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7 Secrets to Scaling Your Restaurant Business

Restaurant Technology Guys

Unlock the secrets to scaling your restaurant business with our latest blog post! ? Discover 7 game-changing strategies for increasing efficiency, driving revenue, and improving customer experience, with a focus on leveraging technology. ? Whether you're a seasoned restaurateur or just starting out, this post is a must-read for anyone looking to take their business to the next level.

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Music Can Give the Restaurant Industry a Competitive Edge

Modern Restaurant Management

The restaurant industry is an increasingly competitive market. And more restaurant owners are searching for ways to encourage repeat customers and successfully grow their businesses. One way to gain a competitive edge is with music – which is often overlooked. Music can help restaurants strengthen relationships with their customers and build loyalty.

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5 ideas to steal from the global restaurant scene

Restaurant Business

A culinary conference in The Netherlands brought to light several innovative ways of riding the trends. Here are a handful that stood out.

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Top Free Restaurant Menu Makers

The Eat Restaurant

A well-thought-out menu is one of the most crucial elements of any restaurant, along with a table management system of course. Without a menu, there is no way for customers to know what they can order and at what price. It is essential though to have a menu that not only follows menu engineering best practices but also accurately reflects the personality of the restaurant.

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

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.

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Your Beginners Guide to Using a Bar Inventory App

Sculpture Hospitality

For bar owners and managers alike, keeping track of inventory can be a daunting task. Counting bottles, taking note of stock levels, and ordering new supplies can take up a significant amount of time and effort.

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What Do Guests Think About Dynamic Pricing?

Modern Restaurant Management

Dynamic pricing would add friction to the guest experience, according to Capterra’s 2023 Dynamic Pricing in Restaurants. Sixty-five percent of consumers say dynamic pricing would make the decision of where and when to eat more difficult; 63 percent say it would make it harder to budget their restaurant spending. The research indicates consumer sentiment on dynamic pricing is overwhelmingly negative, and that most customers are unlikely to utilize it in a way that benefits restaurants.

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Restaurant bookkeeping & accounting pain points: what operators should know

Margin Edge

CFO 1 Source, New Orleans

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7 Ideas to Increase Your Restaurant’s Website Traffic

Restaurant Engine

Check out these amazing tactics to drive people to your website. How’s your website traffic? Are you getting all the customers you want? Restaurants all over the country want similar things. The most important thing they generally want is more customers One key to increasing customers is to fine-tune your website and draw traffic to it. So, how can you do it?

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Save Your Restaurant by Saving Your Managers

Blue Orbit Restaurant Consulting

Save Your Restaurant by Saving Your Managers So much has been written about the effect COVID had on restaurant staffing. There was a mass exodus from the industry because hourly employees realized they were being underpaid with no benefits for exceptionally hard work. Expecting no change in the way restaurants were run, many never returned, … Save Your Restaurant by Saving Your Managers Read More » The post Save Your Restaurant by Saving Your Managers first appeared on Blue Orbit Restauran

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Save the Slice – America’s Pizza Legacy Is at Risk

Modern Restaurant Management

To say that small businesses, particularly those in the restaurant industry, have suffered over the past couple of years is an understatement, and unfortunately it doesn’t look like things are getting better any time soon. Strict pandemic restrictions on customers, a systemic labor shortage, serious supply chain problems, and skyrocketing inflation have already decimated local restaurants — and the threat of significantly higher taxes and more regulations and red tape from Washington

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Mid-Year Review: How to Ignite Employee Potential Through Meaningful Feedback

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.

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I’ve Had It With Stunt Ice Cream Flavors

EATER

Carrot cake and strawberry shortcake are perfectly lovely ice cream flavors. But ranch? Not so much. | Van Leeuwen The latest wave of pop culture-inspired collaborations leaves me with one question: What if we didn’t? Too often in human history (and in Jurassic Park ), we ask ourselves, “Can we?” when the real question worth asking is, “Should we?” Little else embodies this sentiment better than what is currently the bane of my existence as a person with taste buds: the latest wave of attention-

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How Restaurants Can Meet the Needs of Customers with Diabetes

The Rail

By Indiana Lee, Contributor Dining out is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Visiting a favorite restaurant with friends or family isn’t just a delight for the tastebuds, it’s also nourishment for the soul. And this, indeed, is often the reason why restaurateurs chose to enter — and to remain — in such a challenging and competitive industry. For restaurant owners and managers, there is nothing quite as gratifying as watching your guests relish the atmosphere and savor the delectables you’ve provi

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McDonald's franchisees may take their complaints to the FTC

Restaurant Business

Operators, saying they're being "held hostage" by customer survey standards and new ownership requirements, have hired an attorney and may influence franchise regulations. The company says it just wants to run good restaurants.

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Key Takeaways from the 2022 FDA Food Code

Modern Restaurant Management

In the waning days of 2022, FDA issued an updated Food Code with several important updates. FDA is responsible for more than a quarter of the U.S. economy, and the Food Code impacts virtually every American. According to FDA, the Food Code: represents the FDA's best advice for a uniform system of provisions that address the safety and protection of food offered at retail and in food service, and while it is a model code that is not required, it has been widely adopted by state, local, tribal

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What Your Financial Statements Are Telling You—And How to Listen!

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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How I Got My Job: From Nuclear Engineer to Cult-Favorite Seltzer Founder

EATER

Photos by Sanzo Founder Sandro Roco started Sanzo to expand the sparkling water industry beyond lemon-lime and grapefruit, celebrating Asian flavors like lychee, calamansi, and yuzu 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: Sandro Roco. Sandro Roco is not your typical consumer packaged goods creator.

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7 Reasons Why Restaurants Should Start Using QR Codes

The Rail

By Andrea Abbondanza, Contributor In today's fast-paced digital age, restaurants are constantly seeking innovative ways to enhance the dining experience for their customers. One such innovation is using QR codes , which are becoming increasingly popular in the restaurant industry. QR codes offer a convenient and contactless way for customers to access menus, order food, and pay using mobile devices.

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Are potential new 'joint employer' rules bad for franchisees? Maybe not

Restaurant Business

The Bottom Line: Robert Zarco, who now works with McDonald's franchisees, argues that a potential redefinition of the joint employer standard could reduce the level of control franchisors exert over operators.

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Senate barista unionisation hearing: What does it mean for specialty coffee?

Perfect Daily Grind

On 7 March 2023, the US Senate announced that Starbucks’ interim CEO Howard Schultz has agreed to testify at a hearing which will address over 80 complaints about the company’s anti-union behaviour. Schultz’s expected appearance at the hearing follows a near 18-month saga regarding unionisation among Starbucks’ baristas. In December 2021, a Starbucks in Buffalo, New York voted to become the company’s first-ever unionised store in the US.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

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.

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Kale Sauce Is a Way of Life

EATER

Shutterstock Simple, practical, and versatile, it’s whatever you want it to be I’ve been leaning into repetition in my cooking. To exist in the social media-fueled food space is to often feel compelled by the constant chase of novelty: There is always some new restaurant to try, or a viral dish to replicate. This inability to sit with familiarity can be tiring.

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Did Someone Say "Spring?"

The Wine Knitter

Daylight savings has begun, and spring is just around the corner! Fuedo Arancio vineyard in April. (Sicily) Photo credit: Penny Weiss As a rule, my mood dictates what wine to open, not the weather. And as I’ve mentioned many times in articles I’ve written, I’m not a “seasonal” wine drinker. I enjoy red, white, and rosé all year round.

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Sweetgreen wants to deliver your salads by drone

Restaurant Business

The fast-casual chain has signed on to test delivery by Zipline drones that promise to be quick, quiet and precise. "The closest thing to teleportation.

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Is there a difference between infused and flavoured specialty coffee?

Perfect Daily Grind

There’s no doubt that experimental processing methods have changed the trajectory of specialty coffee. Traditionally, coffee is processed using washed, natural, and honey processing methods. In certain Asian countries, other processing methods such as wet hulling (or Giling Basah) and Monsoon Malabar have also been in use for decades. However, now more than ever, there are a seemingly endless number of ways to process coffee.

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8 Pillars of Leadership Development

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.

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Best Sauces to Pair With Chicken

Bottleneck Management

Best Sauces to Pair With Chicken Chicken is the most consumed meat in the United States, according to the USDA. We can’t say we’re surprised, since chicken is so versatile. Fry it, grill it, boil it, bake it, or even spatchcock it for a variety of different meals. Then enters the real game changer, the sauce. Sauce can take a dish from mediocre to exceptional.

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Where to Get the Most Valuable Customer Feedback for Your Restaurants

Black Box Intelligence

Customers aren’t shy about sharing feedback on their restaurant experience with the brands that they interact with. Every experience along the customer journey is an opportunity for a person to comment, complain, criticize, compliment, or even congratulate. Ignoring that feedback isn’t an option – especially in today’s operating environment. For restaurants just starting to capture, analyze, and act on customer feedback, it’s important to know that there are several different forms of feedback

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Max Wetzel named CEO of Carl's Jr., Hardee's parent

Restaurant Business

The former Papa Johns operations chief will take over as CEO of CKE Restaurants for Ned Lyerly.

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98: Elusive term "Quality" with Meaghan Carpenter HEX Ferments

Food Business

The fourth pillar of a successful business is product & quality. Those words translate into a consistent and elusive practice of quality control within a business. Studying the Six Pillars of Success as a method for business owners to roadmap change and stability into their business. The Six Pillars are Brand Strategy, Financial Stability, Operations, Product Quality, Avenues & Distribution, and Hospitality.

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8 Pillars of Leadership Development

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.

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7 Restaurant Review Sites Owners Need to Monitor

The Restaurant Times

Restaurant review websites have a significant impact on how people perceive you. What do you do when a customer is hungry? They look you up on the internet to see what other people say about your restaurant. One study found that 60% of diners read online reviews before selecting a restaurant. Positive online reviews can dramatically change a restaurant owner’s fortune by drawing more customers through publicity.

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Tyson will close poultry plants in Virginia and Arkansas that employ more than 1,600

The Salt

Tyson Foods said it plans to close its processing, broiler and hatching operations in Glen Allen, Va., and a plant in Van Buren, Ark., in an effort to streamline its U.S. poultry business.

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After 90 years, Primanti Bros. is still evolving

Restaurant Business

A focus on tech has the 42-unit Pittsburgh icon behaving like a much younger and bigger brand.

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A GOOD DAYS WORK IN THE KITCHEN

Culinary Cues

An honest day’s work for an honest day’s wages is an American colloquialism that has been a call to arms for generations. What does it imply, what does it really mean, and how does it apply to today? On the surface this statement of fact implies that if you put in the effort, and do what is expected, then you can and should expect a fair wage for your effort.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

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.