7 Shifts
MAY 18, 2023
Restaurants are similar to spider webs. They all appear similar, but when you look closer each web is intricately woven in unique patterns. This is just like a restaurant, made up of its own interconnected components. Every department and all the operations around those departments need to work together seamlessly to ensure the smooth running of the business.
Embrace the Suck
MAY 14, 2023
Restaurants are more than just places to satisfy our hunger. They are the epicenters of culture, conviviality, and creativity. They are where we gather to celebrate life’s milestones, discover new flavors, and connect with our communities. As such, it's a tragedy when these establishments falter, collapse, or disappear, not due to a lack of talent, vision, or culinary prowess but because of a deficiency in leadership.
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Modern Restaurant Management
MAY 17, 2023
Born between 1997 and 2012, Generation Z is a demographic known for being tech-savvy and socially conscious. As one of the largest generations of consumers, they continually influence the ways restaurants innovate, and there are identifiable characteristics that differentiate Gen Z consumers from their older counterparts. Here are the biggest takeaways for how restaurants can engage with Gen Z in ways that create a competitive advantage.
Sculpture Hospitality
MAY 16, 2023
Running a restaurant can be a challenging endeavor, and managing labor costs is an essential aspect of keeping your business profitable.
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.
The Rail
MAY 15, 2023
What if I told you that your menu experience sucks and there is a technology that could fundamentally transform it to something truly spectacular? You’d certainly be interested in learning more. Well, that technology is called Augmented Reality (AR) and it delivers a complete reinvention of the way you present your menu to guests. Emerging technology has impacted almost every aspect of restaurant operations over the past 20 years.
Modern Restaurant Management
MAY 18, 2023
Accepting fast payments has, after all, always been crucial in hospitality businesses. If there’s a long line – in a cafe, a pub, or a restaurant, for example – customers need to be able to pay quickly and securely. Quickly – and securely. The advent (and continuing evolution) of contactless technology has ticked the first box.
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Modern Restaurant Management
MAY 15, 2023
Less than two decades ago, restaurant-quality meal delivery was largely limited to pizza and Chinese takeout. Today, the global food delivery app industry is predicted to reach $320 billion by 2029 — up from $140 billion in 2022. Consumers crave convenience. As such, implementing a robust food delivery and takeout service has become critical for restaurants’ longevity and success.
The Eat Restaurant
MAY 18, 2023
It’s no secret that our dining and spending habits have changed recently. The pandemic forced many restaurants to close their doors to the public, cementing the dine-at-home experience as one of the major trends in e-commerce.
Margin Edge
MAY 14, 2023
This post was written by Incentivio , the only fully automated intelligence-driven guest engagement platform for restaurants and virtual kitchens that increases retention, maximizes revenue, and enhances the guest experience for both first-time visitors and loyalists. As a restaurant owner or operator, you know that running a successful restaurant business is no easy feat.
Culinary Cues
MAY 17, 2023
It doesn’t make any difference what you choose to do or whom you choose to do it for – “good” is only a tease. Good is a “C” grade in life, an acknowledgement that you tried, but not hard enough. When you are good, in your heart you know that you could be better, but that requires some adjustment, more effort, maybe a few changes along the way. If you are “good”, it really means that you could be “GREAT”, and if you learn how to become great, you could have WORLD CLASS within your reach.
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
MAY 16, 2023
In today's fast-paced world, quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are constantly looking for ways to attract new customers while keeping their existing ones happy. One such method that has gained significant traction in recent years is the use of digital signage. By displaying menu items, offers, and specials on screens, QSR operators can effectively communicate with their customers and influence their purchasing decisions.
EATER
MAY 16, 2023
Photo by Joey Bryars Sommelier-entrepreneur Kristin Olszewski created Nomadica after noticing that young diners were choosing cocktails over wine — and noticing that even natural wines could be more environmentally friendly This story mentions sexual assault. As the first person in her family to go to college, Kristin Olszewski had a one-track mind in her early adulthood: She was going to be a doctor.
Restaurant Business
MAY 16, 2023
The fast-casual burger chain has appointed Domino’s former CFO Jeff Lawrence to its board and will hire an operational consulting firm to improve profitability.
7 Shifts
MAY 15, 2023
Eric Huang was born into the restaurant industry. His parents owned a Chinese restaurant in Queens, New York, and he felt like it was where he belonged. He started cooking professionally in college in some of New York City's most prestigious restaurants: Cafe Boulud, Gramercy Tavern, and Eleven Madison Park. When the pandemic forced restaurant shutdowns, Huang turned his uncle's Fresh Meadows restaurant, Peking House, into a fried chicken popup, also called Pecking House, albeit with a spelling
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.
Modern Restaurant Management
MAY 19, 2023
As extreme weather and climate change continue to make headlines, restaurant owners are recognizing the impact their commercial kitchens have on the environment, with their enormous quantities of waste and carbon emissions. According to the United Nations , the food sector (from production to consumption, including processing, transport and packaging) accounts for 30 percent of the world's total energy consumption and around 22 percent of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
EATER
MAY 16, 2023
Marylu E. Herrera From Thai vegetable gyoza to spanakopita, Eater staffers share their favorites from the TJ’s freezer section Trader Joe’s is a frozen-food oasis, renowned for the breadth, affordability, and generally consistent quality of its meals, sides, snacks, and desserts. If you wanted to, you could feed yourself entirely from its freezer section, from breakfast to dinner and beyond.
Restaurant Business
MAY 15, 2023
General managers from Noodles & Co., O’Charley’s and Endiro Coffee were selected as the top GMs in RB’s inaugural award.
7 Shifts
MAY 15, 2023
Did you know that payroll/labor makes up almost one-third of a restaurant's operating costs ? While most restaurateurs are experts in hospitality and customer service, payroll makes many savvy business owners scratch their heads. Understanding the ins and outs of paying employees, observing labor laws, and complying with the tax code is critical to running a business.
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.
Perfect Daily Grind
MAY 15, 2023
When it comes to brewing filter coffee, there are a seemingly endless number of variables to consider. Dose, yield, water temperature and quality, grind size , and total brew time are some of the most common, but what about filters? For many coffee professionals around the world, paper filters are a clear preference. This is because they tend to result in cleaner-tasting coffee with more vibrant flavours than other materials.
EATER
MAY 17, 2023
The ‘kind of good, kind of gross’ Minnesota sushi on ‘Somebody Somewhere.’ | Sandy Morris/HBO The dubious-looking ham, cream cheese, and pickle canape has recently shown up on “Jeopardy!” and HBO’s “Somebody Somewhere” I am a regional food obsessive originally from the Midwest. So when someone on a recent episode of the charming Kansas-set HBO comedy Somebody Somewhere showed up to a school event with a conversation piece appetizer I had never heard of called “St.
Restaurant Business
MAY 19, 2023
The Bottom Line: Operators have kept their foot on the pricing gas this year even as inflation shows signs of easing and profits improve. But with the economy nearing a recession, it’s time to slow down.
Open for Business
MAY 19, 2023
A small restaurant business plan is the roadmap you use to open a successful spot. As a first step to creating yours, ask your friends and colleagues to share restaurant business plan examples. Their restaurant business plan samples can inspire yours. Once you’ve studied those examples, it’s time to start writing your own. No matter how much thought you’ve put into your concept or how many trusted colleagues have assured you of its greatness, you must write a restaurant business plan.
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.
Perfect Daily Grind
MAY 17, 2023
On 16 & 17 March 2023, Producer & Roaster Forum (PRF) took place in El Salvador for the second time. The two-day forum was held at the Salamanca Exhibition Centre in San Salvador, and attracted thousands of international coffee professionals. Alongside a diverse range of lectures and panel discussions, the event featured workshops, cuppings, four competitions (including the first-ever Global Roasting Contest ), and the first-ever Global Coffee Awards.
EATER
MAY 17, 2023
Emily Chu For some restaurant owners, a pandemic pivot to frozen dumplings has created a promising new career path Everyone in food pivoted during the pandemic. But most haven’t found the same success that Jennifer Liao and Caleb Wang did after transitioning their Bellevue, Washington, restaurant, Xiao Chi Jie, into a thriving modern Chinese food brand of the same name.
Restaurant Business
MAY 18, 2023
A company apparently controlled by High Bluff Capital, the investment firm that owns the restaurant chains, is the stalking horse bidder for half of the 108 restaurants operated by Summit Restaurant Holdings.
Crunchtime
MAY 19, 2023
Brandon Blosser, Senior Manager of Process Innovation with Chipotle, is an accomplished operations professional with expertise in digital innovation automation and operations technology. He's served as the Senior Manager of Process Innovation at Chipotle Mexican Grill for over four years.
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.
Perfect Daily Grind
MAY 16, 2023
Every year, coffee professionals from around the world have the chance to compete and showcase their skills at one of the most celebrated events in the specialty coffee industry – the World Barista Championship. Like many other competitions in the coffee sector, the WBC relies on a number of sponsors to provide equipment, products, and funding to run the event.
Open for Business
MAY 19, 2023
Hospitality trends are constantly shifting, and there’s only so much a restaurant owner can do to predict what’s coming next. No one would have guessed that so many people would be working remotely in 2023, or that TikTok would become the next social media powerhouse. Still, staying on top of what’s new can help your restaurant stand out from the pack.
Restaurant Business
MAY 16, 2023
A chef in the South says he's been disqualified, and the resulting controversy has raised a debate, once again, about fairness of the awards process.
The Restaurant Group
MAY 16, 2023
It is not enough to simply have a refined taste, a talent for food creation, and a passion for the restaurant scene to build your own restaurant business from the ground up. Like any business venture, feasibility studies must be done to methodically develop and execute a plan and know if your business idea is even viable to begin with. A well-conducted feasibility study for a restaurant serves as a compass to guide your way toward your business goals and long-term vision.
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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