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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Restaurants Going Digital Require Technology That Always Works

Modern Restaurant Management

What’s new on the menu for today’s innovative restaurants? Internet of Things (IoT) technology. Thanks to the labor shortage and increased profit pressure, savvy restaurants are going digital to provide the best customer experience and to keep up with the hefty competition. What’s keeping restaurants humming: mobile point-of-sale (POS) units, ordering terminals, tabletop tablets, and tablets for the waitstaff.

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What is a Restaurant Inventory App?

Sculpture Hospitality

One of the most important steps for improving your restaurant’s profits is implementing an inventory management program. The problem is, managing food and beverage inventory at your restaurant can be time consuming, stressful, complex and can be rife with errors - especially when you use manual inventory tracking methods.

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Who has the worst staff turnover? Restaurant Employee Turnover by City and State + Retention Playbook

7 Shifts

Turnover in restaurants is as high as ever. Labor shortages, health crises, and general economic trends have made it a struggle — and restaurants need help. But we're at an inflection point in the restaurant industry. It's not enough to just pay more than the restaurant next door. The restaurants that prioritize employee retention above all will come out on top.

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Taking on Goliath: How Video Marketing Is Leveling the Playing Field for Independent Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

Find out how video content can turn customers into brand ambassadors by enabling them to share their experiences with prospective customers. For too long, independent restaurants have struggled to compete with major chains because of their limited time and money. Single-location restaurants face the same challenges confronting all small business owners.

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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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Creating a signature blend for your coffee shop

Perfect Daily Grind

In today’s competitive specialty coffee market, it’s important for coffee shops to stand out. One of the many ways they can do this is by roasting coffee in-store – creating a unique customer experience that also maximises coffee freshness. Coffee shops can also develop their own signature blends, which help to differentiate them from their competitors.

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47 Scaling Restaurants In Scandinavia To Keep An Eye On (Because They Are Awesome)

Apicbase

The hottest restaurant scene in Europe right now? Scandinavia. Yes, you heard right. You may not have noticed, but some brilliant restaurant chains and franchises are shaking up the dining culture of the Nordic countries, both with new concepts and by revamping old ones. The level of quality, service and innovation is high. These restaurants are scaling fast, and quite often venture far beyond their country of origin.

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Tips to Navigate a Perfect Storm That’s Threatening Our Food Supply

Modern Restaurant Management

We were ill-prepared for the COVID pandemic that devastated the food industry with supply chain disruptions, product and labor shortages, and soaring inflation. We simply didn’t see it coming, and we weren’t ready for the ongoing ramifications of this crisis. The biggest learning from COVID is that food businesses must be prepared for any crisis – and ensure their suppliers all along the supply chain are also prepared and resilient.

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How much of the final price of a cup of coffee do farmers receive?

Perfect Daily Grind

Over the past year or so, coffee prices have been steadily increasing. The first sign that prices would increase was a sudden frost which hit some of Brazil’s major coffee-producing regions in late July 2021. Since then, prices have consistently remained above the US $2 mark. However, despite the higher prices, some smallholder farmers are not receiving more money for their coffee, leaving them vulnerable.

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Biz Tip: Operations

Food Business

Maintaining equipment is like maintaining good staff. You can't avoid it, and you need to keep up with it! When you run a restaurant you are hopefully beyond the stage when you think you can do it all yourself. Maybe you are even beyond the belief that your staff should have monthly cleaning log that includes maintaining equipment. Like any good tool is remains good when you maintain it, and that may mean calling a HVAC company to set up a quarterly cleaning and maintainance plan; and a restaura

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How to improve customer experience in a restaurant in 10 steps

Open for Business

The best restaurants serve something more than flawless food: welcoming hospitality that makes every guest feel like a VIP. Regardless of how great the food is, people won’t return to a restaurant if the service stumbles. So the question of how to improve service in a restaurant is important. The challenge is that great service isn’t any one thing. To improve service, you must attend to the entire guest experience.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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Three Reasons Why Brand Adaptability Is More Important Than Ever

Modern Restaurant Management

The restaurant industry has been hit hard by the pandemic, but many businesses are beginning to bounce back. To recover, brands have evolved and made effective changes to meet the continuous challenges, making an impact at the corporate level while providing operators with the necessary tools to be successful. At Bojangles, it became apparent that old tactics were no longer enough, and we needed to change our approach.

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The evolution of digital printing in coffee packaging

Perfect Daily Grind

Over the past few years, coffee packaging has become more of a focus for roasters and consumers alike. With the increasing need to stand out from competitor brands on retail shelves, roasters are opting for different ways to produce high-quality packaging, such as digital printing. Classic printing methods for coffee packaging have been well established for many years.

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How Grocery Co-Ops Are Taking on Food Justice and Equity

EATER

Shutterstock. Building a successful co-op should also be “rooted in justice, equity, and a holistic view of the world” This story was originally published on Civil Eats. On a corner lot in the North End of Detroit, the the framing is underway for a Black-led, community-owned grocery cooperative, the first of its type in the city in recent times. Set to open in August 2023, the Detroit People’s Food Co-op will provide the neighborhood’s residents — who are predominantly low- and middle-income Afr

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How To Calculate and Reduce Idle Time in Your Business

Sling

Looking for a way to boost productivity and increase revenue in your business? Of course you are. Who isn’t? But how can you reach those goals without making major changes and spending lots of your hard-earned capital? Focus on reducing idle time within the workflow. At first glance, idle time may not seem like it’s having a large impact on your bottom line, but even a few minutes here and there can quickly add up over the course of a year and cost your business hundreds, if not thousands, of do

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.

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Lighting Up the Denver Restaurant Scene

Modern Restaurant Management

Best known for its authentic drinks, creative tacos and an urban industrial vibe, Federales, a lofty, open-air tequila and taco establishment, offers an energetic atmosphere for restaurant and bar patrons alike. Concepted by college friends and founding members of Four Corners Restaurant Group—Andy Gloor and Matt Menna—the restaurant/bar traces its roots to Chicago, where the first Federales was opened in 2016 in Chicago’s West Loop.

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Coffee News Recap, 23 Sep: Kenya reports 39% year-on-year increase in coffee earnings, on-the-go coffee consumption making a comeback & 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, 19 Sep. Nairobi Coffee Exchange reports 39% year-on-year increase in coffee earnings. Kenya’s national coffee auction platform says the country sold 52.58% more 60kg bags of coffee in the 11 months to August 2022, representing an increase in coffee earnings of US $81 million.

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We’re Always Falling for Fake Food Stunts

EATER

A person making “NyQuil chicken” | Screenshot via Know Your TikTok/YouTube. NyQuil chicken proves one of our worst collective online tendencies Last week, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning : Don’t cook your chicken in NyQuil. This needed to be said, according to the FDA, because of a “recent social media video challenge,” presumably linked to TikTok.

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The Ultimate Guide to the Coffee Shop Industry?

Aaron Allen & Associates

The global coffee industry has a total addressable market of more than $400 billion (annual sales). Of that, about $8 in every $10 are spent in Coffee Away From Home (coffee shops, kiosks, vending machines, etc.) The United States coffee industry reaches $85 billion in annual sales — 20% of the global coffee market. The coffee shop industry is the third largest restaurant category in the U.S., with 11% of sales among the largest 200 chains and growing significantly faster than the two leading ca

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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

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Top Cocktail and Wine Trends

Modern Restaurant Management

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits unveiled the results of its 2022 Liquid Insights Tour , a coast-to-coast educational initiative designed to explore and identify the latest trends in cocktails and wine. The tour kicked off in Houston in February, and included stops in Kansas City, New York, Las Vegas, Chicago and Los Angeles. Over the course of 111 days, Brian Masilionis, Director, On-Premise Commercial Strategy & National Accounts for Southern Glazer’s, led a team of its indus

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Understanding roast curves on modern coffee roasters

Perfect Daily Grind

As technological change becomes more and more frequent in the coffee industry, we are seeing more roasters invest in modern equipment, including machines which can use advanced roasting software. Although these modern machines certainly have their benefits, transitioning away from traditional models requires extensive planning, especially when it comes to translating or redeveloping roast curves.

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What’s the Point of Starbucks Now?

EATER

Jenn Moreno/VIEWpress. Starbucks is officially no different from any other fast-food chain After years of trying to convince people that it was a welcoming “third place” for gathering or working remotely, Starbucks is “evolving” away from that experiment and is leaning hard into operating just like any other fast-food restaurant. This week, a viral TikTok video filmed by a Starbucks barista alleged that the chain was getting rid of its power outlets, once touted as a way to attract work-from-hom

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Monteabellon Wines of Ribera Del Duero

A Wine Story

Monteabellon Wines. Delightful tasting of Monteabellon wine from Ribera del Duero today, guided by the family winery’s export manager Liola Iruzububieta. The setting for the tasting was the highly regarded Spanish restaurant Boqueria. Ribera del Duero has earned an excellent reputation for its wines made from the Tempranillo grape. The family behind Monteabellon initially gained fame with the high-quality grapes from their high-altitude vineyards.

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Unlock Restaurant Success: Mastering 7 Vital Employment Laws

As a restaurant leader, your plate is full with responsibilities, from staff management to serving up delicious dishes. But amidst the hustle, there's a crucial area you can't afford to overlook – employment laws. In this comprehensive eBook, we'll unveil the seven essential employment laws every restaurant leader must master. We'll break down the intricacies of each law, showing you how it directly impacts your business.

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11 Ways to Find The Best Restaurants and Places to Eat in 2022

Harbor Touch

If you’re anything like me, you love to eat out and you don’t want to get stuck in a rut and keep eating at the same places all the time. But sometimes it can be hard to find the best new restaurants to try. Either way, it can still be fun to venture out and try new restaurants locally or when traveling. So, if you’re looking for the best restaurants and places to eat nearby, here’s a top 11 list of how to find them: 1.

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How Time and Attendance Software Benefits Businesses

Bizimply

Are you still manually tracking Time and attendance of your staff? This can lead to error and overspend on labour costs. The post How Time and Attendance Software Benefits Businesses appeared first on Bizimply.

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How Much NBA Legend Dwyane Wade Thinks You Should Spend on a Nice Bottle of Wine

EATER

Santiago Mejia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images. It’s probably less than you think When most people think of NBA veteran Dwyane Wade, viniculture probably isn’t at the top of the list of things that come to mind. And sure, he’s a basketball legend with three NBA championship rings and countless other accolades, but well before he retired from the game in 2019, Wade’s been hard at work establishing his own presence in the world of wine.

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Improve your QSR VOC scores in 4 steps

Rocket Fuel

We all know that a positive guest experience is crucial to a restaurant’s success—and it also leads to better voice of customer results! Did you know when customers are strongly satisfied, they are four times more likely to recommend your restaurant to friends, family, or colleagues? Fortunately, improving your voice of customer (VOC) scores doesn’t mean reinventing the wheel or creating a flashy new customer experience program.

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.

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You could get paid $50,000 to move to Iceland and enjoy life

The Salt

The Icelandic yogurt company Siggi wants someone to run the business' social media channels and enjoy the simple life.

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The Ultimate Guide to the Coffee Shop Industry?

Aaron Allen & Associates

The global coffee industry has a total addressable market of more than $400 billion (annual sales). Of that, about $8 in every $10 are spent in Coffee Away From Home (coffee shops, kiosks, vending machines, etc.) The United States coffee industry reaches $85 billion in annual sales — 20% of the global coffee market. The coffee shop industry is the third largest restaurant category in the U.S., with 11% of sales among the largest 200 chains and growing significantly faster than the two leading ca

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A Guide to Lay’s Chinese Potato Chips

EATER

Michelle Min. From Pickled Fish to Italian Red Meat, Lay’s makes a wide range of chips for its customers in China Once upon a time, I adored Lay’s barbecue flavor potato chips so much that I could happily finish a bag by myself in one go. My mother soon became so irritated with her otherwise perfect daughter that she banished them from our home, so I’d pester my grandparents into keeping bags on hand for our weekly visits.

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What makes SLAY Coffee a unique coffee experience – An interview with Chaitanya Chitta 

The Restaurant Times

They say necessity is the mother of invention. And so it happens, our latest guest on F&B talks, Chaitanya Chitta, co-founder of SLAY Coffee, took a personal ache and turned it into a brand loved by people. . Chaitanya moved back to Bangalore after a stint in New York, along with his wife, Lakshmi Dasaka. One of the things they missed the most upon their return was the coffee experience in the USA. .

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DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

On August 30, 2023, the DOL unveiled a proposed overtime rule that would raise the weekly salary threshold under the Federal Labor Standards Act. Paycor is closely monitoring the proposal and will provide updates as new information becomes available.