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3 Steps to Get Your Business Ready for the Restaurant Reopening

Cheetah

Reading Time: 5 minutes. Last August, we reported on the new color-coded reopening plan that assigns California’s counties to 4 tiers based on the risk of viral transmission within the population. In May, the fantastic news we’ve all been waiting for finally came: San Francisco officially moved into the yellow tier (minimal risk), allowing indoor restaurants, bars, breweries, and wineries to reopen at 50% indoor capacity!

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5 technology trends to consider for your restaurant

Typsy

As your restaurant looks forward to offering in-person dining again, you may want to try innovative approaches to customer experience. With new safety regulations coming into force and new technologies becoming available, now is the time to adapt and change the way your venue operates. Even though investing in technology can be a little daunting at first, it will help improve your customer service as well as help your restaurant grow and succeed.

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Summer 2021 Food & Beverage Trends

Goliath Consulting

With the pandemic and climate change being hot topics in recent months, Summer 2021 will have guests wanting to see more healthy and sustainable items on their menu. As a result, there will be a significant push for plant-based dishes and those featuring natural and functional ingredients from elderberries to turmeric. Here we share some of the major food and beverage trends operators can expect this upcoming season.

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Does Your Small Business Need to Hire a Digital Freelancer?

Indoor Media

Let’s face it, a lot of work goes into running a business. Small business owners are asked to wear a lot of hats and manage many projects simultaneously. It’s okay to ask for help when you need it, mainly when that help will be used for a digital project outside your comfort zone. You may know every one of your regulars by name, which products sell, and when to advertise them — but a digital freelancer can still bring specialized information to the table.

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Planning Your Restaurants 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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Five Signs You Need to Switch from Excel to Scheduling Software

7 Shifts

We've all been there. Endless cells of names and shifts. On the surface, the natural organization of an Excel or Google Sheets spreadsheet makes sense for creating shift schedules. Once you take the time to make it, it looks nice and clean. You may even have it color-coded to make it easier to read. But once you put that schedule out into the world, it tends to break down.

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Reducing Restaurant Food Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

The EPA estimated that in 2018, the United States wasted 35.3 million tons of food. That is more than the equivalent of 155,000 Statue of Liberties. According to the food waste hierarchy pyramid, source reduction is the ‘best case scenario’ when it comes to food waste. Although, the many challenges brought about by the pandemic, have led the restaurant industry down a path that is beyond this phase.

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Content Marketing For Your Bar: Where To Start?

Next Restaurants

By Nancy Howard, Contributor. A bar is a treasure trove of aromatic dishes, drinks, and an extraordinary atmosphere. In real life, everything is exactly like that. But what impression do you make on the Internet? What do guests think about you when they look at your posts? If the content on social media doesn’t make someone want to swing by for a drink in the evening, it’s time to make it “tastier.”.

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What to Avoid When Looking for a Restaurant Job: 6 Red Flags

7 Shifts

On the latest episode of the 7shifts Restaurant Management & Growth Podcast, we had the opportunity to sit down with Jensen Cummings. He's a chef and the founder of Best Served Creative , a platform for hospitality works of all levels to tell their stories and make the industry better. We chatted about all things labor shortage, and ways that restaurants can position themselves better to attract staff that sticks around.

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Your Least Favorite Gross Viral Food Videos Are All Connected to This Guy

EATER

Molly Ford /Shutterstock. Whether it’s Spaghetti-Os pie or table-top nachos, everything can be traced back to (literal) magician Rick Lax Sometimes a meteorite will reach a velocity fast enough to traverse the vacuum of space, piercing Earth’s atmosphere and giving us a small glimpse of the unfathomably large and chaotic universe just beyond our own world.

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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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Why the Restaurant Industry Must Adapt its Hourly Hiring Practices

Modern Restaurant Management

The restaurant industry is poised to begin its recovery. For example, IHOP is planning to hire 10,000 new workers in the coming months to prepare for, “…a restaurant renaissance on the horizon.” But how exactly can they find these workers? Remember, it’s not just restaurants reopening and looking for talent – it’s hotels, sports and entertainment venues.

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Your Plan B for when the next COVID lockdown hits your cafe or restaurant

Ken Burgin

As COVID controls and vaccination helps business return to some type of normal operations, government policy in Australia and New Zealand now seems to be using selective lock-downs to control spot fires and outbreaks. Your Lockdown Plan B needs to be permanently at hand, so you can move within hours to protect your business, and alert customers, staff and suppliers.

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Saving Money with Cloud Kitchens

Restaurant Engine

Cloud kitchens are a cost-saving hack you want to be aware of. Technology, competition, customer needs, and evolving conditions today have led to the development of cloud kitchens. More and more of your restaurant customers are demanding online delivery. They want convenience and safety. Due to this, cloud kitchens , often known as ghost kitchens, are rising in popularity every day.

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The Unique Challenge of Reopening a Massive Restaurant Space

EATER

China Live in San Francisco | Patricia Chang. George Chen, owner of 30,000-square-foot China Live, visits Eater’s Digest Like many restaurant operators, George Chen faced one obstacle after another this year trying to keep his business afloat. But running what he deems the country’s largest mom-and-pop — the 30,000-square-foot Chinese food emporium China Live in San Francisco — came with some fairly unique challenges.

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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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Experiential Dining: The Journey Back to Joy (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

Experiential dining is the topic in this episode of The Main Course as host Barbara Castiglia spoke with Barry McGowan, CEO of Fogo de Chão. He shared how the brand pivoted and how they’re now expanding to deliver joy to customers. As a leader of the brand, McGowan explained they started innovating. “We introduced seafood, Brazilian brunch on weekends, new ways to create experiences.

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5 Customer Engagement Strategies for Small Businesses (With Examples)

Bingage

Are You facing less customer interaction? Don’t have an idea how to boost the rate of engagement? Customer engagement is all about converting a new customer into repeat customers, but… It’s not that much easy in such a competitive era where everyone is trying to capture more and more customers, so what is the measure you should adopt to stand ahead of the competition?

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Restaurant Inventory: Calculating Food Cost Variance to Boost Profits

Sculpture Hospitality

Restaurants are all about customer experience and sometimes it’s easy to forget that a restaurant is a business, and any successful business needs good accounting.

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Amid a "Labor Shortage," Are Restaurants Offering Enough?

Crunchtime

The battle is ON for hiring restaurant workers. And what a fierce battle it is. In a recent article posted by Restaurant Business Magazine's Peter Romeo , even as sales rebound from the pandemic-hammered levels of a year ago, restaurants of all stripes are struggling to ramp back up because they can’t recruit enough employees. Even with 1.8 million restaurant workers displaced by the crisis since February 2020, the industry’s labor crunch is back in full force—if not worse than it was before 202

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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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How to Elevate Guest Experience in the Age of COVID-19

Modern Restaurant Management

It’s easy for restaurant experiences to be impersonal and ordinary right now, with face masks and takeout containers dictating the nature of dining. With so much of a focus on health and safety, other details and levels of service are understandably pushed to the backburner. This presents an opportunity for foodservice operations to stand out by elevating guest experience in the age of COVID-19, giving consumers a sense of exceptional service and memorable experiences they used to source f

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5 Effective Restaurant Loyalty Programs, Plus Tips For Success

Sling

One of the best ways to keep customers coming back to sample your fare is to implement restaurant loyalty programs into your workflow. But what type of system is right for your business? In this article, the restaurant-management experts at Sling discuss some of the best ideas and give you tips for making your restaurant loyalty program great. What Is Customer Loyalty?

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Plan B for when the next COVID lockdown hits your cafe or restaurant

Ken Burgin

As COVID controls and vaccination helps business return to some type of normal operations, government policy in Australia and New Zealand now seems to be using selective lock-downs to control spot fires and outbreaks. Your Lockdown Plan B needs to be permanently at hand, so you can move within hours to protect your business, and alert customers, staff and suppliers.

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Federal Grants Programs for Shared Use Commercial Kitchens Supporting Local Food Systems

The Food Corridor

Bootstrapping a shared commercial kitchen is never easy. Especially if you are looking to make a difference in your local community, support small food businesses, or run educational programs. Happily, there are sources of funding out there for community-focused projects that aim to give something back to the local food community. Each year the federal government hands out millions in grants to organizations that can show that the money will be put to good use. .

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2024 Restaurant Spending Trends to Stay Ahead of the Curve

How do you stay on top of what your customers are expecting when they step through your doors? Do you know what’s on their mind? How are you going to account for what they’re planning on doing months from now? As we head into 2024, price-related issues are still top-of-mind for restaurant customers after the inflation boom earlier this year. In this new report, we give you the latest insights on consumer spending trends, attitudes on tipping, and how you can respond.

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Upping the Ante: This Week in Restaurant Staffing

Modern Restaurant Management

As part of its effort to hire 20,000 new team members, Chipotle is increasing restaurant wages resulting in a $15 average hourly wage by the end of June. McDonald’s will be raising hourly wages for more than 36,500 at McDonald’s-owned restaurants by an average of 10 percent. They are looking to hire 10,000 new employees over the next three months.

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The Ultimate Guide to Philadelphia Brunch

Restaurant Clicks

Ah, brunch. The amalgamation of breakfast and lunch. A special meal that is usually consumed on Saturday or Sunday with friends after a long work or school week. Brunch has always been my favorite meal of the day. I’m pretty obsessed with breakfast foods, but I’m not a big lunch person, so I’ll take any excuse to eat breakfast past 11:00 am. Although I’m usually an early riser, brunch also gives me that rare opportunity to sleep in, especially if everything is booked until 2:00 pm and I’m left e

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Calendar for Awareness and Celebration of Social Justice and Environmental Issues at your Cafe or Restaurant

Ken Burgin

There are special days and months all through the year, to celebrate and commemorate important themes and social issues. There may be ways to include them in the calendar of events at your cafe or restaurant, on social media or just as a reminder to staff. Customers respond very positively to your support for social issues. January – suggestions welcome.

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The Smart, Legal Way to Pay Your Restaurant Delivery Drivers

Thrive POS

Brian Schaaf knows a lot about restaurant delivery driver reimbursements. He became an expert the hard way - suffering through a grueling Department of Labor audit of 2 years worth of delivery payments to drivers for his multi-unit restaurant franchise. Now, Schaaf has taken that knowledge and turned it into software to help other delivery-focused restaurants avoid the pain he went through.

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2024 Payroll Calendar Templates

These calendars provide pay period dates and paydays for biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly payroll in 2024. Use them as a reminder or share with employees so they can celebrate payday.