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How to Choose the Right Partnerships to Grow Your Brand and Fill Seats. Collaborations can be powerful, but only when theyre aligned with your brand, values, and audience. The right partnership can help you boost sales, grow brand awareness, introduce new products, or even break into a new market, as discussed in TouchBistro. Collaboration is a crucial tool for restaurants looking to expand their impact without losing authenticity.
By Angela Marshall, Contributor Reopening a restaurant in a new location can be both exciting and overwhelming. Whether upgrading to a bigger space, aiming for a better neighborhood, or rebranding your culinary identity, the process requires more than just packing boxes and creating a new sign. Reopening in a new location is a major milestone that demands strategic planning, emotional investment, and a deep understanding of what makes restaurants thrive.
The Best Practice Awards 2025 Celebrating the Best Restaurant Brands in the Industry Every year, the coveted BBI Best Practices Awards (BPAs) celebrate the best performers in the restaurant industry. With a history of more than 20 years recognizing the greatest brands, they have become a coveted prize and are routinely mentioned in earnings calls and board calls, and have become a cause for significant internal celebration.
Key Trends How Independent Restaurant Operators Are Winning in 2025 Top tech trends from the 2025 Restaurant Technology Outlook Reportand how to take action If youre an independent restaurant operator, the question isnt if you should upgrade your technologyits how fast. The 2025 Restaurant Technology Outlook Report makes one thing clear: the restaurants growing fastest are using streamlined, all-in-one done-for-you platforms to cut complexity, drive revenue, and reclaim their time.
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.
Discover essential strategies for maintaining safe street food operations through proper hygiene, temperature control, and contamination prevention. Learn how these practices protect customer health while helping you build a reputable, sustainable street food business that exceeds regulatory standards.
Did you know that 60% of restaurants fail within their first year and 80% close within five years? Pretty sobering, right? While exceptional food and service are crucial, We've found that effective restaurant management plays an even bigger role in long-term success.
The New World screwworm is endemic in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean and its northward spread into Mexico has alarmed U.S. officials. It can kill a full-grown cow in one to two weeks.
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The New World screwworm is endemic in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean and its northward spread into Mexico has alarmed U.S. officials. It can kill a full-grown cow in one to two weeks.
Welcome back to our series on driving restaurant profitability through smarter operations. In previous posts, we covered the importance of shifting focus to back-of-house (BOH) operations , controlling labor costs, and optimizing operations execution. Now, we turn our focus to one of the most impactfuland often mismanagedareas of a restaurants finances: inventory and food costs.
For generations excellent meant complicated, intense, all-consuming, and sacrifice. Kitchens of great renown are staffed with dozens of talented young cooks, some even there as a stagiere working just to learn and build their resumes. Meticulously clean kitchens; pristine, starched chef whites; the very best equipment and ingredients from around the world.
Gen Z isn’t just eating out; they’re building relationships with brands that reflect who they are. Trend-driven yet deeply value-conscious, they want personalized nutrition, ethical sourcing, and innovative packaging. Gen Z is redefining dining, seeing your restaurant as an extension of their identity. Michael Parlapiano, Managing Director of The Culinary Edge, shares with Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine how restaurants and food brands can adapt to these generations’
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.
The raw bar is getting pricier. | Brooke Olsen One dollar oysters are disappearing. Heres why. Whether served raw on the half-shell, chargrilled, or Rockefeller style, theres no denying the briny appeal of a perfect fresh oyster. Over the past few decades, more and more diners have heard the gospel of great oysters and, as a result, demand for the bivalves has skyrocketed in recent years.
Understanding what customers order, when they order, and how often is an untapped goldmine of information for restaurant operators. Using that data can help you answer questions like: Are we pricing our bestsellers too low or overpricing items customers arent buying? Which customers are coming back again and again, and what keeps them loyal? What do repeat orders say about our customer preferences?
As in the case with many professions, there is a process, sometimes built around tradition and often, proven effective over time. This process is methodically built on results and, as such, is acknowledged by those professions as being effective. The process is used in professional sports, in the military, in law enforcement, public speaking, writing, painting, carpentry, and dozens of others.
The restaurant industry's competitive landscape for mealtime dollars is changing fast, and it's no longer brand against brand. Increasingly, grocery and convenience stores are stealing share by offering quick, affordable, and increasingly high-quality meal options. In Revenue Management Solutions' (RMS) recent consumer report, Check, Please or Check Out , 24 percent of surveyed diners say they buy meals from grocery stores more frequently than a year ago.
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.
Wonho Frank Lee Ryan Bailey of Kato in LA says more square footage has actually helped operations A version of this post originally appeared on May 14, 2025, in Eater and Punchs newsletter Pre Shift , a biweekly newsletter for the industry pro that sources first-person accounts from the bar and restaurant world. This send is the second of a four-part series on restaurant growth, presented by Square.
A great dining experience starts long before someone walks through your door. Nearly every customer journey begins with a search on Google, then a scroll through several restaurant websites before something catches their eye. If your site is clunky, hard to navigate, or missing basic features like a prominent online ordering button, your potential customer will bounce because diners have little to no tolerance for friction or confusion when theyre looking for food. 62% of diners have been discou
Restaurants, hotels,and otherhospitalityindustry businesses continue to battle a tight labor market. Toattractnot only enough employees butalsoengaged and productive ones, itsimportantto offer benefits thatmeet them where they are. While itmayoften be overwhelming to figure out where to start, there are severaltenets of an impactful benefits program thatcanshow employees thatyou, their employer,supportthemas individualsboth at work and at home.
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.
A chef at Vezir Han prepares slow-cooked lamb and rice. For 13 years, displaced Syrians have filled Istanbul with kebabs, shawarma, and falafel. But after the fall of the Assad government, the refugee community and the Turkish city are transforming. Aziz Habesh knows his way around kibbeh. Sitting in Vezir Han , in the shadow of Istanbuls Fatih Mosque, the maitre d begins to list the types on offer at the Syrian restaurant.
Managing payroll in a fast-paced restaurant environment isnt just about cutting checksits about accuracy, compliance, and keeping your team satisfied. Yet, restaurant payroll management often comes with challenges like time tracking errors, tax issues, and inconsistent scheduling. These problems can lead to employee dissatisfaction and financial penalties if left unaddressed.
The fast-casual chain is moving from paper chits to an AI-powered digital system that will cut service times in half. It's in 400 units now and will be rolled out systemwide by the end of the year.
Someone sent me a sticker the other day over text, and I somehow saved it to my phone. I didn’t want this sticker popping up in my emoji menu every time I scrolled through, but no matter what I tried, I couldn’t get rid of it. So, I texted a friend who’s about 20 years younger than me: "Please help your Gen X friend get rid of this sticker." She immediately sent me a screen recording of her phone and replied: "Zero offense to you at all, but I do this for my mom som
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.
The Neng Jr.s team reflects on recovery. | Mike Belleme Local chefs rely on resourcefulness and community in the wake of disaster. Since opening in Asheville, North Carolina, in 2022, Neng Jr.s has experienced an upward trajectory that would be the envy of any restaurant. Led by business and life partners Silver and Cherry Iocovozzi, the Filipinx restaurant has garnered many accolades: It was a 2023 James Beard finalist for Best New Restaurant, one of Bon Appetit s 2023 Best New Restaurants, and
In a recently featured episode of the Restaurant Technology Guys podcast, Jeremy Julian sat down with Angelo Esposito, the innovative mind behind Whisk AI, to delve into the conception and evolution of Whisk, a game-changing solution for restaurant inventory management.
In today’s fast-paced dining world, guest satisfaction goes beyond just great food—it’s about delivering a seamless experience. When guest expectations are sky-high and every table turn counts, how quickly a team responds – both to guests and to each other – can significantly shape the dining experience. Internal communication, especially between front- and back-of-house staff, is one of the most overlooked drivers of operational efficiency and l asting loyalty.
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.
Eater Staff Feeling overwhelmed by tariff talk? Here are the things that are the most likely to get spensive in the coming months, from chocolate to toasters In todays edition of money is not real, but has real consequences, were reflecting on tariffs I know, I know and, specifically, how they will likely drive up the prices of goods that are not made in the United States and, to quote The Economist , cause economic havoc.
When you're running over 180 dining locations across theme parks, dinner shows, and aquariumseach with their own unique menus, vendors, and seasonal demandskeeping tabs on inventory and food costs can feel like a roller coaster ride. That was the reality for Herschend Family Entertainment, the worlds largest family-owned themed attraction company and home to Dollywood, until they teamed up with Crunchtime.
The loss of a loved one can be a turning point, a moment that either breaks or builds a person. For Cody Pepper, CEO of Fast Fresh Brands, iit led him on a mission to make healthy eating accessible to everyone. Pepper's personal journey began with the loss of his father to cancer, a diagnosis linked to years of poor dietary habits. This experience ignited a fire in him, leading him to leave a successful career in nonprofit and consulting to helm Fast Fresh, parent company of Bee Healthy Cafe
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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