7 Shifts

APRIL 3, 2023

By Hassel Aviles, Executive Director of Not 9 to 5 and Jasmin Parks-Papadopoulus, Head of Community at CHOW. Table of Contents Acknowledge the challenges Education about psychological safety Open communication Prioritize workplace mental health Create a healthy workplace for everyone It starts with acknowledging the challenges. The traditional restaurant business model has neglected workplace mental health for centuries and, as a result, often creates toxic work environments.

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Food Safety Education Communication Hospitality 195

Sculpture Hospitality

APRIL 4, 2023

The restaurant industry has been hit hard by the pandemic with staffing shortages being one of the biggest challenges faced by restaurant owners. Over the past few years, many workers have left the industry and as a result, finding skilled staff has become increasingly difficult.

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Inventory 147

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 3, 2023

Think of what your restaurant can accomplish with quality auditing. First (and most importantly), you’ll maximize quality and safety while minimizing risk. Audits can also help brands identify (and fix) areas of non-compliance, as well as spot (and address) potential threats. Collecting and analyzing real-time data allows operators to make more informed decisions that can optimize operations, increase efficiencies, boost revenue, reduce waste, cut costs, and drive restaurant growth.

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Bizimply

APRIL 5, 2023

Are you struggling with staff retention, in particular with Gen Z? Attracting, gaining and engaging this generation has completely changed. The post Staff Retention Tips for the Gen Z appeared first on Bizimply.

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Management Management 52

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.

Sling

APRIL 2, 2023

Incentive pay may be just what your business is looking for to motivate team members to push past plateaus into higher levels of performance. But what exactly is this type of compensation, how does it work, and what options could your business offer? We’ll answer those questions in this article and introduce you to an app that can help you manage your workforce better.

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Cash Management Loyalty Program Casual Specials 78

The Eat Restaurant

APRIL 4, 2023

The restaurant industry has rapidly changed over the past few years, with new technologies and reservation apps emerging. One of the most popular apps in this space is SevenRooms.

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Reservations Technology 78

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 4, 2023

The labor shortage that began in 2020 has not slowed, with restaurants continuing to struggle to fill open positions and keep employees long-term. As a result, they are looking for ways to better optimize their labor operations while also maximizing business opportunities. This typically includes creating staff schedules based on sales forecasts, trimming labor during slow times, and providing managers with more control – and accountability.

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2023 Customer Experience Restaurant Law Communication 419

7 Shifts

APRIL 3, 2023

The restaurant industry has a wage problem. It's one of the only industries where workers can legally be paid under the already low Federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. Restaurants can operate while paying staff a sub-minimum wage of just $2.13 an hour, leaving the rest of an employee's compensation up to the good will of customers in the form of tips.

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Front of House Tip Distribution Back of House Restaurant Law 370

Restaurant Business

APRIL 4, 2023

A restaurant's placement on apps like DoorDash and Uber Eats is based on a variety of factors, including marketing fees. But the specifics are still something of a mystery. Here's a look at what we know.

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Delivery Marketing Technology 317

The Rail

APRIL 4, 2023

By Torrey Tayenaka, Contributor Video marketing for restaurants is an essential type of marketing campaign to inspire patrons to visit or order. This is how you show them the colors and textures of your food. Let them see the heat spilling off your freshly cooked dishes and the bubbles in your drinks, so they can practically taste it for themselves.

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Social Media Front of House Advertising 2022 264

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.

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 5, 2023

Customers can be stopped in their tracks by negative reviews, keeping your business from growing the way it should. By strategizing to avoid these harmful negative reviews, you can see direct growth and improvements in guest relations. Negative reviews are a detriment to restaurants since they impact not just reputation, but revenue as well. 86 percent of customers hesitate to purchase from companies with negative reviews.

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Technology Social Media Customer Experience Communication 445

EATER

APRIL 4, 2023

Aizuwakamatsu Castle during the cherry blossom bloom in Fukushima, Japan. | Norikazu/Shutterstock A few hours from Tokyo by bullet train, the rugged northern region features Miyazaki-worthy landscapes, a coastline chock full of seafood, and some of the country’s most stunning cherry blossoms In Japan’s internationally beloved food scene, urban hubs tend to steal all of the attention.

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Brewery Back of House 2011 Hotels 261

Restaurant Business

APRIL 3, 2023

Restaurants are getting ready for patio season, offering seasonal menu options and gearing up for an influx of foot traffic as consumers head out more frequently. For operators looking for ways to appeal to diners in the coming months, offering craveable, familiar favorites along with a mix of new options that are destined to become classics is key.

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Outdoor Seasonal Menu Social Media Menu 264

Goliath Consulting

APRIL 4, 2023

Pizza Today , the leading magazine for pizzeria owners and operators, released its annual State of the Pizzeria Industry Report, which provides pizza professionals with a deep dive report of pizzeria insights, issues, and trends for 2023. Moreover, Pizza Today surveyed 750 pizzeria owners from all 50 states to comprehensively understand the pizza industry.

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2023 Fast Casual Point of Sale Email Marketing 195

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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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 6, 2023

The start of spring this month also signals the start of flood season – the natural disasters that account for 90 percent of all natural disaster damage, according to the American Red Cross. Additionally, annual costs to repair or replace damaged buildings could grow by roughly 25 percent from $13.5 billion in 2022 to over $16.9 billion by 2052 due to climate change.

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EATER

APRIL 3, 2023

A spread of Filipino dishes from Kuya Lord’s | Bettina Makalintal/Eater Skip the constant Resy monitoring this time This post originally appeared in the April 1, 2023, edition of Eater Travel, a biweekly dispatch from Eater’s staff about navigating places where food is the main attraction. Subscribe now. The last thing I wanted to do while prepping for my recent vacation to Los Angeles was log onto Resy at midnight a few nights in a row to try for a table at Pijja Palace, the Indian sports bar t

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Reservations Food Truck Social Media Travel 363

Restaurant Business

APRIL 6, 2023

Epic Kitchens was part of a wave of operators reimagining delivery-only restaurants. But less than two years after opening, its two virtual food halls are closed.

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Delivery Operations Food Technology 290

Crunchtime

APRIL 6, 2023

With the speed of change in the industry, restaurants face a range of new challenges that make it more difficult than ever to control profitability and deliver great guest experiences. In Cruchtime’s recent webinar , our prestigious panel of operations experts from Burger King, Culver’s, and Chipotle shared the best practices on how to compete consistently and profitably in every location, from ensuring quality team execution and training to managing the two most impactful costs to the business

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Operations Webinar Training Management 148

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

Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 7, 2023

One challenging aspect of owning a small business is purchasing and maintaining expensive equipment. This is especially true in the food service industry. Restaurant equipment directly affects the customer experience and operating efficiency from the quality of food offered, the food preparation time and the front and back of house staff levels required to properly service the customer.

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Cash Management Equipment Front of House Small Business 251

EATER

APRIL 6, 2023

Meredith Lynne /Eater Six months after Michelin bestowed its first-ever stars upon Vancouver, BC, the local restaurant scene is readjusting ​​Back in October, Vancouver became the second city in Canada to have its own Michelin Guide. After weeks of feverish speculation, the city scored just eight one-star restaurants and 12 Bib Gourmands (the guide’s “great food at a great price” category), with 40 others on the recommended list.

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Fine Dining Reservations Pricing Cash Management 246

Restaurant Business

APRIL 4, 2023

The big operator, which sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January and was put up for sale, is being sold to four different companies, including Burger King's former U.K. operator and a big Round Table Pizza franchisee.

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Operations 279

Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 4, 2023

It’s fair to say that many specialty coffee brands base their marketing strategies around the idea that coffee consumers want to be more connected to farmers. These branding techniques largely revolve around disseminating more information about where coffee comes from , including the farmers who grow it. The majority of specialty coffee professionals want to know as much information about origin as possible.

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Consumer Goods Sustainability Email Marketing Café 144

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

Thrive POS

APRIL 6, 2023

Pizza delivery has come a long way since the days of hand-written orders and phone calls. With the advent of online ordering and delivery apps, the industry has seen significant growth and change in recent years. In this article, we'll take a look at some of the latest trends and innovations in pizza delivery and what the future might hold for this ever-evolving sector, including the role of pizza point of sale (POS) systems.

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EATER

APRIL 3, 2023

Graydon Herriott Jorge Gaviria’s company, Masienda, is making a name for itself among chefs and home cooks — and building a more sustainable supply chain in the process In How I Got My Job , folks from across the food and restaurant industry answer Eater’s questions about, well, how they got their job. Today’s installment: Jorge Gaviria. Jorge Gaviria was raised in Miami by a Mexican mother and a Cuban father, so he grew up eating a lot of masa.

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Food Supply Front of House Supplies Consumer Goods 245

Restaurant Business

APRIL 5, 2023

The Pennsylvania-based donut chain introduced a new design aimed at optimizing orders for customers and reducing costs for franchisees. Take a look inside.

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Design Ordering Operations 279

Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 7, 2023

Every Friday, Perfect Daily Grind rounds up the top coffee industry news from the previous week. Here are this week’s stories. Mon, 3 Apr SCA announces 2023 UK Barista Champion. Ian Kissick of Formative Coffee in London placed first, and will represent the UK at the 2023 World Barista Championship in Athens, Greece from 21 to 24 June. This year’s High Density event to take place on 16 November 2023.

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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

The Food Corridor

APRIL 3, 2023

As the leader in Shared Kitchen Management software, we get to collaborate with and hear the inspiring stories of shared kitchen managers every day. But what role are these shared kitchens playing in communities across the country as a whole? In 2021, we compiled data in collaboration with The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) and Colorado State University to create four case studies that would provide a broader perspective to the impact of these shared kitchens as a whole.

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Food Small Business 2014 Agriculture 98

EATER

APRIL 5, 2023

Synonymous with Passover, the unleavened bread is both a symbol and a food One of the seder’s great earworms, the Four Questions, kicks off by asking, “Why is this night different from other nights?” Then comes the first of those questions: “On other nights we eat leavened or unleavened bread, but only unleavened tonight — why?” You might also wonder why some Jewish people adopt an entirely new dietary regime over the seven or eight days of Passover.

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Consumer Goods Food Order Take-out Restaurant Law 246

Restaurant Business

APRIL 4, 2023

The private-equity firm created by RE/MAX co-founder Dave Liniger has plans to expand the sandwich brand with a regional developer franchise model.

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Franchising Franchise Operations 278

Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 3, 2023

For coffee professionals and consumers alike, a well-textured milk-based coffee beverage – such as a latte, flat white , or cappuccino – is a highly desirable sensory experience. And while espresso plays a key role in the quality of the drink, the texture of the steamed milk is also integral. Milk steaming, however, is a notoriously difficult process to learn and master – and it can often take baristas months to know how to do it effectively.

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Waste Beverage Article Customer Experience 147

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.

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