clay Dover, the chief executive officer and taco maker at Velvet Taco , to explore drive-thru technology.

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5 Things Restaurant Operators Should Know about ERC

Xtra Chef

The new Consolidated Appropriations Act brings about a few changes that all restaurant operators should know. What is the PPP & ERC? The Payment Protection Program (PPP) is a 2- or 5-year low-rate loan provided by the government to offset the burden of expenses in spite of reduced revenue. The PPP loan is forgivable and can be used for payroll, rent, utilities, etc.

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The Pandemic Dining Experience (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

In this episode of The Main Course host Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia talks about hot button restaurant industry issues such curbside pickup and delivery, outdoor dining and more with Buck Sleeper, Director of Retail and Restaurants at EPAM Continuum. Sleeper believes curbside is here to stay, but increasing human interaction is still a challenge.

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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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How to Carefully Handle Customer Complaints

Indoor Media

With more and more people shopping online, this year has meant a slew of returned products, damaged goods, and unhappy customers. Sometimes, these outcomes are simply out of your control. But at other times, maybe something really did go wrong on your end — and that’s okay. It’s important to be honest with your customers, and when it comes to online feedback, this task can be very daunting.

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From Fast Casual, to Fine Dining, to Finance | Season 2, Vol. 9: FAST Acquisition Corp.

Foodable

In the latest episode of the Hospitality Hangout podcast, Michael Schatzberg “The Restaurant Guy” and Jimmy Frischling “The Finance Guy” sit down with Kimberly Grant, the co-sponsor and chief strategy officer at FAST Acquisition Group, to explore her rise in the restaurant industry, and what lies ahead for FAST. FAST Acquisition Group is a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) servicing the restaurant industry.

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Social Buddy Review: Does Social Buddy Work?

Restaurant Clicks

Whether you’re posting on behalf of your business or just sharing selfies, everyone wants more Instagram followers. Many Instagram users turn to Instagram growth tools to help them get more Instagram followers faster. . As restaurant marketers, many of our clients are looking for ways to improve their presence on social media platforms like Instagram.

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What Is An FLSA Exempt Employee: Everything Managers Need To Know

Sling

Putting FLSA exempt employees on your payroll can have a significant impact on your business’s bottom line. But what exactly is an FLSA exempt employee? What other options are there? And what are the pros and cons of choosing exempt over another classification? In this article, the workforce-management experts at Sling will discuss those questions and tell you everything you need to know to make the right decision for your business.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

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.