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How To Improve Your Restaurant Operations

BNG Point of Sale

Owning a restaurant requires a mix of delicious food and drinks, reliable service, and efficiency in your operations. Hitting the right balance is an ongoing challenge for the restaurant industry. As a restaurant owner yourself, you may be confused about how to achieve it all. The good news is it’s possible. There are ways to improve operations in your restaurant and achieve the profits you need.

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7 Creative Ways to Use Videos to Promote Your Restaurant

Restaurant Engine

Video is king this year, and you’ll reap its benefits. Video marketing is here to stay. In fact, video marketing is key to your restaurant’s success this year. What’s more, according to one study , 54% of consumers want to see more video content from a brand or business they support. And this holds true for your restaurant. Today’s digital arena is focused on interesting, catchy, and unique videos that draw customers in.

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A Quick Recap of Restaurant Marketing Trends

Indoor Media

Today, there are thousands of restauranteurs around the country just trying to get one step ahead of their competition. For small business owners, it’s especially important to make sure you’re putting the same effort into marketing your business as you put into daily operations. One way to simplify this cycle is to research and identify restaurant marketing trends in your area.

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How Restaurants Evolve in the War for Talent in 2021 and Beyond

Modern Restaurant Management

As we continue to move past the fallout from the pandemic there will be a growing reliance on technology within every aspect of the operation and companies can be ready to take advantage, but they must start now or be left behind. Outside of adapting new technologies to tackle ordering and delivery, one area that is evolving and showing great promise is in the war for talent.

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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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How to Buy a Restaurant: An Ultimate Guide

7 Shifts

So you want to open a restaurant. Maybe it’s to take your grandmothers’ recipes to the masses. Maybe you want to share your love of tacos with the world. A place to call your own, perhaps? The dream of opening a restaurant is held by many, and it hasn’t been sullied by the pandemic. Despite the unfortunate closures, new restaurants are opening every day, and at rates close to what they were prior to March of 2020.

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The Limits of the Lunchbox Moment

EATER

Not all children of immigrants grew up embarrassed about their food, but pop culture convinced them they should be “Booger-gi” is what the kids call Justin’s bulgogi in The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig, a picture book published in 2013. Justin is new, and when the other kids make fun of his food and his chopsticks, Brian, a shy, lonely white boy who longs to be included by his classmates, decides to leave him a note, telling him he isn’t like those kids; he’d love to try bulgogi.

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Digital Marketing Tips to Attract More Valentine’s Day Diners

Modern Restaurant Management

The National Retail Federation estimates that 41 percent of consumers will celebrate Valentine’s day with a special dinner or celebration at home. Valentine’s Day is often a busy time for restaurants, but many are now dealing with various challenges amid the pandemic, like no indoor dining or limited capacity as well as more customers opting for carry out.

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How to Buy a Restaurant: An Ultimate Guide

7 Shifts

So you want to open a restaurant. Maybe it’s to take your grandmothers’ recipes to the masses. Maybe you want to share your love of tacos with the world. A place to call your own, perhaps? The dream of opening a restaurant is held by many, and it hasn’t been sullied by the pandemic. Despite the unfortunate closures, new restaurants are opening every day, and at rates close to what they were prior to March of 2020.

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Pizza Babka Is All Over Instagram Right Now. Bill Clark Is Why.

EATER

Hunter Abrams /courtesy Bill Clark. The former MeMe’s Diner chef and co-owner explores whimsical recipes in his newsletter that makes cooking fun again If you were frantically searching through mentions and scrolling past videos of people making “pizza babka” a couple of weekends ago, you weren’t alone. It seems like everyone has suddenly been brushing garlic butter over golden-brown loaves stuffed with cheese and pepperoni: It’s a perfect viral dish, really, an effortless fusion of two comfort

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Explaining the neighbourhood coffee shop: “More than coffee and sandwiches”

Perfect Daily Grind

In 2018, there were about 24,000 coffee shops in the UK with a collective market value of approximately £9 billion. This number was projected to rise to over 30,000 by 2020, along with an increase in value of more than 50% to £15 billion. While exact figures are unknown, today approximately 6,500 across the country are defined as independent (somewhere between 21 and 27%).

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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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How to Schedule Social Media Ads to Run When People Are Hungry

Modern Restaurant Management

Facebook and Instagram are powerful advertising tools for any restaurant wanting to reach people in their community or tourists traveling through their area, whether to increase indoor dining numbers or, in today's climate, driving more pickup and curbside orders. With many options available to restaurateurs to advertise the social posts one option which is often overlooked or is simply unknown is what we call dayparting, the ability to schedule a post or ad to run on set days and within set

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Experience the Experience

Future Food

Adam D'Sylva’s Lollo Restaurant Image Via Delicious. Food and Entertainment driving immersive experience. Australia’s food and beverage operators have been striving to return their businesses to some degree of normality in order to drive sales, stabilise costs and prepare themselves for the imminent financial obstacle of Job keeper payments ceasing in three weeks’ time.

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You Should Be Drinking Grower Champagne

EATER

Grower Champagnes are a little wilder and lot more compelling than your average Champagne If you’re fortunate enough to have a reason to reach for a bottle of Champagne these days — a time when the very thought of celebrating remains complicated by world events — you best make it count. But if the world of wine seems baffling (and it definitely can be), Champagne, with its high price tag and even higher expectations, is pure, unfiltered intimidation.

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Why Successful Bar Inventory Requires Both Tech and Expert Support

Sculpture Hospitality

Taking bar inventory can be time-consuming and frustrating. Yet most hospitality businesses are still using inefficient and ineffective manual spreadsheets to complete their bar inventory management.

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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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Long Live Digital Dining: How Consumers’ Appetite for Mobile Apps and Online Ordering Will Continue

Modern Restaurant Management

Mobile orders were expected to drive $38 billion in restaurant revenue in 2020. And more than 50 percent of consumers with restaurant apps use them at least once a week. What’s more, digital consultancy Mobiquity in June 2020 reported a 36 percent year-over-year increase in the number of restaurant mobile app reviewers who said it was their first time using such an app.

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Common Hourly Payroll Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Hot Schedules

Blog. Common Hourly Payroll Mistakes & How to Avoid Them. Learn how payroll processing mistakes can hurt your business. H andling payroll in a hospitality or retail business is a complicated and often thankless task. But it’s incredibly important to get it right, because payroll processing mistakes can hurt your business in more ways than one. Sure, there are the obvious (and numerous) compliance requirements outlined by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), but payroll errors can also rippl

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DoorDash has acquired salad-making robot company Chowbotics

EATER

Salad vending machine company Chowbotics is now part of DoorDash. DoorDash has acquired salad-making robot startup Chowbotics, the companies announced Monday. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but the Chowbotics team have all become DoorDash employees, and the company will operate independently within DoorDash. “We have long admired the work that Chowbotics has done to increase access to fresh meals, with its groundbreaking robotics product and vision,” DoorDash co-founder Stanley T

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??3 “Secrets” For Remote Wine Tasting You’ll Love

A Wine Story

Can Remote Wine Tasting Kits Save the USA Wine Industry? According to the Silicon Valley Bank’s Wine Division 2021 State of the Industry report, restaurants and tasting room sales made up about 43 percent of the average USA winery’s sales prior to April 2020. Government issued shelter-in-place orders, closing both channels. Wineries scrambled to replicate the in-house winery experience online to stay financially solvent.

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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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How to Create an Engaging Web Design for Your Restaurant 

Modern Restaurant Management

As a restaurant owner, you’ve put some serious thought into your interior design, menu development and ambience creation to make your guests feel comfortable and attract more people to visit. But have you thought about your website design? Your restaurant website needs to help your guests find you online, inform them about your menu and, possibly, help them reserve a table or order a delivery directly from you.

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Restaurant server training: top 10 etiquette tips

Typsy

Providing great service in a restaurant isn’t just about ensuring customers receive their meal on time or smiling as you take their order. It’s also about the little actions you take throughout their time in your venue. Everyone has had a bad experience while dining out – whether the server was rude, the food wasn’t quite right, or the atmosphere was a little off.

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Guy Fieri Is Operating Ghost Kitchens Out of a Handful of Boston Area Bertucci’s

EATER

And diners can (predictably) order jalapeño poppers wrapped in bacon, and burgers topped with mac and cheese [link].

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A guide to coffee culture in Medellín

Perfect Daily Grind

Located in a narrow valley between two Andean mountain ridges, the Colombian city of Medellín is a thriving metropolis that is home to more than two and a half million people. Thanks to its temperate, pleasant climate, it is also known across Colombia as la ciudad de eterna primavera , or the City of Eternal Spring. Like many cities across Colombia, Medellín has a strong coffee culture, from the bitter, intense tinto served on street corners to its rapidly-growing range of specialty coffee shops

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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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Rising Fraud Among Restaurant and Delivery Services (Infographic)

Modern Restaurant Management

A fraud scheme where cybercriminals leverage the Telegram messaging platform to steal from restaurants and food delivery services was just identified by research and analysis from Sift’s Digital Trust and Safety Architects. The company discovered that bad actors are advertising their services on Telegram forums in order to purchase food and beverage orders at a reduced price, using stolen payment information on behalf of customers.

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Upgrade Your Online Ordering | Season 2, Vol. 10: ChowNow

Foodable

In the latest episode of the Hospitality Hangout podcast, Michael Schatzberg “The Restaurant Guy” and Jimmy Frischling “The Finance Guy” sit down with Chris Webb, the chief executive officer and co-founder of ChowNow , to explore how restaurants today are enhancing and elevating their online ordering system. Founded in 2011, ChowNow is an online ordering platform dedicated to helping local restaurants connect and form relationships with customers.

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Michelle Obama’s ‘Waffles + Mochi,’ a Culinary Kids Show, Will Premiere March 16 on Netflix

EATER

Michelle Obama’s new show stars herself and anthropomorphic creatures Waffles and Mochi. | Photo: Adam Rose/Netflix. The 10-episode series stars the former first lady as a friendly supermarket owner who embarks on food-inspired adventures with a couple of puppet friends Michelle Obama’s long-awaited kids food show has a new title and a release date: Waffles + Mochi will debut on Netflix on March 16, the former first lady announced on social media this morning.

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How to use QR Codes for restaurant marketing and management – dozens of easy examples

Ken Burgin

Everyone understands QR codes, now that they’re compulsory for COVID check-ins. Pont your smartphone camera at a QR code, and it will be read and a website or app opens. In fact QR codes have been around for many years, and widely used in Asian countries – now that they’re understood here, you can start to leverage them for restaurant & cafe marketing, recruitment and daily operations.

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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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Four Ways to Improve Your Gluten-Free Marketing Campaigns

Modern Restaurant Management

Demand for gluten-free products continues to grow, with 15 percent of consumers surveyed looking for gluten-free options when dining out, according to a 2020 report by market research firm Mintel. Heeding this demand, more than a quarter of US restaurants now offer gluten-free dishes, but many establishments aren’t promoting these offerings as effectively as they could.

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Restaurant Technology Guys Podcast Ep. 108 – Managing Outdoor Comfort with Technology

Restaurant Technology Guys

Jeremy is joined by Tracy Christmann, Marketing Communications & Digital Director of Somfy and Calvin Gray, VP of Marketing/Business Development of StruXure where they talk about how to use your outdoor space 12 months of the year no matter the weather. StruXure – Case Studies | Stories From Our Clients. The post Restaurant Technology Guys Podcast Ep. 108 – Managing Outdoor Comfort with Technology appeared first on Restaurant Technology Guys.

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NYC Restaurant Workers Rush to Get Vaccinated As Eligibility Opens

EATER

A vaccination center at Yankee Stadium in New York | Photo by Liao Pan/China News Service via Getty Images. From the Editor: Everything you missed in food news last week This post originally appeared on February 6, 2020 in Amanda Kludt’s newsletter “From the Editor,” a roundup of the most vital news and stories in the food world each week. Read the archives and subscribe now.

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Tips for Improving Restaurant Employee Retention During a Pandemic

Restaurant365

2020 was a challenging year for restaurants. On the sales side, there have certainly been fluctuations in business as local public health restrictions changed and customer behavior shifted. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has also presented new challenges for food and labor costs. For your labor cost in particular, hiring and retaining quality restaurant employees has gotten more complicated.

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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.