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Six Menu Engineering Tips and Tricks to Impact Your Restaurant’s Bottom Line

Restaurant365

Every customer who orders from your restaurant takes a look at your menu, making it one of the most important pieces of your restaurant marketing. With this visibility, restaurant menu engineering provides a huge opportunity to grow your profits and ensure a great customer experience. A profitable menu doesn’t happen by accident. A detailed understanding of your food costs, menu pricing, and average contribution margin allows you to leverage menu item data into smart, informed restaurant m

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Fair Workweek Law: An Overview

7 Shifts

Cities and states across the US are responding to a movement known as “ fair workweek ,” with many enacting new laws to shield restaurant employees’ personal lives and finances from the notoriously unpredictable world of restaurant scheduling. Even though fair workweek has already been established law in cities like New York and states like Oregon, many restaurants affected by these laws don’t know the full extent of them (or are ignoring them altogether).

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Enough Yelling and Screaming: Restaurants Need Kindness in the Kitchen

Xtra Chef

I finally hit my breaking point. For months I’d been berated by senior chefs, screamed at over small details, and torn to shreds for every mistake. Then I made the cardinal sin of forgetting to remove an oxidized piece of foie gras from a dish — and the chef let me have it. This time, I snapped. I was crying, yelling, and cursing. I even broke a few plates.

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The biggest food delivery pain points and how to solve them

Deliverect

According to a recently published report by the NRA , restaurant sales will grow to $1.2 trillion by 2030 - a growth that's very much driven by off-premise orders. Restaurants - and businesses like groceries, supermarkets and FMC companies - that want a piece of the action have to think about their takeaway, drive-through and/or delivery strategy. Setting up a delivery service, though definitely worth the while, does come with a few pain points, all of which can be easily solved by automating th

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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A Recipe for Success

Modern Restaurant Management

In the food and beverage business, “buzz” is a valuable commodity that can make your restaurant, bar, or brewery the place to be. Whether it is introducing a new menu that capitalizes on the poke bowl trend or publishing a cookbook with the “secret” recipes of your accomplished chef, restaurateurs are experts at coming up with creative ideas to generate buzz for their establishments.

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10 Simple Metrics Restaurants Can Use To Increase Revenue

Marketman

Restaurant metrics give insight into the little details that make your business your business; what is working, and what isn’t. When running a small business every piece of data is valuable, and so is the analytics system you choose. Standard practice has seen a back room filled with orders and invoices, piles of manually logged inventories. But with the technological boom in analytics, things have changed in the world of restaurant metrics.

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10 Ways Hospitality Companies Can Slash Staff Turnover

Benchmarque

Hospitality staff turnover is an expensive issue. In fact, research indicates that turnover in the hospitality industry is higher than retail and construction, costing businesses thousands of dollars to replace each outgoing employee. The industry experiences high turnover due to three primary reasons.

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3 Creative Recipes for Marketing Success

Open for Business

When it comes to restaurant marketing, winemaker dinners and charity events are two of the most common activations. While those events can build excitement and help promote visibility, they aren’t the only events that work. Out-of-the-box thinking is required to develop new partnerships that can break through the noise and represent a win for the restaurant, guests, and partners.

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The Right Way to Start a Loyalty Program

Lavu

Restaurant loyalty programs have gotten a bad rep in recent years. Many people have advised restaurants not to use these programs at all, as most programs fail. However, having repeat business at a restaurant is vital for its success, and loyalty programs can help businesses achieve more regular customers than without a program in place and incentivize them to come in more frequently.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Famous Dave’s: A Quarter Century of BBQ Evolution

Modern Restaurant Management

Famous Dave's is one restaurant brand that evokes salivation satisfaction. Recently celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Minneapolis-based restaurant franchise was founded on Dave Anderson's passion for BBQ. While the brand has grown to 130 locations in 33 states and three countries and sells 14 million pounds of pork annually, it is constantly evolving.

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5 Tech-Savvy Ways to Improve Your Restaurant Sales

Social Hospitality

It can be tricky to find new ways to improve your restaurant sales. Ambitious brick-and-mortar business must adapt to digital advances in order to profit. Running a restaurant business means keeping up with challenges as well as emerging tech. Instead of thinking about technology as a necessary evil, embrace it and utilize it to facilitate certain processes.

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Strategies For Automating Restaurant Operations

Sculpture Hospitality

In the hospitality business, who doesn’t want to streamline? Efficient operations are good for everyone. You won’t waste time on repetitive tasks. You won’t pay personnel for work you could automate. Employees will be less frustrated. Customers will enjoy better experiences. And you’ll be free to invest in the areas of your business that matter most.

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WITH A LANDMARK COOKBOOK, AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN CELEBRATES A RECORD 20 YEARS

Sante

America's Test Kitchen celebrates 20 years with commemorative cookbook that offers tried-and-true recipes plus insights from the show's chefs. As the longest-running and most successful cooking show on public television, America’s Test Kitchen has reached the remarkable milestone of 20 years on the air, providing top-notch instruction and foolproof recipes to home cooks everywhere.

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Planning Your Restaurant's 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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What Travelers Want in F&B and US Foods Scholars

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM News Bites SevenRooms, Miso Robotics , PARTech, Delaware North, Illes Foods, Tablelist and Discotech and US Foods. What’s Important to Travelers. SevenRooms released its “Checking In For F&B” report, which uncovered the most important things to today’s traveler when it comes to food and beverage at hotels.

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5 trends transforming delivery in 2020

Deliverect

The food delivery industry is continuing to grow at a rapid-fire pace, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to slow down any time soon. Digital restaurant orders grew 23% annually since 2013 and are expected to triple in volume by 2020, according to The NPD Group. As the industry evolves, new players are going for their cut of the pie, while new technologies are taking on-demand culture to another level.

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How To Calculate And Control Restaurant Labor Cost

Sling

Calculating and controlling restaurant labor costs is essential for the success of your business. If you’re not familiar with the key metrics that result in labor cost and labor cost percentage, it’s very difficult to get control of your bottom line. In this article, the restaurant-management experts at Sling give you four easy steps to calculate your restaurant labor cost and then provide suggestions for controlling these numbers.

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Waitr’s Recent Struggles Expose the Instability of Commission-Based Delivery Apps

ChowNow

Waitr is one of the many third-party delivery marketplaces that’s been in the news lately for less than flattering reasons. The Lake Charles, Louisiana-based online ordering and delivery app saw its stock price plunge , lost its CEO and CFO recently, and has even been the subject of boycotts by restaurateurs and customers. This turbulence is a warning sign for restaurants that have invested all their money and hopes in a commission-based third-party online ordering app. .

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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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Non-Admitted vs. Admitted Insurance for Restaurants, Bars or Taverns

Modern Restaurant Management

It is important for restaurant, tavern and bar owners to have the right insurance, however, there are so many different types of policies, and even when you zero in on what is needed, the options are often complex and difficult to compare. Let’s face it. You are in the hospitality business. You know food, drinks and how to deliver an entertaining night out.

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A close look at coffee trends and statistics in Australia

Kounta

Data from The Australian Bureau of Statistics shows profit margins across the food services sector at 5% and falling, with only slightly more than half of businesses still open after four years. Needless to say, it’s tough out there. We surveyed 1,000 coffee drinkers from all states and territories across Australia about their attitudes and expectations when it comes to the price, quality and experience of ordering a takeaway coffee.

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1 Easy Trick to Boost Your Restaurant Instagram Presence

Lavu

Where there is engagement on Instagram, there is increased foot traffic to your restaurant. It can be said that Instagram is the most influential social media site for businesses. Retail stores and fashion brands can have such high engagement that stock sells out within days of a heavy marketing push. That’s because shoppers are using Instagram the way they used to use a brand’s website.

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Grow Restaurant Holiday Sales & Get Ready for the New Year With Online Ordering

ChowNow

It’s no secret that the holidays are a hectic time for many restaurants. Saturdays in December are statistically the busiest days for all types of independent restaurants across the country, and pizzerias see their largest order sizes on key dates between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. What might be more surprising, though, is that the holidays are actually a great time to implement your own commission-free online ordering system.

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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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Does my Restaurant Need to Use an EMV/Chip Reader?

Ordyx

Yes and no. Photo by Devon Janse van Rensburg There are no laws telling restaurants or any other businesses that they absolutely need to use an EMV reader. However, credit card companies shifted the responsibility in terms of credit card fraud to store owners. If you click on that link, it will take you to Visa’s page outlining the dangers of not observing their demands.

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Growth Strategies for Food and Beverage Clusters

Future Food

Tea Tree Plaza, Adelaide. Growth strategies for F&B clusters, independent of the architectural envelopes they inhabit. When Future Food partners with our Clients on redevelopment projects, one of the first stages that we frequently perform is the evaluation of a proposed scheme and how F&B should be incorporated into it. Most frequently this is driven by the architectural scheme and the locating of F&B into the scheme, frequently with non-food priorities and considerations as the bac

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3 Creative Recipes for Marketing Success

Open for Business

When it comes to restaurant marketing, winemaker dinners and charity events are two of the most common activations. While those events can build excitement and help promote visibility, they aren’t the only events that work. Out-of-the-box thinking is required to develop new partnerships that can break through the noise and represent a win for the restaurant, guests, and partners.

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10 Simple Metrics Restaurants Can Use To Increase Revenue

Marketman

Restaurant metrics give insight into the little details that make your business your business; what is working, and what isn’t. When running a small business every piece of data is valuable, and so is the analytics system you choose. Standard practice has seen a back room filled with orders and invoices, piles of manually logged inventories. But with the technological boom in analytics, things have changed in the world of restaurant metrics.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.