Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Chefs admit they often look to TikTok for inspiration, and a number of viral ideas have already shown up on their menus. Others may be coming through the pipeline.

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Food 312

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The dining landscape is shifting, driven by Gen Z's (currently 11- to 26-year-olds) quest for “genuine” culinary experiences over the conventional allure of "the best" restaurants. Gen Z has an appetite for knowledge that sits at the tip of their fingers, unlike any generation before. They research, investigate and seek out experiences – especially when it comes to restaurants.

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Social Media Customer Experience Influencer Dine-in 493

Sculpture Hospitality

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

95 percent of restaurateurs agree that technology improves business efficiency, according to Toast , but why is that? It’s because not only does technology make them more efficient, it also gives them the data they need for success.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Most restaurant owners work hard to make sure their restaurant is a clean environment that provides a hygienic experience for customers and workers. A clean restaurant improves the overall dining experience and more importantly, prevents people from getting sick while eating your food. Restaurant staffers clean the front and back of the house every night before closing and tidy up before opening every day.

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Specials Operations Hiring Front of House 492

Advertiser: Paycor

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.

Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

We loved them once. Will we love them again? Nancy Kruse and Lisa Jennings talk about the wave of restaurant brand revivals attempting to make what's old new again.

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Operations 274

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Restaurants of today are infused with technology in many new ways, and it’s making a difference. The ripple effects of the pandemic continue: the National Restaurant Association finds that off-premises dining continues to happen much more frequently than before, with 66% of consumers more likely to order takeout in 2023 than they were before the pandemic.

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Management Management Operations Mobile Ordering 352

The Rail

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

By Alfie Leach, Contributor In the restaurant industry, the choice of location can make or break your business. So, finding the perfect spot for your restaurant relocation is vital. Whether you want to expand your culinary empire, rebrand your restaurant, or simply seek better opportunities, your chosen location is a cornerstone of your success. Picture this: a bustling neighborhood with a steady stream of hungry patrons, a location that resonates with your target audience, and a space that alig

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License Entertainment Customer Service Customer Experience 147

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In this video from the Making Dough Restaurant Show – by Hengam Stanfield , she discusses the best practices for launching a restaurant, particularly when cash on hand is limited. She offers insights on pitfalls to avoid using her own experiences as examples.

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Operations 275

EATER

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Shutterstock Strategic Dining Days are real. Take advantage of them. The world of dining and drinking is an obstacle course wrapped in a labyrinth wrapped in a logic puzzle — it's full of pitfalls, gray areas, and bewildering questions that really shouldn't even be questions (How do I find the bathroom?) and yet, somehow, are. Fortunately, your friends at Eater are here to help: Life Coach is a series of simple guides to the arcane rituals of modern dining.

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7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Restaurants of today are infused with technology in many new ways, and it’s making a difference. The ripple effects of the pandemic continue: the National Restaurant Association finds that off-premises dining continues to happen much more frequently than before, with 66% of consumers more likely to order takeout in 2023 than they were before the pandemic.

Management 367

Management Management Operations Mobile Ordering 367

Advertiser: Paycor

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.

Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The burger giant, which bought nearly 2 billion eggs last year, said it had to rework its supply chain to meet its sourcing demands.

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Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this edition of MRM Research Roundup, we feature pizza predictions, Valentine's Day menu trends and lots about loyalty. Pizza Ordering Predictions HungerRush released the results of a national dining survey on 2024 pizza ordering predictions for The Big Game (February 11) and National Pizza Day (February 9). The data revealed an overwhelming 72 percent of diners plan on ordering pizza this year on either The Big Game, National Pizza Day, or both.

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2024 Loyalty Program Food Order 2030 492

EATER

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The burrito. | Photo: Jaya Saxena/Eater; photoillustration: Lille Allen/Eater I was looking for comfort. Could comfort food really provide it? My spouse said they knew something was wrong. At first I didn’t think I was doing anything differently — I was eating string cheese on the couch as they got ready for band practice, looking at my laptop, not saying anything.

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Food Order Social Media Consumer Goods Take-out 325

7 Shifts

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Restaurant technology is no longer a nice-to-have: it’s an absolute necessity for building a modern, resilient restaurant that can become and stay competitive. The first technologies that restaurants often invest in are cloud-based point of sale (POS) systems and payroll processing. A wide-ranging industry report from Toast included a section on restaurant technology trends, noting that 82% of restaurants were using a POS, followed by 56% using payroll software.

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Technology Mobile Ordering Social Media Online Ordering 312

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.

2025

Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Spoiler alert: It’s the shot at expanding the labor pool by thousands of prospective hires per day.

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Hiring 307

Modern Restaurant Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The world of food franchising has been a catalyst for pioneering innovations that have had a ripple effect across multiple industries. After all, the McDonald brothers, with the pivotal support of Ray Kroc, changed our approach to franchising altogether. And it’s safe to say that the food franchising industry brought Henry Ford’s approach to process optimization to a whole new level.

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Communication Franchise Franchising Leadership 471

EATER

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Binoche and Magimel have the lockstep choreography of two people who have been sharing a kitchen together for decades. | IFC Juliette Binoche and chef Pierre Gagnaire share what it was like to film the most mesmerizing food movie in years The Taste of Things , the new French-language film from director Trần Anh Hùng, begins with an extended cooking sequence.

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Ken Burgin

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Designing a food-tasting program for front-of-house staff is a fantastic way to enhance their appreciation and knowledge of food, which in turn can significantly improve the guest experience and average customer spending. Here are 40 training activities for chefs to run for waiters and front-of-house staff within a 15-minute session. They are designed to be engaging and educational and build a competitive spirit.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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.

2025

Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Same-store sales rose 4.3% in the U.S., thanks to marketing, operations and its growing loyalty program. But sales came thanks to higher prices rather than traffic. And the chain saw sales challenges in the Middle East.

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Restaurant Technology Guys

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Introduction In the rapidly evolving world of business and marketing, the importance of having an effective online presence cannot be overstated. For B2B enterprises and a growing number of B2C businesses, LinkedIn has become a territory ripe for exploration and development. In a recent candid conversation with Jeremy Julian, Justin Ulrich, a marketing head at Evocalize, yields meaningful insights into how best to navigate LinkedIn’s treacherous yet reward-filled waters.

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Technology Marketing Social Media 122

EATER

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Sarah Baird If you want to maximize your soup consumption, it’s time to invest in a vessel that’s up to the task For the extremely online among us, it’s been nearly impossible to miss the rise of soup as the latest embodiment of our collective need for comfort. It arguably began in late 2021 with the “soup girl” phenomenon, which gave us viral TikTok audios like “ gorgeous, gorgeous girls love soup ” and “ good soup.

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Social Media 2024 Outdoor Take-out 317

Crunchtime

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Plus, 5 ways to improve compliance with standard operating procedures Whether you run a restaurant business with 500+ locations or a handful of convenience store locations, you know what work needs to be done – and how it should be done properly – to run your business effectively. From how to set up the store before opening to how certain foods should be prepared to certain areas should be sanitized, having a standard way of doing things makes work more efficient and gives you confidence that em

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Operations Audits Cash Management Food Safety 78

Advertiser: Paycor

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.

Leadership

Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The nation’s largest restaurant economy is about to raise hourly pay for limited-service restaurant workers by 25%. Price hikes are on their way. But will high prices drive diners away?

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Operations Food Pricing 293

The Eat Restaurant

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Integrating your point of sale (POS) system with Eat app has numerous benefits. Streamline your operations, improve customer experience, and boost your marketing strategies with this powerful integration.

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POS Point of Sale Customer Experience Marketing 78

Culinary Cues

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I am the canvas on which the cook paints, the frame that draws the viewers eye to the image drawn. I am the plate – too often disregarded except by those who understand the importance of the canvas and the frame. The right plate makes all the difference in how the menu item is perceived and the first impressions of a meal. Should the plate be a work of art unto its own or should it simply be a blank page serving as the accomplice to the painter’s work?

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White Paper Presentation Café Design 384

Crunchtime

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Task management is an essential part of operating a business: prioritizing tasks, assigning them to employees, and following up to ensure completion are all critical for any senior manager to run an efficient operation. The most common gap when it comes to task management? Follow-up.

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Operations Management Management 78

Advertiser: Paycor

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.

Leadership

Restaurant Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Reality Check: This year's mother of all industry forecasts is packed with tidbits that are likely to surprise. Here are five we found in the National Restaurant Association's State of the Restaurant Industry report.

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Operations 296

The Eat Restaurant

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Here are a few things to think about when you're considering starting a pop-up restaurant.

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Evergreen

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

If you run a restaurant, keeping track of your inventory is crucial for maintaining profitability and efficiency. This ultimate guide will provide you with all the information you need about restaurant inventory control systems. From understanding the importance […] The post The Ultimate Guide to Restaurant Inventory Control Systems appeared first on Evergreen.

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Crunchtime

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Texas Roadhouse , a renowned brand in the restaurant industry, has been setting the standard for operational excellence through its commitment to comprehensive training and development. This case study delves into the strategies employed by Texas Roadhouse to ensure the success of its nearly 90,000 employees across 650 locations throughout its diverse brand family, including Jaggers and Bubba's 33.

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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.

Small Business