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4 Ways Restaurants Can Reduce Labor Costs Without Cutting Shifts

Crunchtime

Follow these four labor management strategies to help your restaurant save on labor costs, without compromising quality or guest experience across stores.

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5 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Restaurant Managers

Veloce POS Blog

The recipe for success in the restaurant industry isn't just about a great menu; it also includes a good grasp of key performance indicators (KPIs) according to your business objectives. By identifying and tracking the right indicators, you empower yourself to make informed business decisions, leading to more effective management and increased profitability.

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What happens when promos don’t work as expected

Restaurant Business

Restaurant Rewind: If the offer proves more or less enticing than anticipated, chaos can follow. Here are some prime examples from the industry’s past.

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MRM EXCLUSIVE: Marketing Your Virtual Restaurant – Tips for Success

Modern Restaurant Management

The restaurant industry is changing quickly, and technology plays a big role. This means that restaurants and franchises must focus on efficiency and lean operations. One way to do this is to open a virtual restaurant. A virtual restaurant is a restaurant that doesn't have a physical location. It only exists online; customers can order food through a delivery app.

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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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Biting the Hand that Feeds: Processing Fees That Prey on Merchants

Modern Restaurant Management

As point-of-sale (POS) platforms exit the startup stage and developers begin looking for ways to generate increased revenue, many are turning toward processing fees for using their software. These processing fees go all the way up to.99 cents, and are added to orders that exceed a minimum cost. For restaurateurs and businesses across the nation, these fees come as a shock – and an unwelcome one at that.

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FINDING YOUR CULINARY VOICE

Culinary Cues

What culinary language do you speak? Are you fluent? Do you use the language properly? Do you show your place of origin through the language you speak? Do you feel connected to your language or is your language dictated by environment? These are serious questions whether talking about your heritage and situational spoken language or if you are expressing language through the plate of food you slid into the kitchen pass.

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A pair of new apps wants to eliminate bad restaurant reviews

Restaurant Business

Atmosfy and Recs encourage personalized recommendations rather than anonymous star ratings in a direct challenge to review sites like Yelp.

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What the results of Tuesday's elections could mean for restaurants

Restaurant Business

Working Lunch: Among the industry's concerns should be Democrats' embrace of abortion rights as their party's issue. The importance of the matter to voters could usher more anti-business progressives into office.

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Protected: Personalised onboarding: How it can help your hospitality and retail business? 

Bizimply

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: <b>Personalised onboarding: </b> How it can help your hospitality and retail business? appeared first on Bizimply.

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What the Joint Employer Rule Will Mean for Franchise Restaurants

Modern Restaurant Management

"Scott, just to clarify, WE are not the employer. The franchisees are. Please make sure everyone understands that and don’t suggest otherwise." I give a lot of keynote presentations to restaurant brands, and most of them are franchises. These brands promise to provide franchisees with the complete playbook for business success. They give them the tools.

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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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You Definitely Can’t Fly With Gravy in Your Carry-On

EATER

Alyssa Nassner But green bean casserole is fine. These are the rules of flying with a Thanksgiving feast. Now that Thanksgiving is just a week away, many people across the country are already planning their turkey day spread. That’s especially true for the more than 55 million Americans who are gearing up to travel to visit family with food in tow. In addition to figuring out how to make your Thanksgiving food fit into a suitcase and keep it at food-safe temperatures in transit, plenty of folks

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Why Burger King struggled, according to Patrick Doyle

Restaurant Business

The executive chairman of the chain’s parent company Restaurant Brands International said operators had too much risk, particularly on the balance sheet.

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The Complete Guide to Increase Your Restaurant Profit Margins

Lavu

Improving your restaurant profit and profit margins are critical factors that directly impact the financial health and overall success of your restaurant. It’s not just about numbers; it’s about understanding the pulse of your business. By staying on top of profit margins, you can make informed decisions about pricing, portion sizes, and operational costs, thereby improving your profit margins.

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Restaurants and Bars Should Consider Text Message Surveys for Gathering Customer Feedback

Modern Restaurant Management

In the competitive restaurant and bar industry, customer feedback is vital for success. With the prevalence of online reviews, it's crucial to actively seek and utilize feedback. Text message surveys offer a convenient and real-time method to gather this valuable input, and in this guide, we'll explore their importance and implementation for improved operations.

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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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The Only Food Gift Guide You Need

EATER

Lille Allen/Eater The best gifts you can eat, from flavored finishing salts to a big ol’ box of snacks Food is the perfect gift. And I’m not talking about a homemade lasagna or dip you bring to the potluck. I’m talking about the fancy, almost-ridiculous stuff you’d never buy for your own pantry, but would love to receive from someone else. Fussy jams, expensive salt, the chocolate that’s four times the price of a Hershey’s bar at the checkout aisle.

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Tijuana Flats founder launches what he hopes will be the Raising Cane's of Tex-Mex

Restaurant Business

Brian Wheeler and son Jake Wheeler debuted the fast-casual Big Taco, with a simplified menu and an emphasis on service.

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16 Thanksgiving Drink Recipes (Your Customers Will Fall For)

Buzztime Business

Food usually takes the spotlight on Thanksgiving. But in the spirit of this epic autumn meal, we think you should offer a few of these 16 show-stopping Thanksgiving drinks, too. We’re talking fresh garnishes, house-made syrups, and fall flavors like apple, cinnamon, and pumpkin spice (of course). So, dig in…and feel free to come back for seconds! Seasonal Favorites 1.

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Invest in Employees with Affordable Health Care

Modern Restaurant Management

Lack of health insurance isn’t considered one of the major reasons the hospitality industry has, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, a churn rate north of 70 percent. A recent survey found that low pay, lack of recognition and bad management are three of the major variables. But let’s dig a little deeper into “lack of recognition.” To me, that says employees aren’t feeling valued by the owners and managers of their restaurants.

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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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How Heritage Steel Makes Stainless Steel Pots

EATER

To create the Eater x Heritage Steel cookware line, workers at its Tennessee factory use machines from the 1940s Stainless steel pans are the preferred choice for professional chefs and are becoming increasingly popular with home cooks. Heritage Steel — which Eater recently partnered with to create the Eater x Heritage Steel cookware line — creates its high-quality wares at its Clarksville, Tennessee factory.

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Subway and Starbucks oust their Brazilian operator

Restaurant Business

SouthRock Capital, a major food and beverage operator in the country, had its master franchise agreement with Subway terminated after less than a year and lost its license to operate Starbucks.

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What We Learned Behind the Counter at Jersey Mike’s

Crunchtime

At Crunchtime, we hold ourselves accountable to better position every multi-unit restaurant for success. Many Crunchtime employees have restaurant and foodservice industry experience, which fosters incredible empathy for our customers. Having worked in similar roles allows our team to better understand and relate to our customers' needs. But, this time, we decided to take it a step further.

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How Consumers Engage with QSRs

Modern Restaurant Management

A return to work in offices and higher grocery prices due to continued inflation pressures are among the factors leading to nearly one in four U.S. households eating out or ordering food more frequently, according to a TransUnion report that details consumer attitudes and behaviors when engaging with QSRs. Heading into the end of 2023, two-thirds of consumer households (64 percent) planned to spend at the same levels with restaurants as they did over the second and third quarters of the year.

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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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A Look Back at 10 Years of Punch

EATER

Punch is an award-winning media brand dedicated to drinks and drinking culture.

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Inflation eases, but not at fast-food restaurants

Restaurant Business

Limited-service menu prices rose 6.2% over the past year, according to new federal data, and continue to rise at a rate much faster than overall inflation.

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Crunchtime's First-Ever Ops Excellence Awards—Meet the Finalists and See Who Won!

Crunchtime

We believe that teams who support operations are the backbone of any successful restaurant organization and deserve to be recognized for raising the bar in the industry—which is why we’re honoring excellence in restaurant operations. As part of our first-ever Ops Excellence Awards, we’re celebrating customers who have harnessed the power of our solutions to achieve unparalleled operational excellence.

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Seven Tips to Help Prevent Pipe Bursting this Winter

Modern Restaurant Management

Many parts of the country are no stranger to arctic air masses this time of year. This type of weather system brings both bitter cold and wind chills that create dangerous conditions for those in its path, affecting not only people, roads, and vehicles, but building infrastructure, too. Frozen pipes can be a concern in buildings during the cold months, which, if left unaddressed, can burst and cause further structural damage.

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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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Discover the Digital Strategy Behind the UK’s Fastest-Growing Dessert Restaurant Franchise — Interview with Chris Conaghan of Heavenly Desserts

Apicbase

At the forefront of the UK’s culinary scene, Heavenly Desserts shines as a beacon of innovation. Founded in Derby, England, in 2008, this restaurant franchise skilfully navigates the challenge of blending traditional hospitality with a cutting-edge digital strategy. Heavenly Desserts’ digital-first approach has significantly boosted operational efficiency and enhanced customer experiences, propelling them to become the UK’s fastest-growing dessert restaurant franchise.

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POS provider Qu lands investment from Danny Meyer’s Enlightened Hospitality

Restaurant Business

Qu’s cloud-based system is designed to untangle the tech stack for limited-service chains. Meyer believes it could become a “big player.

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Streamlining Your Restaurant’s In-House Delivery with OneDine’s White-Label Service

OneDine

As the restaurant industry evolves, delivery has become a staple in just about every US household. While third-party delivery applications are widely used, in-house delivery has become a crucial component of business operations. Offering delivery in-house not only boosts revenue & profit retention but also caters to customers’ growing demand for convenience & allows to more accurately manage the guest experience.

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How to Wield Restaurant Food Costs to Your Advantage

MBB Hospitality

In the restaurant industry, managing food costs is not just an operational task—it’s a strategic imperative. Understanding and optimizing restaurant food costs can be the difference between profitability and financial struggle. This article explores effective strategies for controlling food costs while maximizing restaurant revenue. Comprehensive Food Cost Analysis The first step to mastering restaurant food costs is conducting a comprehensive analysis.

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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.