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The restaurant technology stack: tech you need to run your business

Deliverect

COVID-19 has fundamentally changed the way restaurants operate. The lockdown accelerated the adoption of online ordering and delivery tech as dining rooms closed and people were stuck at home. It has also brought contactless ordering and payment to the fore, especially as restaurants prepare to reopen with new sanitation and distancing measures in place.

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Before You Reopen Your Restaurant.Think About Your Staff

Embrace the Suck

We all want to get back to “normal,” whatever that means now. Honestly, normal wasn’t very normal in the first place so, let’s look at this as a plot twist! This time around is your opportunity to do things better than you did before. COVID-19 isn’t your fault, but how you ran your restaurant before is. Now, if that upsets you a little bit, then read on because there are a few things we must discuss.

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The Essential Guide to Modern Restaurant Accounting

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7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

7 Shifts

As restaurants slowly ease back to dine-in service, the grand reopening doesn’t have the usual full house feeling. While you must follow the strict guidelines to ensure the safety of your staff and customers, that’s not to say you can’t take advantage of an empty restaurant to improve your knowledge of restaurant management, running a business, and creating a recipe for success when you eventually get back to business as usual.

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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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STRENGTH, GRACE, AND DIGNITY

Culinary Cues

I am in the process of reading Chef Dominique Crenn’s autobiography: Rebel Chef. I have long been a fan of her style and passion for expressive cooking, but it is these three words that solidified, in my mind, how a chef should run his or her kitchen: Strength, Grace, and Dignity. Those of us who are over the age of 40 – probably worked in a kitchen or two where Strength may have always been at the core of a chef’s style, but Grace and Dignity were not part of the formula.

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3 Auto Repair In-Store Advertising Tactics to Try

Indoor Media

Are you missing a major opportunity to turn one-time customers into repeat customers? Auto repair in-store advertising tactics deliver your message to qualified, engaged consumers in the same place where they can make a purchase. Combined with your outbound marketing tactics, in-store advertising creates a well-rounded marketing strategy for your auto shop.

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Surviving COVID-19: 7 Financing Options for Restaurants

7 Shifts

Every industry is feeling the impact of COVID-19, but restaurants face some of the most difficult challenges. Shelter-in-place orders, social distancing, and business closures make it next to impossible to generate pre-coronavirus revenue numbers. And no money means mo' problems. It takes money to make money, and restaurants desperately need to make money to survive COVID-19 in the short and long term.

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How to Set Up and Run a Ghost Kitchen for Your Restaurant Business

Restaurant365

Shelter-in-place orders, dine-in restrictions and diners’ hesitation to eat out have combined to prompt restaurants to shift their focus to takeout and delivery. Increased demand for food delivery had already boosted the growth of ghost kitchens, and the COVID-19 pandemic has escalated both the popularity and profitability of the model. Ghost kitchens cut the cost of real estate and labor by reducing the restaurant model to accommodate off-premise food sales.

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Tech Holds the Answers to Reopening Guidelines

Modern Restaurant Management

As restaurants begin reopening, there are pressing and immediate concerns. However, it’s equally important to also take a long-term strategic approach to the Coronavirus. Both now and for the future, technology can answer many of the question’s managers have surrounding maintaining the health of employees, ensuring the safety of their guests and protecting their bottom line.

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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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How to Get Yelp Reviews for Your Auto Repair Shop

Indoor Media

Unless someone already has a trusted mechanic, they’re most likely to take to Google when in need of auto repairs. Then, they sift through an abundance of auto shop listings and reviews before choosing their new shop. This is why reviews are a vital part of your online presence. Yelp auto repair reviews, in particular, can give you high visibility if you have a Yelp page and even increase your chances of being seen in Google search results.

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How To Stay Connected To Followers As Your Influence Grows

Lady Boss Blogger

Making sure you stay connected to your followers on your social media platforms is essential for continuous growth. When operating the LadyBossBlogger Instagram, it’s common for us to reach out to other businesses and female entrepreneurs to make the LadyBossBlogger community grow. In many cases, however, we won’t receive a response back. This can be […].

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James Beard Employees Demand More Diversity in Leadership, Salary Transparency in Internal Letter

EATER

James Beard Foundation. Among other demands, the letter calls to diversify the board of trustees, and make events more equitable On July 16, a large group of James Beard Foundation employees sent a letter to the foundation’s senior leadership team, outlining a list of demands for the future of the organization. The anonymous employees describe themselves in the letter, which was shared with Eater, as a group that has “dedicated years of their lives to the work of the James Beard Foundation despi

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How Restaurants Can Improve Indoor Air Quality in the Coronavirus Era

Modern Restaurant Management

Even as restrictions loosen and thousands of restaurants can legally open their dining rooms, many customers remain hesitant to dine in. Therefore, it’s critical for restaurants to do everything possible to put customers and employees at ease. That means restaurants must embrace extra safeguards, including those that improve indoor air quality.

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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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Creating and maintaining good workplace culture

Typsy

Workplace culture is one of those things that seems like it can take care of itself, but anyone who's worked in a negative environment will tell you that a toxic workplace can spiral out of control quite quickly - and create all sorts of problems along the way. Luckily, positivity is just as contagious: good vibes beget good vibes. In today's post, guest blogger Mike Walmsley is looking at how you can identify whether your workplace has a positive or negative culture, and how you can foster a po

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COVID Compliance Q&A with Ogletree Deakins

Hot Schedules

BLOG. Q&A: COVID Compliance Ogletree Deakins. Ina Young of Ogletree Deakins, answered some of the hospitality industry’s most vital COVID compliance questions. I n a recent webinar, our outside legal counsel, Ina Young of Ogletree Deakins, answered some of the hospitality industry’s most vital COVID compliance questions. If you’re one of the many struggling to understand if the evolving labor and employment mandates will impact your business or your team members – this post is for you

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Good Beverage and Food Inventory Control Helps Protect Tight Margins

Sculpture Hospitality

Regions across the world are in different phases of reopening their economy. Unfortunately, some locations are already shutting back down due to a new wave of COVID-19 cases. Now more than ever, the hospitality industry needs to band together to protect its customers, staff and margins. So what does that even mean? Well, first and foremost, the safety of people is the most important priority.

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Bridging the Generation Gaps: How We Are All Dining Today 

Modern Restaurant Management

It turns out Gen Z and the Baby Boomers can now agree on something: the two bookend generations want more take out (and delivery and drive-thru). Our team at Revenue Management Solutions uncovered these similarities and a few differences in our May survey of 1,200 U.S. consumers , who shared their insights on dining out, what eases their concerns, how much they’re interacting with restaurants now, and how their habits have changed.

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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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NEW COURSE: COVID-19 business restart for managers

Typsy

If you're a hospitality manager, you might be thinking about - or are already in the process of - restarting and reopening your venue to "normal" operations. 2020 has been a bit of a wild ride so far, so you could be forgiven for feeling a little anxious. That's where Typsy's new course, 'COVID-19 business restart for managers' comes in. We're taking the guesswork out of reopening to give you a strategic, confident path to coming back stronger than ever.

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COVID Resources

Hot Schedules

BLOG. COVID Resources. COVID Labor Legislation Resources By State. E ? ach state and local government has its own layer of complex, evolving labor legislation built with the intention to keep your teams and your businesses safe. But often when details in these workplace mandates get revised overnight it can be cumbersome to ensure your operations are remaining compliant.

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Improving Customer Experience For Your Restaurant Online

Restaurant Engine

The customer experience starts with your online presence before it gets to your dining room. You website is often the gateway to your brick and mortar restaurant. It’s often the “door” your customers first walk through. Because of this, you want to make sure your restaurant’s website is performing as well as it can be. You want to always be working on improving customer experience for your restaurant online.

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What Restaurants Need to Know About PPP Forgiveness, Including Recent Changes 

Modern Restaurant Management

Restaurants and retail are among the industries that have been most severely impacted by the current pandemic. While restaurants certainly include national chains, the majority in the US are independently owned and operated, including franchises. Many have been passed down for generations. Imagine a pandemic shut your entire business down and thinking, “this will be temporary… a few weeks,” as many restaurant owners believed in late February and early March.

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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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Can Restaurants Survive Shutting Down Again?

EATER

Restaurants may close again | Ben Gabbe/Getty Images. Closing dining rooms once cost a lot of money, but closing twice could be even worse At Twisted Soul Cookhouse and Pours in Atlanta, masked servers whisk plates draped in plastic to socially distanced tables separated by plastic screens, all beneath the hum of a ventilation system upgraded with UV filtration.

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7 Ways To Successfully Hack Instagram’s Algorithm

Lady Boss Blogger

If you’re using Instagram to market your business, then it’s important for the largest number of people to see your posts. For that to happen, you need to understand and successfully manipulate the current Instagram algorithm. So what is the current algorithm? First of all, the algorithm is simply computer code. This code analyzes a […]. The post 7 Ways To Successfully Hack Instagram’s Algorithm appeared first on LadyBossBlogger.

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Uber Claims 75% of Its Restaurateurs Would Have Closed Without UberEats

Restaurant Engine

According to a June survey of 400 U.S. and Canadian restaurateurs by pollsters at Technomic , “75% of operators said that they would have had to close their business if not for Uber Eats.” Although the poll’s language does not indicate whether “close” means permanently close or temporarily close, the result is nonetheless impressive given that 350 of the 400 respondents used third-party delivery services besides UberEats.

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Are These Three Persistent Myths Preventing You from Serving Gluten-Free Dishes?

Modern Restaurant Management

Over the last decade, demand for gluten-free foods has grown by an eye-popping 200 percent with two out of 10 Americans seeking gluten-free options when dining out. While many restaurants once viewed gluten-free dining as a passing fad, there is growing awareness that demand for gluten-free options is more than a trend. Eager to tap into a growing market, more and more restaurants are adding gluten-free items to their menus.

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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.