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What Is Bar Inventory Software?

Sculpture Hospitality

Bar inventory is managing, counting and tracking liquor stock at your bar or restaurant. Taking inventory counts, and ongoing inventory management, can help you gain insight into the sales trends of different beverages so you can ensure that you always have enough stock on hand.

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How To Do Restaurant Week the Right Way

Modern Restaurant Management

As Restaurant Week is returning across the country, and with that also comes fresh opportunity as diners are returning to restaurants with excitement and new expectations. The event celebrates another year of connecting hungry guests with discounted meals at restaurants all over the country, and 2022 is shaping up to be a different experience than in years past.

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4 Hacks To Get More Restaurant Reviews

Gourmet Marketing

Third-party endorsements can go a long way in business.

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KNIVES – THE CHEF’S WITNESS TOOLS

Culinary Cues

It’s the start of another day in the kitchen. Seven in the morning and aside from the baker and breakfast cook, I am alone with clip board in hand and my roll bag of knives placed strategically at a workstation. I arrived a half hour earlier, grabbed a cup of coffee with a splash of milk, removed my starched chef coat and apron from its home in my office, slide my arms into the sleeves feeling the slight resistance from the serious starched press, folded the first layer back, tied on an apron, a

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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 Eater Guide to Alaska

EATER

It’s wildly delicious Food in Alaska has a certain magic to it. If it comes from nature — like blueberries, herring eggs, moose meat, or salmon — it’s connected to the vast, wild place. If it comes from elsewhere, as almost all store-bought food does, it has novelty and, often, mysterious origins. If it’s prepared following a method from a homeland thousands of miles away, it’s full of longing and nostalgia.

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How Does a Single-Location Independent Operator Restaurant Compete with Chain Franchises?

Modern Restaurant Management

Even in the best of times, it’s mostly been an uphill battle for single location restaurants to compete with chain franchises. Differences in manpower, brand recognition, technology and marketing budgets have all presented significant challenges for single location restaurants to compete for market share. With the onset of the pandemic, the restaurant industry cratered after experiencing massive labor shortages and business loss, compounding the existing challenges.

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AN EVEN BIGGER THREAT TO RESTAURANT SURVIVAL

Culinary Cues

Sorry, there isn’t a lot of good news for restaurants and chefs in recent years-except up to this point customer demand for the experience is rising. We are all aware of the challenge with the workforce – finding and retaining people to do the job, and we are still feeling the pains from Covid shutdowns and the fear and anxiety that went with it. But not enough attention is being given to the issues surrounding the supply chain and the lack of real solutions.

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The Return of the Hot Table

EATER

Lucia Pham /Eater. Between fully booked restaurants and subscription models for reservations, the market for must-have reservations is tougher than ever “Every single restaurant we have has more seating than it has ever had — and they’re just booked,” says Vicki Freeman, a partner at New York City’s Bowery Group , which includes the restaurants Cookshop, Vic’s, Rosie’s, Shuka, and Shukette.

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How to Avoid Getting Ghosted at Interviews

Modern Restaurant Management

In today’s market, it seems that just about every restaurant is hiring. Job candidates have their choice of any number of open positions – and the most qualified applicants get snapped up fast. When they land a job, candidates often don’t contact the other companies where they have applied. Why? Sometimes they’ve lost track of where they have applied.

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Kevin, the RestaurantGURU

Sante

An AI that can help you with your restaurant business.

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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 to Include in a Job Offer Letter, Plus Sample Template

Sling

Found the perfect candidate to fill the vacancy on your team? Send them a job offer letter and start the onboarding process off right. If you’re unsure what to include in such correspondence, we’re here to help. In this article, we discuss the components of an effective job offer letter and provide a template to get you started. Table of contents. What is a job offer letter?

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Meet Alaska’s Last Milkman

EATER

From freezing temps to high costs, running a dairy in rural Alaska seems nearly impossible. Scott Plagerman says it’s worth it. Two hours southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, on a farm carved out of the wilderness, most days you can find Scott Plagerman, Alaska’s last commercial dairyman, watching his milking robot hum away. A bubble gum pink udder, sprayed clean, moves into a cluster of laser-guided suction cylinders.

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My One Piece of Advice For The Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

As I sat down to write this article, all I could think about was how the foodservice industry is so vital to our daily lives. When we don’t want to cook, we call our favorite restaurant. When we want to celebrate our wins, we gather at our favorite restaurant. When we want comfort in tough times, we order from our favorite restaurant. Some of our best memories include our favorite restaurants.

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Master Pizza Restaurant Inventory Management with These 5 Tools

Lavu

A customer would be disappointed to order a slice of pepperoni pizza and receive a slice of plain because the pizzeria was out of their … Master Pizza Restaurant Inventory Management with These 5 Tools Read More ». The post Master Pizza Restaurant Inventory Management with These 5 Tools appeared first on iPad Point of Sale System for Restaurants, Bars & More.

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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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An Easy Guide to Optimize Instagram Hashtags to Promote Your Restaurant

The Rail

By Maria Fox, Contributor Instagram is an amazing marketing platform for businesses of all types and sizes and restaurants are no exception. Today, restaurant and food businesses are making the most of Instagram to attract more and more guests, maximize engagement, and build a loyal customer base. When it comes to promoting your business and growing your following, having a strong Instagram presence is the key.

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Tea and Piroshki at Alaska’s Best Tourist Trap

EATER

The tea at Samovar cafe is compiled of locally picked raspberry and fireweed leaves. A breakaway from the Russian Orthodox Church, the Old Believer community has held strong in Alaska for over 50 years — including at Nina Fefelov’s Samovar Cafe No inch is spared inside Samovar Cafe in Nikolaevsk, Alaska. Save for the U-shaped bar top and the six seats that surround it, almost every other surface is covered with Soviet memorabilia or tchotchkes, including decorative plates, posters, photographs,

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Creating Opportunities for Ukrainian Refugees

Modern Restaurant Management

The team at Manifesto Market wanted to do something to support Ukrainian refugees by providing job opportunities. They began an initiative to support the opening of a restaurant by a Ukrainian chef or entrepreneur and offered space in Manifesto And?l for the first Ukrainian restaurant, which opened in three months time. Manifesto's investment is estimated at $40,000, including a six-month free lease and initial fit-out.

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Coffee News Recap, 15 Jul: Some 2023 WCC events to take place in Taipei, revenue increases predicted for Brazilian roasters & 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, 11 Jul. Bolivian Coffee Alliance and ANAPCAFE to host Bolivian Coffee Weeks event. The festival, which will be held from 18 to 31 July in Santa Cruz, will include several SCA Coffee Skills workshops. The event will also host the 2022 Bolivian Brewers Cup, Cup Tasters, and Latte Art Championships.

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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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Want to Improve Productivity? Make Sure Your Upgraded POS System Has These 7 Features

Restaurant Engine

You can improve productivity with the right POS system. You know that a point-of-sale system (POS) is great for your customers, enabling them to have a bit more control when ordering or paying for their meals. Did you know, though, that a POS system is great for managing your business and improving your efficiency? And do you want to improve your productivity?

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How I Got My Job: Running NYC’s Hottest Indian Restaurants and Winning a James Beard Award

EATER

With home cooking at Adda, hotspot Dhamaka, spicy fried chicken at Rowdy Rooster, and many more restaurants, chef Chintan Pandya has blanketed New York with great Indian food Chintan Pandya is a champion of regional Indian cuisine, showcasing South Asian flavors at his mini empire of New York restaurants — but he wasn’t always dedicated to the cooking of his homeland.

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The Importance of Staying Up-to-Date on Liquor Laws and Insurance Coverage 

Modern Restaurant Management

The climate of the hospitality industry is forever changing. Based on completely unpredictable occurrences such as the COVID pandemic and societal realities such as violence at bars and restaurants, hospitality establishment owners have a lot to consider when it comes to their coverage. The most important thing new owners should know about insurance coverage is that it’s a vital part of running their business.

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84: EAT MORE CHAUNCEYS

Food Business

Chef Mel aka Chef Chauncey is thee creative chef you wish you knew! She has explored many avenues in the culinary world both traditional and non-traditional. By nature Chef Mel prefes the thrills and challenges of the roads less travelled! She believes that "food is a universal language" and through food She strives to create opportunities for cultures to connect and learn from one another.

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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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Restaurant Consumer Trends Post-Pandemic

Black Box Intelligence

What are Restaurant Consumer Trends? Consumer trends are the overarching shared sentiments expressed by restaurant consumers. Consumer trends are often uncovered through gathering, aggregating, and continuously tracking restaurant customer feedback. . BBI can and does track restaurant customer feedback across various platforms with our guest intelligence tool.

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In Remote Alaska, Meal Planning Is Everything

EATER

In a town where most ingredients need to be grown or painstakingly shipped in via bush plane, everyone’s invested in eating well In March 2020, when pandemic stay-at-home orders had just started and everyone was figuring out how to get groceries and purchase in bulk for the next several weeks, I already had a chest freezer full of food and a pantry stocked with months’ worth of meals at my home in Fairbanks, Alaska.

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How to Make More Money with Dessert Sales

Ken Burgin

The lack of dessert sales in most restaurants and cafes is positively unAustralian! Considering how profitable they can be, this needs to be fixed immediately – it’s usually the result of unattractive appearance, poor sales skills, the wrong menu placement, or prices that are too high relative to main course items. Desserts can create a strong first and last impression, and there’s money to be made when you mix sugar, air and water with flavour!

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What Is The Importance Of Databases In The Hospitality Industry?

Harbor Touch

Databases play a critical role in the hospitality industry, providing organizations with a way to store and access large amounts of customer data. They can track bookings, reservations, and guest information and help manage inventory and pricing. In addition, databases can also provide insights into customer trends and behaviors. Let’s take a closer look at what exactly they can do.

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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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Bizimply Sponsors the Catey Awards

Bizimply

Last week, five members of the Bizimply team jetted off to the Grosvenor Hotel in London for a lavish night to celebrate the hospitality industry. The post Bizimply Sponsors the Catey Awards appeared first on Bizimply.

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For Restaurant Workers Who Have Experienced Abuse, Support Groups Can Help

EATER

Victor Bizar Gómez /Eater. “You are not powerless, you have choices and that’s enough: to seek support.” In 2018, chef Zia Sheikh was struggling with burnout and addiction. He wound up getting fired from his job, another victim of the restaurant industry’s pressure and churn, and he says he sought out therapy as a result. Finding free counseling directly led to someone helping him get Medicaid, he says, and now, he sees losing his restaurant job as a blessing in disguise.

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Using Restaurant Negatives to Create Positive Improvement

Ken Burgin

A little negativity can sometimes be useful – tapping into the very human tendency to complain can yield a whole range of useful material when teaching customer service. A recent workshop I ran on ‘quality service’ was going nowhere fast: a group of strangers, a cold room and first topic in the morning. So I decided to pop the cork and ask each table to come up with their 10 pet hates when visiting a restaurant or café.

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Tips on Preventing Water Damage at Your Restaurant

Modern Restaurant Management

Discovering water damage at your business can be a huge pain. It can result in structural damage, mold, expensive repairs, and loss of revenue. This is a concern in Texas where “nearly every major city is vulnerable to Gulf Coast hurricanes or sits in “Flash Flood Alley”, one of the most flash flood prone areas in the nation,” according to FEMA.

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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.