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Is It Time to Reevaluate Your Restaurant or Bar Insurance?

Modern Restaurant Management

The world looked very different one year ago. Just weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic with more questions than answers, every industry was trying to figure out just how to move forward while still remaining safe, and keeping their staff and customers safe as well. One thing is for sure, those in the restaurant industry are well-poised for resiliency in the face of challenge — and they have overcome some real hurdles in the past year.

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5 Excellent Tips to Retain Workers during Restaurant Labor Crisis

Cheetah

Reading Time: 4 minutes. If you’re a restaurant operator, you’re probably experiencing the labor crisis first hand. The staffing shortage is threatening to derail many restaurant reopening plans and crush the hopes of economic recovery. The problem is not just with hiring. With turnover rates at an all time high, restaurants are losing hundreds of thousands of servers, line cooks, busboys and other workers each month.

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What is a Corkage Fee?

Restaurant Clicks

Some restaurants allow customers to bring their bottles of wine to service. If the servers open the wine and pour it into restaurant stemware, then the restaurant charges a corkage fee. Restaurants considering charging corkage fees often wonder what the typical charge is and whether it is legal to charge it. . Usually, when restaurants offer corkage service, customers understand what it is.

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[New] 7shifts Hiring Tools to Help Get Through the Labor Shortage

7 Shifts

If you're having trouble finding great people to work in your restaurant, you're not alone. There is a labor shortage impacting the restaurant industry, which has made the already difficult task of hiring even more challenging. Over the course of the pandemic, some restaurant workers found jobs in new industries, left their cities, or are looking for something new.

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Planning Your Restaurants Path to Profitability

Speaker: James Kahler, COO of Full Course

Ever wondered where to splurge and where to safely conserve when it comes to operating and growing your restaurant? 🤔 Join James Kahler, COO of Full Course and industry visionary, in this new webinar where he'll talk all about best practices to invest in your restaurant's success! Whether you're a new business or an established restaurant, a seasoned pro or a rookie, you'll learn the keys to sustainable success in this competitive industry.

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Five Benefits of Outsourcing Your Restaurant’s Digital Marketing Efforts

Modern Restaurant Management

As a restaurant owner, digital marketing can be a daunting task that takes up valuable time, energy, and resources. Day-to-day demands – coupled with all of the FOH and BOH duties – can be simply too overwhelming for many small restaurant owners. Most simply do not have the time needed to research digital marketing strategies, let alone implement them.

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5 Ways to Create a 5-Star Restaurant Patio Experience This Summer

Sculpture Hospitality

Summer is here which means patio season is back! There’s no better way to attract more guests, build customer loyalty and bring in higher profits to your restaurant or bar than by creating a world-class patio experience.

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Five Signs You Need to Update Your Enterprise Tech Stack with 7shifts and Qu POS

7 Shifts

For many restaurant owners, growth is the ultimate goal—beyond the second and third locations and into the 50s and 100s. If you're lucky enough to scale to that level, the day-in and day-out tasks change significantly. With that growth comes new challenges. Running one store is hard enough—let alone 100. Unless you can multiply yourself, the only way to run an enterprise-level restaurant operation is by leveraging your technology stack.

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Navigating Talent Gaps Across the Foodservice Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM's "Ask the Expert” features advice from Buyers Edge Platform. Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. As restaurants open back up, operators are ready to hire, and in some cases, rehire, employees – but many are finding it difficult to find candidates willing to return to work, and the search for good talent is tougher than expected.

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Restaurant Kitchen Staff is Key to Food Cost Savings

Restaurant365

As a restaurant owner or operator, keeping your food costs low is a continual challenge. Food cost is one of the largest expenses for your restaurant, and because it is a controllable cost, you can influence how it impacts your bottom line. However, while you can adjust your food cost, optimizing your food cost isn’t a one-time event. Training your store-level managers and your kitchen staff about food waste reduction is critical to improving overall Cost of Goods Sold (CoGS).

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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If Restaurants Can Build a Sidewalk Shed, They Can Accommodate Disabled Diners

EATER

Glenn Harvey. Restaurants have a storied history of neglecting ADA guidelines. As they reopen post-pandemic, there’s even less excuse for them to do so. This is Eater Voices , where chefs, restaurateurs, writers, and industry insiders share their perspectives about the food world, tackling a range of topics through the lens of personal experience. Ever been to a restaurant that shares your name?

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Limited Menus: An Ideal Way to Cut Costs and Boost Restaurant Sales

The Restaurant Times

Creating a menu is a crucial task for dining establishments. Deciding on what all to include in the menu can be tricky. However, a bigger menu is not always better. In fact, it is advisable to keep the menu short from the point of view of controlling operating costs and improving customer experience. As revealed by a research study conducted at Columbia University , a limited menu having fewer options eases the process of decision making for the customers.

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Is More Delivery/Takeout on Your Menu? Remove Food Safety Risks—Digitally

Modern Restaurant Management

When the COVID-19 pandemic began in the U.S., a multi-site restaurant operator with more than 200 locations that was shifting to takeout only decided to evaluate its already robust food safety system. The company had installed sensors to monitor its 700+ refrigeration units and flag food temperature “incidents” in real time. Doing some forensics into their records, management realized that over a five-month period they had received over 14,000 alerts to potential problems.

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A Guide To Social Media Marketing For Restaurants

The Eat Restaurant

With a whopping 4.33 Billion active users, social media is slowly taking over the world. To put it into perspective, that constitutes 91% of the total internet users across the globe. Given that this number has gone up by 13% in the last year, it’s safe to say that social media marketing is here to stay.

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Beware of Brands That Love Queer People’s Dollars More Than Queer People

EATER

Shawn Goldberg /Shutterstock. Your annual reminder that just because a company slaps a rainbow on a product during Pride doesn’t mean it supports the community During Pride month one year when I was in high school, I got my underage hands on a limited-edition vodka bottle — one of the ones with a rainbow label, its contents mostly gone. Even when the bottle itself was empty, I tucked it away in the back of my closet, and kept it there for years: at the time, my family didn’t know I was gay.

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Wildwood Restaurants You Should Try This Summer

Restaurant Clicks

Located on the Jersey Shore, Wildwood is a city full of things to do and see. With the beach, shops, hotels, and the Wildwood boardwalk, you’ll never get bored in this town. In addition to all of this, however, are plenty of top-tier restaurants. Being so close to the ocean, many of these spots serve some of the freshest seafood around, too. So, I’ve put together a list of my favorite places to eat in town so you don’t have to.

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Four Reasons Why Mobile Order and Pay Can Ease Staffing Shortage Pressure

Modern Restaurant Management

With restrictions easing, customers are excitedly returning to their favorite restaurants. Yet, nine in ten operators predict issues with recruitment at a time which is essential for our industry's recovery. So just how do you meet this return of demand while operating with a smaller team? Mobile order and pay solutions are a cost-effective way to support the current skilled staff you have to deal with peak periods while also helping to maximize sales.

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How Far Customers Are Willing to Travel to Spend Money

Indoor Media

You can’t have a business without customers. It’s a simple, obvious fact, but it must be said. Centuries ago, if you wanted to sell food, you could go set up in a small frontier town, churn out beans or bread, or whatever you wanted, and have a steady stream of customers. You were probably the only “restaurant” in town. Today, in most towns and certainly in all big cities, there’s a very competitive restaurant landscape.

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Top 5 Ways to Optimize Your Loyalty Strategy

Speaker: Lauren Barash, Vice President, Brand Marketing

In an ever-evolving industry, building and retaining loyal customers is critical to the success of any restaurant business. Join Lauren Barash, VP of Brand Marketing at Full Course, as she delves into the world of restaurant loyalty programs, and reveals the top five essential strategies to optimize your approach! This webinar will explore: Loyalty trends and what you should be focusing on 📊 Actionable insights and ideas to help you develop the most powerful and effective loyalty program

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Increasing Your Restaurant Delivery Profits

Restaurant Engine

The pandemic presented an opportunity for restaurant delivery services. Did you know that more than 60% of consumers in the United States say they order food for delivery once a week? For most of your restaurant customers, delivery is an expected service. Today’s diners want convenience. They don’t want to worry about going somewhere to pick up food – they want you to bring it to them.

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Our Favorite Places to Eat in Ocean City

Restaurant Clicks

Ocean City, a town located along the Jersey Shore, is a great place to visit or live. With its beaches, restaurants, bars, and attractions, there’s so much to do and experience here. Even better, some restaurants offer the beach experience while you dine. When trying to find a restaurant, however, we all know it can be hard to know which spots are worth your time.

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The Ghost Kitchen Opportunity (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

Laws and regulations for Ghost Kitchens are the focus of this episode of The Main Course as host Barbara Castiglia speaks with Brett Buterick, Esq. “Ghost kitchens provide an opportunity to really expand a brand or get a product in front of customers that they otherwise couldn’t because of lower resources,” Buterick said. However, the concept is so popular that even big brands are getting into the virtual kitchen model.

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Changing the Culture | Season 3, Vol. 12: PAR Technology

Foodable

Listen to "Changing the Culture | Season 3, Vol. 12: PAR Technology" on Spreaker. In the latest episode of the Hospitality Hangout podcast, Michael Schatzberg “The Restaurant Guy” and Jimmy Frischling “The Finance Guy” chat with Savneet Singh , the chief executive officer of PAR Technology , to discuss how operators and companies can rethink tech to better serve the ever-changing needs of restaurants.

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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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Reference Guide To Writing A Hotel Business Plan

Gourmet Marketing

Writing a Hotel Business Plan. When you search for “how to start a business” in Google, one of the first things it will tell you to do is make a plan. Every business needs a written plan. In many instances, this isn’t necessarily the place to start when you’re looking to launch a business. But there is no question you’re going to need it sooner rather than later, particularly if you’re after investment money.

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Best Mexican Chain Restaurants in America

Restaurant Clicks

Mexican food is an internationally loved cuisine that is both simple and complex, combining basic ingredients of corn masa, beans, and meat with a vast array of multi-ingredient sauces, garnishes, and slaws. Mexican food is a perfect combination of tangy, spicy, sweet, and savory flavors that has grown and evolved into a multi-billion-dollar chain restaurant industry in the U.S. .

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Protect Your Business From Costly Hail Damage

Modern Restaurant Management

Did you know the region from Texas to Wyoming, known as “Hail Alley,” receives more hailstorms than any other part of the country? Texas has consistently ranked at the top of the list of major hail events each year with 872 in 2019 and 601 in 2020. The damaging hail season begins mid-April, running through the summer and into September. Hailstorms are known for causing significant damage, wreaking financial havoc on individuals and business owners.

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4 Reasons Why Restaurants Need Big Data to Survive the Recovery

Black Box Intelligence

Do you feel confident that you know how your business is performing in comparison to the rest of the industry? Do you understand how your sales stack up next to your competitors’? And what about your workforce metrics? Do you feel like you’ve got a good hold on your staffing levels? With all the changes that the restaurant industry went through in the last 18 months, knowing these insights can have a dramatic impact on your long-term viability and financial stability.

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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.