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Restaurant Hiring in Today’s Reality

Modern Restaurant Management

Every restaurant owner, operator, and manager are currently asking themselves: how do I hire restaurant employees in today’s labor market? It is increasingly difficult to recruit, attract, hire, and retain employees, but there are some insights that can help you navigate a tough labor landscape. The Restaurant Labor Shortage. The restaurant industry is back to busy, with full indoor capacity and a dining public eager to eat out.

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Are Major Food Distributors Failing Small Restaurants?

Cheetah

Reading Time: 4 minutes. The relationship between SMB restaurants and major food distributors has always been shaky. Now it seems that big distributors are squeezing their smaller clients at the worst possible time. This recent example really brings the point home. Some restaurants working with Sysco are reporting outright cancellations via cold text messages, leaving them scrambling for produce and supplies.

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Inflation Is Impacting The Restaurant Industry. Here’s How To Fight It.

7 Shifts

7shifts' collects and analyzes large volumes of restaurant data to help inform our machine learning systems that power our Optimal Labor Tool and other efficiency and time-saving features, like the Automatic Scheduler and Labor Cost Savings Calculator. We also can use the same data to track economic trends in the restaurant industry at large. Recently our Data Team analyzed the changing economics of restaurants as the Covid-19 pandemic's impact on the restaurant industry wanes in the United Stat

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Restaurant Website the Infatuation Has Been Bought by JPMorgan Chase

EATER

Roman Tiraspolsky /Shutterstock. The banking Goliath says the review and guide site — which oversees Zagat — will maintain independence, but Chase credit card holders could receive special perks like curated dining experiences Restaurant website the Infatuation states its goal as bringing “you the most honest and trustworthy opinions on where to eat around the world.

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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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How Can I Prevent Contract Overlaps and Overpricing?

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM's "Ask the Expert” features advice from Buyers Edge Platform. Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. Q: How Can I Prevent Contract Overlaps and Overpricing? A : Contract overlaps and pricing have a lot of impact on restaurant operators and their business, especially for those without supply chain personnel or who are simply too busy to check or double c

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Social Media Marketing – How to Successfully Promote your Restaurant

Goliath Consulting

It’s now the standard that business owners use social media to promote their businesses. Restaurant owners, especially, must be focused on marketing their products on social media. Social media is an important influence on a consumer’s buying decisions. In the U.S., it was reported that 45% of diners tried a restaurant for the first time because of a post they saw on social media. 1 On Instagram, there are over 400 million posts with the hashtags: #food and #drinks. 2.

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The 33 Essential Restaurants in Des Moines

EATER

Goldie’s Ice Cream Shoppe. Where to find an unfussy BYOB French bistro, Ecuadorian comfort food in a strip mall, and the largest craft beer selection west of the Mississippi. Iowa isn’t just about fried food on a stick, loose meat Maid-Rite sandwiches, and presidential hopeful photo ops at the Iowa State Fair. One visit will tell you there’s more to the Hawkeye State than corn fields and corn dogs.

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Sales Mixes: Analyzing Food Costs and Pricing

Modern Restaurant Management

Below is an excerpt from The Business Side of Restaurants: How Intelligent Restaurant Business Entrepreneurs & Investors Can Lead, Win and Make More Money in Life by Clifford K. Bramble. Every item sold within a business contributes to the product mix of item sales. The goal is to make sure they are all working in unison to make the business profitable.

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Pittsburgh Pizza Places to Try the Next Time You Want a Slice

Restaurant Clicks

Pizza is no longer just the staple meal for college kids during finals week. It’s a delicious meal for families, business dinners, and vacationers alike. Everyone loves a classic slice of New York pizza piled high with pepperoni and other tasty toppings. Not just any pizza will rise to the occasion, however. Large chain restaurants can be found all over the country, but finding the local pizzerias makes for a better dining experience.

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Tip Pooling Tools to Easily Manage Tips at Your Restaurant

7 Shifts

Tipping practices are in constant conversation in the restaurant industry. There have been a number of ways in which restaurant owners have tried to create a more equitable system for employees to earn consistent, fair wages to improve retention. Attempts have been made to eliminate tipping altogether, but many restaurants ended up reverting back to a traditional tipping system.

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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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The Chicest Wine Rack Is on Etsy and It’s Only $60

EATER

I had been considering pricey wine coolers until I saw this bamboo rack in a friend’s apartment I rely on what I affectionately refer to as my “wine friends” for all sorts of wine guidance. Do they know a wine bar or shop in Tampa I should visit when I’m there seeing family? Is there a winery in Bordeaux my sister can check out when she’s in town? What birth-year wine might I consider buying for my newborn niece to drink in 21 years?

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The New Era of Restaurant Cleaning and Hygiene

Modern Restaurant Management

Hygiene and cleanliness often go hand in hand, but adoption and follow-through with measures like disinfection , handwashing , and hand sanitizer use within commercial facilities were not as consistent prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Without the widespread threat of infection, cleaning was previously more focused on appearance than protecting public health and was not as strategic as it needs to be today.

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Mobility Equals Flexible Ops: Hotel Purchasing & Inventory from Anywhere

Hot Schedules

Blog. Mobility Equals Flexible Ops: Hotel Purchasing & Inventory from Anywhere. Hotel operators are struggling with three major pain points: the labor shortage, competitive expansion, and lingering lockdown restrictions. Mobile tech solution can fill the gaps left behind by skeleton teams and keep operations competitive. A mid the tumult of a chaotic global hotel market, brands of all sizes are reckoning with myriad unexpected factors — worldwide supply chain disruptions resulting in tempor

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Where to Get Delicious Steak in Pittsburgh

Restaurant Clicks

Pittsburgh is the perfect mix of college town, historical and cultural hot spot, and beautiful natural scenery in the form of parks, river walks, and hundreds of iconic bridges. Whether you’re a local or a visitor, this picturesque city is bound to enchant you. Pittsburgh’s cultural scene isn’t just about museums and theatres, but also includes a variety of excellent dining options.

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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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Store-level Managers’ Step-by-Step Guide to Restaurant Inventory Management

Restaurant365

As a store-level manager, you always have a lot on your plate. You’re tracking deliveries, making the most of your food budget, and ensuring your staff is prepared to serve customers. However, in between all these tasks, it is critical to devote time and energy into accurate and consistent inventory management. Inventory management tracks what’s going in and out of your restaurant for a specific period, and what product is in your restaurant at any given time.

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MRM Franchise Feed: Wing Zone Revitalization and Real Food BK

Modern Restaurant Management

MRM's Franchise Feed features news on the restaurant franchise and MUFSO landscape. Wing Zone Refresh. Wing Zone is getting a new look, top photo. Eight months after the acquisition by Capriotti’s, Wing Zone is rolling out a brand refresh which features technology upgrades, a revamped menu, an energized restaurant design and experience, a new logo and other assets designed to further position the brand as one of the undisputed leaders in the chicken wing category. “We have been g

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The Guide To Email Marketing for Restaurants [Examples, Ideas]

7 Shifts

If you own a bar or restaurant, you need to identify several methods of getting new customers to stream in and, at the same time, retain the current ones. For many business owners, email marketing is the ideal solution to fostering relationships outside the restaurant. Most people would think that only big companies should use email marketing while the small ones should go for other restaurant marketing strategies.

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??Places to Eat in Albuquerque That Everyone Will Love

Restaurant Clicks

When you think of Albuquerque restaurants, one thing probably comes to mind: Hatch chilies. It’s true, the semi-spicy, often roasted, and utterly delicious green chilies are nearly synonymous with the city’s top food joints. Still, they’re not the only delicacy Albuquerque has to offer. Restaurants in Albuquerque are as diverse as the city’s population, featuring everything from blue corn enchiladas to bone-in ribeye steaks.

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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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Independent Property Developments, Big or Small, are Creative, Best In Class Food Precincts.

Future Food

West Melbourne Waterfront Precinct by Perri Projects. Independent Property Developments, Big or Small, are Creative, Best In Class Food Precincts. Future Food gets to work on large projects, and we love the city shaping scope of a big development. Yet some of the more interesting projects that we've been working on over the last 24-36 months have been those from private independent developers.

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Looking to Increase Traffic to Your Restaurant? Try Holograms

Modern Restaurant Management

There’s rarely been a more difficult time for restaurants than the past year. Combining a shortage of customers and employees as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic with the ongoing flux of health code restrictions, restaurants are struggling to drive traffic and relevance within respective customer bases. Put simply, now that America is finally able to dine-in, there’s a frenzy on the business end to net as many customers as possible — but it’s easier said than done.

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24 Facebook Marketing Ideas and Strategies for Restaurants

The Eat Restaurant

With over a billion active users on Facebook as of 2017, the social media giant is making itself one of the most attractive outlets for restaurant marketers. This is in part due to the fact that everyone needs to eat, and with the right Facebook marketing strategy your restaurant could be their destination of choice. But with so many of your competitors on the platform, how do you make sure yours gets a slice of the pie?

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The Most Fantastic Places to Eat Around Pittsburgh

Restaurant Clicks

Being one of the nation’s most affordable and industrialized cities to live in, you can count on finding some fantastic restaurants in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh has several international dining options. You can find places specializing in Italian dishes, Spanish dishes, and East Asian dishes, among others. No matter what you’re looking for, you’re bound to find something on every block, and each one has its own unique atmosphere.

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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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10 Restaurant Twitter Post Ideas to Reach More Customers

Restaurant Den

Social media is one of the greatest advertising tools for promoting any restaurant. Today, it’s practically mandatory to have a social media strategy to survive as a business. Twitter is currently one of the top social media platforms with over 192 million active users. For any restaurant, that’s a lot of potential customers and you […].

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Six Steps to Help Restaurants Prepare for Severe Storm Weather

Modern Restaurant Management

Hurricane Ida is just the most recent major storm to make landfall in the United States this hurricane season. Thousands of businesses and more than one million people were left without power and forced to deal with the lingering effects of standing flood waters. Restaurant owners can use these tips as they prepare for severe storm weather and deal with power outages, floods, pest problems and many other severe storm impacts.

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How to Add 'Book Now' button On Instagram (Hidden Booking Feature)

The Eat Restaurant

For many restaurants, Instagram has essentially become their main presence on social media. This is because, despite the sheer number of other social media sites geared towards acquiring a following online, Instagram does the best job of generating interest for restaurants.

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How Synergy Sync Uses the Restaurant Operating Cycle and the STAC Framework to Systemize Daily Restaurant Operations

Restaurant Technology Guys

This certification and operating platform offer a way to simplify your life and to become more effective in restaurant operations. The post How Synergy Sync Uses the Restaurant Operating Cycle and the STAC Framework to Systemize Daily Restaurant Operations appeared first on Restaurant Technology Guys.

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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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7 Things to Look for in a Restaurant Management System

Margin Edge

There are a lot of articles out there talking about what to look for in a restaurant management system (RMS), but nearly every article focuses on different software tools that fix individual restaurant problems instead of a comprehensive, all-in-one solution for holistic management. Specialization is a good thing, don’t get us wrong. But restaurants already have so many things on their plate, managing multiple systems that may or may not talk to each other seems like kind of a shitty solution.

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Additional EIDL Options Available for Small Businesses

Modern Restaurant Management

The White House and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) today announced an overhaul to the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, increasing the loan cap and expanding the ways small business restaurants can use the funds. The announced changes include: An increase in the loan cap amount to $2 million, from a current cap of $500,000.

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The Single Most Important Thing Restaurants Must Do on Facebook

The Eat Restaurant

Social media has always been a great way to reach potential diners at your restaurant and Facebook's latest feature takes that process one step further. Facebook now allows restaurant owners to directly take bookings from their page with a 'Book Now' call to action. The restaurants partnered with a reservation provider can now embed their online booking widget into the new call to action (CTA), allowing customers to book a table within a few clicks.

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Server Job Description Sample for Restaurant Hiring

Touch Bistro

Great service is essential to running a successful restaurant, which is why you need to become a pro at restaurant staffing and learn how to craft a solid server job description. In this guide to writing a restaurant server job description, we’ll cover: A basic overview of the server role A restaurant server job description sample A few key tips for hiring a star lineup of servers.

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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.