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Using Technology to Combat the Labor Shortage

Modern Restaurant Management

Every industry felt the impact of the labor crunch during the pandemic and now, as recovery efforts are underway, businesses are struggling to recover employees quickly enough to meet the rise in demand. Particularly impacted by the staffing shortage, restaurants are struggling to beat the labor crisis, with staffing shortages felt in both back-of-house and front-of-house staff.

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If You Want Free Advertising, Optimize Your Google MyBusiness Page

Indoor Media

Google My Business (GMB) is a free Google service intended for local businesses. This free tool offers numerous advantages for business owners looking to become more visible on the world’s largest search engine. More than just another method of promoting your company on Google, GMB allows you to improve your local marketing strategies by making your business more visible in local searches.

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Embracing Change to Survive and Maximise Food Service Sales

Future Food

EMBRACING CHANGE TO SURVIVE AND MAXIMISE FOOD SERVICE SALES. Australia’s two major cities have currently been in lockdown for over ten weeks with Melbourne now being in lockdown longer than any city in the world, 246 days so far and one month remaining. The prolonged closures on food and beverage venues have ranged from hard to devastating, not just from a sales perspective, but on the lives of hospitality workers and their families.

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Amid Hiring Apocalypse, a Cult Fave Chicken Chain’s Corporate Staff Is Being Forced to Work the Fryers

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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 Restaurants Can Avoid Friendly Fraud

Modern Restaurant Management

For the hospitality industry, the last 18 months have been very challenging. Walk down any street, uptown or downtown, and there are still numerous ‘closed’ signs on the front of restaurants and other service businesses. Many small business owners added online storefronts and delivery services to help sustain their business admidst vanishing in-store customers, but they now face a new economic threat – friendly fraud.

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Control prime costs and grow your margins with 7shifts and XtraChef

7 Shifts

The restaurant industry is unpredictable. There are dozens of costs associated with running a restaurant, and many of them remain out of your direct control: rent, utilities, insurance—etc. But the bulk of a restaurant's costs can be controlled. Those are your food costs and your labor costs , and together they make up your prime costs. Table of Contents.

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The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2021: The Full List of Winners

EATER

Chef René Redzepi of Noma at the 50 Best Restaurants awards | Photo by JONAS ROOSENS/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images. Noma takes the number one spot René Redzepi’s three Michelin-starred Noma has again ascended to the top of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list , a publication that attracts perennial criticisms for favoring expensive, male-run, Eurocentric tasting menu venues, and which has sent the expensive, tasting-menu only Noma in Copenhagen to the top of the on list four previous occasions.

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The New Normal: How Technology Can Help Streamline Restaurant Operations

Modern Restaurant Management

Last year, during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurants went through some unwanted but necessary changes. As a precaution, dining areas were closed and at one point, even eating al fresco was prohibited in certain areas. Fast forward a year later and the economy is recovering, albeit at a slow pace. However, in the process of resuming and continuing restaurant operations, operators need to take steps to lower the risk of infection among employees and customers and prevent the spread of

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Is it a Win-Win? Make Sure Your Food Suppliers are Grade-A

Hot Schedules

Blog. Is it a Win-Win? Make Sure Your Food Suppliers are Grade-A. F ood and beverage suppliers play a key role in the success of your restaurant. You pride yourself on sourcing the best ingredients with the partners who deliver reliably and at an effective cost. Like any new relationship, the beginning can be harmonious and productive, but it takes constant effort to ensure your food and beverage suppliers remain Grade-A.

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Our Favorite Houston Sushi Spots

Restaurant Clicks

Everything is bigger in Texas, and Houston may be the prime example. Not only is Houston the largest city in Texas, but it is also the most diverse city in the U.S. With such a culturally diverse population comes an equally diverse and incredible food scene. If anything puts Houston on the map, it’s the Medical Center, the Galleria, and most importantly, world-class restaurants.

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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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What to Make With ‘Vrimp,’ Nestlé’s Cursed New Shrimp Substitute

EATER

Ah yes, a colorful bowl of vrimp and chips. | Nestlé. How many vrimps do you have to eat // before you make your skin turn pink? // eat too much and you’ll get sick // vrimps are pretty rich Tuna might be the chicken of the sea, but it’s safe to say vrimp is the vicken of the — S**t, sorry, I blacked out for a minute there. Let me try again. You’ve obviously heard of shrimp, that small decapod crustacean that tastes uncannily like, you know, shrimp.

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Seven Enticing Restaurant Marketing Tips

Modern Restaurant Management

Whether you’re handling marketing for a chain restaurant, or just trying to heighten the visibility of your own local mom and pop diner, here are seven pro tips for restaurant marketing that will give your eating establishment a much-needed boost. Accurate Brand Personality Representation. Branding is everything, and that’s true across the board.

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Meet ChowNow’s New Order Better Network

ChowNow

Online ordering is essential to running a restaurant, but how and where your restaurant gets online makes a big difference. Catching customers’ attention on the websites they browse most frequently can have a significant impact on order volume. At ChowNow, we’re here to make it easy with an innovative network that places your ordering practically everywhere online.

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Our Favorite Pizzerias in NYC

Restaurant Clicks

New York City is one of the greatest cities in the world. It’s the Big Apple! The “city so nice, they named it twice.” If you’re planning a trip to New York City, you have to have pizza on the menu. NYC and pizza seem almost as inseparable as Bert and Ernie or salt and pepper. Most people think of the classic “dollar slice” shops with traditional thin-crust New York City pizza.

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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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Noma Named ‘World’s Best Restaurant’ — Again

EATER

Martin Kaufmann. And here’s every restaurant that’s topped the World’s 50 Best list This story was originally published on April 5, 2017, and has been updated to reflect the 2021 results. Noma, the acclaimed tasting menu restaurant helmed by chef René Redzepi in Copenhagen, landed at No. 1 on the 2021 World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. In 2019, the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list declared previous No. 1 winners ineligible.

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Controlling What You Can: Risk Reduction and Restaurant Technology

Modern Restaurant Management

Controlling the variables in the restaurant industry can feel like a game of whack-a-mole if you don’t have the right tools at your fingertips. Especially in a time where the industry is in flux because of the pandemic, juggling things like food costs, keeping shifts full and food safety can feel more difficult than ever. Fortunately, controlling the variables that can pose a risk to your business are within your grasp.

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Sculpture Hospitality Launches Brand-New Inventory Management App

Sculpture Hospitality

Sculpture Hospitality Launches Brand-New Inventory Management App to help Restaurants and Bars Manage Tight Margins as they Come Out of the Pandemic. Sculpture Hospitality - ( www.sculpturehospitality.com ) a global hospitality inventory management company, that combines both technology software with expert, local advice - has launched a brand-new inventory management app designed specifically to simplify the inventory management and ordering process for all hospitality businesses.

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Top Rated Bethlehem Restaurants You Need To Try

Restaurant Clicks

Founded in 1741 on Christmas Eve by members of the Moravian Church, Bethlehem, also known by its nickname “Christmas City,” became a center for colonial and mid-19th century industrialization, was home to the second-largest steel production company, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and hosts several annual music festivals, including the Bethlehem Bach Festival and Musikfest.

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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 market your hospitality business with pinterest

Typsy

Pinterest currently has 478 million monthly active users , marking a remarkable potential for extending your reach. If you have a hospitality business, you have come to the right place. Today, you can learn how to use Pinterest’s newest features to market your business in 2021. The hospitality industry covers all hotels, restaurants, casinos, events, cruises, entertainment, amusement parks, etc.

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How the Pandemic Has Changed Breakfast (Infographic)

Modern Restaurant Management

As they say, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But if we are being honest, many of us didn’t try to get up at 5 a.m. and climb Mount Everest. The pandemic shifted quite a bit of our morning routines, fueled in part by the lack of commute. This enabled many of us to (attempt) to sleep in and have a more relaxed breakfast. Now that some restrictions have been lifted, why not continue our habit of a better breakfast?

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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Restaurants & Recipes We Love

Cheetah

Reading Time: 4 minutes. Nothing says rich flavors and happy vibes like Hispanic Heritage Month! This year we celebrate Peruvian, Cuban, Mexican and all other Latin American cultures with 2 of our favorite restaurants in the Bay Area and 1 winner recipe to add to your menu. . Hispanic Is Our Culture. One of the reasons we love celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month so much is because it feels so close to home.

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Atlanta Steak Restaurants You Should Try Tonight

Restaurant Clicks

Atlanta isn’t short on delicious restaurants. From chic spots, seafood joints, American classics, and everything under the sun, Hotlanta has something for everyone. Even though there are more than enough places to satisfy you in the city, sometimes all you want is a juicy steak. If you were worried you would have limited options for enjoying a delicious steak in Atlanta, worry no more!

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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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Some Clever Ways to Boost Your Restaurant With QR Codes (Hint – They’re Not Just About Menus)

Restaurant Technology Guys

An accelerated shift towards contactless ordering and payment systems was just one of the many effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the restaurant industry. The post Some Clever Ways to Boost Your Restaurant With QR Codes (Hint – They’re Not Just About Menus) appeared first on Restaurant Technology Guys.

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Five Ways to Prepare for Flu Season

Modern Restaurant Management

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), since 2010, the flu has resulted in between 140,000 and 810,000 hospitalizations each year. To help prevent outbreaks and protect building occupants, GSF USA offers tips to consider for the 2021-2022 flu season. “As the pandemic continues, there has been increased worry about the upcoming flu season,” said Troy Bargmann, president, GSF USA. “Fortunately, there are simple steps that facilities can take in prepara

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56: Food Photography in Steve Vilnit's professional opinion

Food Business

Our guest is Steve Vilnit. He is known in the Chesapeake Food Shed for his deep knowledge in seafood, as well as farms. He knows the watermen and the farmers and has foster relationships between watermen and farms to chefs in the greater Baltimore region. After years working for the State of Maryland, and going above and beyond as a sales rep for JJ McDonnell (seafood) and Capital Seaboard (seafood and produce) he has taken a leap into photography.

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The Top Steakhouses Miami Has To Offer

Restaurant Clicks

Miami is a tourist hotspot, bringing in a domestic and international crowd looking for white sandy beaches, turquoise waters, tropical drinks, and spicy Latin nightlife. Miami welcomes gaudy extravagance, and everyone is invited to the party. A strong Latin American and Caribbean cultural presence and an upscale, flashy facade contribute to an opulent and unique restaurant scene.

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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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The Ghost Kitchen as a New Revenue Stream for Your Restaurant Group

Restaurant365

Ghost kitchens, commonly known as virtual kitchens, have experienced exponential growth in the last few years. The ghost kitchen segment was already around at the beginning of 2020, but the market became even more significant in the restaurant industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. As food delivery boomed, and on-and-off capacity restrictions changed indoor dining, the ghost kitchen business model became more widespread.

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Free Monthly Schedule Template, Plus Expert Scheduling Tips

Sling

Looking for a way to save time in your day so you can focus on making your business better? Create a monthly schedule template so your whole workforce management process goes quicker and smoother. In this article, the experts at Sling give you tips on how to make the best schedule possible and provide you with a free template to get started. Why Your Business Needs A Monthly Schedule Template.

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Taking Control of Restaurant Reviews | Season 5, Vol. 2: Review Trackers

Foodable

In the latest episode of Hospitality Hangout podcast, Michael Schatzberg “The Restaurant Guy'' and Jimmy Frischling “The Finance Guy'' chat with Chris Campbell, CEO at Review Trackers to explore the importance of restaurant reviews. Campbell founded Review Trackers over ten years ago and helps over fifty thousand restaurants in thirty-five countries track and manage their customer feedback from websites like Google, Facebook, and Tripadvisor.

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17 Syracuse Restaurants That You Need To Visit

Restaurant Clicks

Although Syracuse is famous for attractions like Rosamond Gifford Zoo and the Erie Canal Museum, it has a robust collection of exceptional restaurants as well. Moreover, when you’re visiting a city, one of the most important things to know is where the best restaurants are. If you’re ever wondering where to eat in Syracuse, New York, be assured that there’s a great eating establishment nearby.

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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.