The Rail
MAY 22, 2025
By Tracie Johnson, Contributor The restaurant industry thrives on flavor, atmosphere, and emotion, but none of this matters if no one knows you exist. In a sea of restaurants fighting for attention, raising awareness is not only vital but also rather helpful. Beyond the front door, the name of your restaurant, its atmosphere, and the narrative it tells should echo.
Web Diner
MAY 22, 2025
A packed dining room rarely happens by chance. Behind the clink of glasses and the hum of conversation, theres almost always a well-planned strategy pulling the strings. For todays restaurant and food business owners, crafting promotions and events isnt just about boosting sales for a nightits about creating momentum, telling your story, and giving guests a reason to remember you.
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Restaurant Business
MAY 20, 2025
A growing percentage of diners are eating their meals in their cars, thanks to social media and growing use of drive-thru and mobile order.
SpotOn
MAY 21, 2025
Last year , AI dominated the conversation. This year, it finally showed up to do the work. At the 2025 National Restaurant Association Show , one thing became clear: restaurant tech is entering a new era. We’re no longer in the hype cycle. Operators aren’t looking for the flashiest demo or the trendiest buzzword. They want results. They want technology that solves real problems and makes life easier behind the line.
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.
Black Box Intelligence
MAY 22, 2025
Key Takeaways What You Need To Know: Utilize Data to Understand Employee Turnover Enhance Training Programs Through Performance Metrics Implementing Predictive Analytics for Staffing Needs Personalize Employee Engagement Initiatives Align Operational Goals with Employee Performance Staffing a restaurant is hard. Keeping great people? Even harder. But what if data could help?
Restaurant Technology Guys
MAY 21, 2025
Introduction to Krish and His Mission In the bustling world of hospitality, maintaining operational efficiency while ensuring a seamless guest experience is an ongoing challenge. That’s where Know.AI steps in, spearheaded by its visionary founder and CEO, Krish Sridhar. With a mission to transform every frontline worker into a superhero, Know.
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Culinary Cues
MAY 22, 2025
You are the salt of the earth! I started Harvest America Cues Blog in 2013 at the encouragement of Chef Curtiss Hemm. The blog was meant to parallel the start-up of Harvest America Ventures Consulting. At the age of 63 (most of those years as a cook, chef, and culinary educator) I felt that I had enough experience, enough stories to tell, and a litany of success and failure to offer something of value to clients and readers.
Restaurant Business
MAY 20, 2025
Consumers are visiting restaurants less and shifting to lower priced drinks, but they still want alcohol to be part of the full-service dining experience.
Crunchtime
MAY 20, 2025
As we continue our series on improving restaurant profitability, we covered the importance of controlling labor costs, optimizing operations execution , and managing food costs. Well now focus on an often overlooked hidden profit driver: learning and development (L&D).
Modern Restaurant Management
MAY 19, 2025
Twenty years ago, hospitality looked very different. Kitchens ran on handwritten tickets and verbal handoffs. POS terminals were clunky, fixed to the counter, and limited to basic transactions. Front-of-house teams juggled high guest expectations with paper logs, manual reports, and legacy systems that weren’t built to keep up with the pace of service.
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.
ChowNow
MAY 23, 2025
You can have a crowd-pleasing menu, loyal regulars, and a packed dining roomand still watch your margins disappear. Why? Because not every dish thats popular is profitable. Too many restaurant menus are built on intuition and aesthetics, not real numbers. If youre making decisions based on gut instinct or what feels right, youre guaranteed to be leaving money on the table.
Restaurant Business
MAY 21, 2025
Black Box Intelligence (BBI), one of the restaurant industrys most trusted names in performance data and analytics, last month acquired Yumpingo, a leading guest experience management platform.This strategic move is set to reshape how restaurants manage their operations and customer experience delivering deeper insights and faster, smarter decision-making.The acquisition is a critical milestone in BBIs broader vision: building the AI Command Center for Restaurants a centralized intelligence hu
Culinary Cues
MAY 22, 2025
Its the proverbial glass half full or half empty scenario. How you approach life is typically evident in everything you do from caring for your health, to relationships, to your work, and even your purpose. Do you seek sunshine or darkness? To you relish a smile or simply accept a frown? Do you have hope or are you filled with angst and a dim view of what lays ahead?
Modern Restaurant Management
MAY 23, 2025
Cyberattacks aren't limited to corporate offices. Restaurants are increasingly targeted for data breaches, with significant financial and reputational consequences. Implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is a vital step in bolstering your restaurant's cybersecurity posture, ensuring only authorized personnel access sensitive data and critical infrastructure.
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.
ChowNow
MAY 23, 2025
When you decided to open a restaurant, you probably didnt picture yourself glued to spreadsheets or tracking the price of eggs, but keeping an eye on the numbers is how you stay open year after year. Those numbers, or KPIs , decide whether the lights stay on, the staff gets paid, and the dream stays alive. The truth is that the average restaurant profit margin is razor-thin, leaving almost no room for error.
Restaurant Business
MAY 23, 2025
The fast-food giant will instead introduce beverages from the test concept into hundreds of McDonalds restaurants as a test this year. The CosMcs restaurants will start closing in late June.
EATER
MAY 22, 2025
Saloons, slot canyons, pan roasts, and painted boulders your road map to eating and exploring Nevada Meet the new Old West Nevada became a state in 1864 months before a saloon in a town called Genoa posted a wanted sign for Abraham Lincolns then-unknown assassin, four years before the transcontinental railroad stitched the state to the rest of the country, and five years before the first major silver strike in the U.S. sparked a rush that built Virginia City nearly overnight.
Modern Restaurant Management
MAY 23, 2025
Per the National Restaurant Association , 46 percent of restaurateurs reported a net increase in customer traffic from January 2024 to January 2025. Also rising? Cybersecurity threats in the restaurant industry. How Cybercriminals Exploit Third-Party Vendors to Attack Restaurants As online ordering continues to triumph and restaurants become more digital, opportunities for cybercriminals increase.
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.
Crunchtime
MAY 23, 2025
Are these 3 issues undermining your restaurant's inventory accuracy? From deliveries and data entry to transfers and reporting, inventory management in restaurants is full of moving parts. Its no surprise that even small missteps can quietly create big problems. Worse, these errors often go unnoticed until the numbers dont add up, food costs spike, or reporting becomes unreliable.
Restaurant Business
MAY 22, 2025
It's the second state to adopt a Restaurant Reservation Anti-Piracy Act, designed to stop the unauthorized sale of bookings. New York was first to make the move last year, and similar bills are pending in California, Illinois, Louisiana, Hawaii and Nevada.
EATER
MAY 21, 2025
Makubi Safari Camp While operators have historically served Western cuisines, a handful of modern safaris are offering local cuisines and native ingredients to immerse guests fully in their stunning surroundings A safari in Africa is about more than wildlife encounters. Its an immersion into the histories, cultures, and landscapes of the host nations.
Modern Restaurant Management
MAY 20, 2025
The Value Wars continue to shake up the dining industry, increasing competition for the same share of stomachs. For fast casual chains, competition includes usual suspects like casual dining and QSRs as well as c-stores and grocery chains who are ramping up foodservice offerings to capitalize on the trading down trend. FCRs that have beefed up their “Marketing Value Meal” are emerging victorious.
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.
Lavu
MAY 23, 2025
Thinking about launching your own deli in 2025? Youre not alone. With the growing demand for fresh, made-to-order meals and local favorites, starting a deli can be a smart and rewarding business move. But success depends on more than just great sandwiches. If youre wondering how to open a deli that stands out in a competitive food market, this guide walks you through every critical step from business planning and licensing to choosing the right equipment and location.
Restaurant Business
MAY 23, 2025
Working Lunch: In this week's political podcast, Aaron Frazier of the National Restaurant Association breaks down how the tax and spending bill approved by the House could impact the industry.
EATER
MAY 21, 2025
Camp Denali | Murray Cohen Operating a full-time bakery in the backcountry of Denali National Park was an opportunity to step out of the confining rhythms of modern life This time last year, I was living in New York City, working what Id once considered to be my dream job as a food writer at a major publication. Each day I commuted 30 minutes underground to a big, shiny glass tower, sat at a desk, and wrote about pancakes.
Modern Restaurant Management
MAY 22, 2025
In the food service industry, branded apparel is a critical extension of your business's identity. The uniforms worn by staff, from kitchen to counter, represent your brand in every customer interaction, making apparel a strategic business decision rather than merely an operational requirement. Thoughtful selection of branded gear, including t-shirts, polos and hats, ensures a professional, cohesive look while also reinforcing your establishment’s unique personality.
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.
Lavu
MAY 23, 2025
Is your staff constantly battling long wait times, confused orders, or slow transactions? It might not be the teamit could be your tech. If your POS system is slowing down your restaurant , you’re not just dealing with minor annoyances; you’re risking lost revenue, poor customer experiences, and operational chaos. In today’s fast-paced dining environment, even a few seconds of lag can create a ripple effect that impacts your entire service flow.
Restaurant Business
MAY 22, 2025
The Bottom Line: The supply of workers is strong enough that restaurant chains can expand hours and go on hiring sprees. But limits on immigration could stop that.
EATER
MAY 22, 2025
Lille Allen/Eater Whether its in cocktails or marinades, fruit preserves can lend complexity and flavor to many different dishes Theres a half-empty jar of apricot preserves in my fridge thats nearly as important to me as the milk or eggs. I reach for it constantly, the bright orange lid and shimmering glass studded with fingerprints as proof. And I dont use it just for obvious applications like toast or a buttered biscuit, but also for cocktails, cakes, savory sauces, and even the occasional sp
Modern Restaurant Management
MAY 21, 2025
Operational efficiency is paramount in restaurants. From the front-of-house ensuring a pleasant dining experience to the kitchen crew keeping up with orders and maintaining sanitized facilities, every process needs to run smoothly. Even minor disruptions can impact the entire team and the diner experience. Investing in a reliable restaurant hot water system is crucial to avoid such disruptions and ensure consistent access to hot water when needed.
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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