Restaurant Business

APRIL 17, 2023

Technomic's Take: Regulatory requirements, ESG goals and local weather patterns will be the key drivers of major innovation in these restaurants.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 18, 2023

‘The times they are a changin’, proclaimed Bob Dylan in 1964. His words seem quite relevant today. The restaurant business is sometimes like the canary in the coal mine and at other times like the father of teenage children – the last to know. Everything is different since the pandemic, yet so many things are no different than they were 5 0 years ago.

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EATER

APRIL 20, 2023

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The Rail

APRIL 19, 2023

By Jill Goodwin, Contributor Visual branding is crucial for all businesses because it helps shape customers’ overall perception of your business. But in the restaurant and food industry, it’s even more important. We’ve all heard the phrase “ we eat with our eyes ” — and for good reason. This centuries-old expression holds an indisputable truth. People tend to connect with visuals far faster than they do with other forms of communication, such as text.

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Speaker: Lissa Bowen - Chief People + Culture Officer, Full Course Executive Director, Full Course Foundation

Employee burnout is a pervasive issue in the fast-paced and demanding restaurant industry, resulting in decreased productivity, high turnover rates, and compromised mental well-being. Effectively addressing this challenge requires a comprehensive approach that combines conventional management techniques, insights from neuroscience, and stress management strategies.

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Sculpture Hospitality

APRIL 18, 2023

In our recent blog, New Diner Trends Impacting Your Restaurant Inventory Strategy in 2023 , we discussed how - despite the fact that dine-in is back and as popular as ever - young diners prefer to order online.

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Crunchtime

APRIL 19, 2023

From fast-casual to full-service, restaurant guests across all formats are paying closer attention to how their favorite brands are offsetting the environmental impact of their operations. According to Forbes, 88% of consumers are more loyal to brands that support social or environmental issues. As a result, sustainability has become more than just a buzzword; it’s a driving factor for purchasing decisions and consumer loyalty.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 17, 2023

Most restaurants (76 percent) are currently using automation in three or more areas of operation and agree that certain roles are more automatable than others, according to Capterra research The survey also found that more than half of restaurant leaders say front-of-house restaurant workers can easily be automated with today’s technology, and nearly all restaurants today (96 percent) use automation tools in their back-of-house operations.

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Thrive POS

APRIL 17, 2023

In recent years, the demand for delivery services has skyrocketed, putting a strain on pizza restaurants to maintain a robust team of delivery drivers. Hiring and retaining drivers has become increasingly challenging, with many drivers preferring the flexibility offered by third-party companies such as DoorDash. Fortunately, DoorDash Drive and Thrive POS have joined forces to help pizza restaurants overcome these challenges and continue to provide exceptional delivery service to their customers.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 19, 2023

Text messaging is now mainstream for many restaurant and food retail businesses and their communications plans. And rightfully so. Research from Gartner has found 90 percent of all people read texts within three minutes of receipt, and notes that short message service (SMS) boasts a 98 percent open rate. It’s no surprise that restaurants big and small are tapping into text messages to reach their customers.

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Culinary Cues

APRIL 15, 2023

My town leaders, bless their hearts, try to figure out ways to strum up cash flow for small businesses. A tip of the chef’s toque for the good old college try. It’s early spring, mud season as it is commonly called, and they are putting in a Yeoman’s effort at organizing another restaurant week. All good intentions – they want to create full or partially full dining rooms for restaurants in need.

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7 Shifts

APRIL 21, 2023

What comes to mind when you think of success in the restaurant industry? A colorful TV personality or a renowned cookbook author? Not every restaurant worker wants to be a celebrity chef. Maybe you started your role as a part-time gig and want to explore what the industry has to offer. Maybe you realized hospitality is your passion. You can grow your career in restaurants and make it your profession.

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 18, 2023

Since the world’s first espresso machine was patented by Angelo Moriondo in 1884 , design has come a long way. Between becoming more sleek and modern and focusing on controlling espresso extraction, technology continues to evolve. Throughout this growth, precision has always been a guiding focus – and this continues to be the case. Now more than ever, coffee shops and roasters invest in high-quality, precise espresso machines for a number of reasons.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 20, 2023

Seattle-based Floisand Studio Architects has had a long-term partnership with Pagliacci Pizza including the thoughtful reimagination of the chain's newest location across from Seattle’s Ballard Locks. The original design is a heavy timber replica of a six-beam Haida house—a traditional style of building by the Haida Tribe—which opened in 1939 as a Native American curio shop before serving as a restaurant space starting in 1945.

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Artificial Intelligence continues to dominate conversations around technology. The transformative potential for this technology is massive. Virtually no industry is siloed from the possibilities of artificial intelligence, including restaurants. All new technologies come with a degree of uncertainty. Considering AI’s disruptive potential, many in the restaurant industry have feelings ranging from curiosity to concern regarding what these advancements might mean for the workers powering restauran

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MadMobile

APRIL 20, 2023

Social media is today’s most influential networking tool. However, sometimes managing social media marketing can feel overwhelming and almost like a second job. There is so much to learn, and right when you feel like you’ve caught up, new trends and apps emerge. That’s because social media platforms are advancing and growing every day. Platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and now Tik Tok can offer your restaurant promotional content that can help you build relationships one post at a

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Bingage

APRIL 15, 2023

Today shoppers trust reviews and recommendations before they trust a brand. They turn to their friends and seek out reviews before they even think of buying products from a brand they’ve never heard of. Bringing Influencers marketing for your Ecommerce business on board this traditional word-of-mouth marketing by tapping into a pre-build audience. Whether you choose Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, or YouTube?

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 21, 2023

Every Friday, Perfect Daily Grind rounds up the top coffee industry news from the previous week. Here are this week’s stories. Mon, 17 Apr Colombian chain Juan Valdez to open flagship store in Madrid in May 2023. The company’s new location will open in the Torre Caleido skyscraper, with plans to open more outlets across Spain in the coming months.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 18, 2023

Mark Brezinski has been heralded as "the father of Dallas’ fast casual food scene" He has opened more than 50 restaurants in the DFW area including Pei Wei Asian Diner, Bengal Coast, Velvet Taco and his newest venture Bizzy Burger Merchants. Brezinski chronicles his award-winning career and the drama behind the curtain is front and center in his new book called " ForkFight!

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EATER

APRIL 21, 2023

Eater The book offers a vivid portrait of midcentury regional cooking and a glimpse of its proudly idiosyncratic author If Clementine Paddleford, who reigned as food editor at the New York Herald Tribune from 1936 until the paper died 30 years later, had not been a real person, she could only have existed in a comic strip. Imagine, please, a woman with big blue eyes and fluffy blonde hair, dressed in flowing skirts and billowing capes like a proto-Stevie Nicks and accompanied by her cat/sidekick

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Restaurant Business

APRIL 20, 2023

Hear what operators and experts had to say about ghost kitchens and ChatGPT, takeout trends, the risks of cyber attacks, how to drive traffic and cultivating young leaders.

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 17, 2023

Over the past century, the coffee industry has evolved in a number of different ways. From the increasing reliance on technology to a growing emphasis on sustainability , there have been significant developments across all areas of the supply chain. This includes sourcing and trading green coffee. It’s fair to say that historically, the global trade of green coffee has typically favoured larger and more established importers and roasters.

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Modern Restaurant Management

APRIL 21, 2023

Restaurants and bars are often targets for robbery, burglary and theft , so much so that the FBI ranks restaurants as the eighth most common setting for violent crime and nearly half of cyber-attacks target small businesses. Because restaurants and bars can accumulate a large amount of cash during daily operations, they are attractive targets for criminal activity.

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Speaker: Joseph Guszkowski - Senior Technology Editor, Restaurant Business | Jay Ashton - National Brand Activation Manager, Sysco | Dan Maimone - Global Director of Customer Success Operations, Harri

ChatGPT has made a significant impact on the hospitality industry, particularly in restaurants, by revolutionizing customer interactions and improving overall experiences. With its natural language processing capabilities and vast knowledge base, ChatGPT acts as a virtual assistant, providing instant assistance and streamlining various processes. In the near future, ChatGPT will transform the hospitality industry by enhancing communication, improving efficiency, and elevating the dining experien

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EATER

APRIL 19, 2023

Megan Rizzo /Eater From freeze-dried Skittles to chamoy-coated Gushers, nostalgic candies are finding new life — and creating big business — on TikTok Like most of us who were bored out of our minds during the COVID-19 shutdowns in 2020, Nema Causey turned to TikTok. But the stakes were much higher for Causey, whose business, Candy Me Up, sold bulk candy to retail and wholesale clients.

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Restaurant Business

APRIL 20, 2023

A panel of executives shared advice on hiring, loyalty, robots and more during a crowdsourced session at the Restaurant Leadership Conference. And they weren’t afraid to challenge popular opinion.

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Perfect Daily Grind

APRIL 19, 2023

On Friday 21st April, this year’s Specialty Coffee Expo will take place in Portland, Oregon. The annual expo is one of the biggest – and most important – events in the global coffee industry. Thousands of people attend the expo every year, including roasters, producers, coffee equipment manufacturers, baristas, and coffee business owners. The event serves as a platform to bring coffee professionals together to forge new connections and partnerships – helping to drive the specialty coffee sector

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Lady Boss Blogger

APRIL 19, 2023

Businesses are vulnerable to a wide variety of threats. All business owners need to be proactive in their approach to dealing with these threats. That means that they need to identify these risks and find ways of managing them that are appropriate for their business type. If you do not do this, you could leave […] The post 4 Tips: How To Protect Your Business appeared first on Lady Boss Blogger.

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