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7 Restaurant Management Tools for Maximum Productivity

7 Shifts

The role of a restaurant manager is always in motion. There’s always something else to get done, a new fire to put out, new fixes to make. All of that on top of the everyday tasks from scheduling to payroll to reporting can catch up to you. But there are a number of different tools to help you manage your restaurant—from single shifts and tasks to top-level overviews that show you the health of your business.

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Bar Inventory Best Practices: How to Prevent Overpouring

Sculpture Hospitality

In our last blog , we discussed how liquor shrinkage (also known variance) can have a huge impact on the profitability of your bar.

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Ghost Kitchens Are Taking Over the Foodservice Industry: Here’s What You Need to Know

Cheetah

Reading Time: 4 minutes. Stay tuned for the next chapter in our Ghost Kitchen 101 series! The restaurant industry is one of those most devastated by Covid-19. Thousands of restaurants have already permanently closed, and those that haven’t are left struggling to cover the rent with reduced revenue flows. It is easy to conclude that, with the growing demand for online food delivery, high real-estate costs, and thinning margins, the small restaurant model will become unviable in a post-Covid-19 wo

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CHEF – A PATH TO GREATNESS

Culinary Cues

The first question is always: “Do you want to be great?”, followed by: “Are you willing to put forth the effort to be great?”. Let’s assume that the desire to be great is innate – a desire that we are born with – a desire that can either be nourished or squashed. This desire is a spark of enthusiasm to accomplish goals, exceed expectations, know no barriers to entry, and reach for the stars.

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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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Digital Solutions Keep Restaurant Doors Open

Modern Restaurant Management

Throughout her career, Ellen Linardi has been driven by the passion to build products that help small businesses hold their own against big companies.That desire fueled the Global Head of Product for Clover and her team to help restaurant owners struggling during the pandemic pivot operations and compete in the now digital-first world. In just three weeks, they created a native solution that allowed Clover restaurant merchants to enable online ordering for delivery or curbside pickup.

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Does the ghost kitchen model suit your business?

Deliverect

Everyone’s talking about the advantages of ghost kitchens – purpose-built production units, also known as dark kitchens or virtual kitchens, that use data to optimize for delivery. They allow businesses to avoid front-of-house overheads, reducing costs while increasing revenue by reaching new off-premise customers. By the way, if you’re asking yourself, “What is a ghost kitchen?

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Bar Inventory Management: How to Reduce Liquor Shrinkage

Sculpture Hospitality

Bar inventory management is a crucial aspect in understanding exactly how your business is performing compared to your key performance indicators (KPIs). The insights your bar gains from accurate inventory reports can help to drive up the profitability of your business.

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One Year Later: Are We Still Turning Tables on Pay-at-the-Table?

Modern Restaurant Management

Tech has taken its seat at the table – literally. Pay-at-the-table proved its value through the pandemic and breathed new life into old technology like QR codes. However, can innovation teach these old dogs new tricks, or will a post-pandemic environment sunset this trend? The Quintessential QR Comeback. QR codes were invented in the 90s but didn’t pick up steam until 2011 – when smartphones became the ubiquitous devices they are today.

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How To Use Clubhouse To Grow Your Business

Lady Boss Blogger

Clubhouse is a social media app that came out in May of 2020. Currently, it’s available to those with iOS and is invite-only. The app lets you join or create chat rooms that focus on a wide range of topics. Conversations are audio-only, and, similar to Snapchat, chats disappear forever as soon as they finish. […]. The post How To Use Clubhouse To Grow Your Business appeared first on LadyBossBlogger.

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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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The Contemporary Roles of Women in Tea; Focus on Nepal

T-Ching

Introducing a new feature – a video interview with a contributing author. . A New View of Women In Tea. Growing up in Nepal (a very male-dominated society) in a household of 6 sisters, I realized my brother and my privilege as males early on. From simple things such as the kind of clothes we wore to the kind of societal norms we had to follow, it was quite distinct that I had a lot of advantages over my sisters even though I was the youngest.

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Restaurant Credit Card Fraud & Chargebacks: What Operators Need to Know

ChowNow

The recent closure of a popular Los Angeles restaurant, Spoon by H, surprised many of its loyal patrons. It’s always sad to see a restaurant close its doors, and so many have had to call it quits due to the endless challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. But what shocked customers was the specific reason that Yoonjin Hwang, the chef of Spoon by H, gave for the closure: credit card chargebacks.

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Contactless Ordering Isn’t Going Anywhere — Here’s How to Make the Most of It

Modern Restaurant Management

The pandemic has created unprecedented demand for online ordering platforms. Customer demand for delivery is 135 times higher than before COVID-19, according to Yelp. As a result, restaurants that have historically relied on in-person dining have either scrambled to create their own food ordering apps or have leaned on third-party services to do it for them.

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Mobile Pay-at-Table: A Contactless Solution

Focus POS

5 Reasons Why Restaurants Need Contactless Mobile Pay-at-Table Solutions. With vaccines rolling out, 2021 will hopefully be the year that restaurant operations can resume as normal. However, as states open back up, restaurants will face staffing issues, as much of the population won’t be vaccinated yet and won’t want to risk working in restaurants where risk is high.

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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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Warmer Temperatures Could Mean More Grapes for Midwest Winemakers — but Also More Bad Weather

EATER

For Midwest winemakers, higher temperatures mean more opportunities to grow different grape varieties — but bring a new slew of challenges. After 11 years as a coastal science and policy specialist in Boston, Chantal Lefebvre and her husband Mike Newman moved to Northwest Michigan in 2007 to be closer to family that’d recently relocated there. With no particular plans, Lefebvre thought it was her chance to reinvent herself.

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Restaurant Trends: What to Cash In On and Why

Indoor Media

Look, whether you love avocado toast or not, the trend came and conquered. Those restaurants that were able to cash in on the quick, millennial food made serious profits off a loaf of bread, so it’s important to take advantage of trends wherever you can. Adopting trends can often trigger a question of integrity. Some restaurants steer away from popular options because they don’t align with their brand voice.

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Don’t Be Chicken – How to Win the Chicken Wing Shortage

Modern Restaurant Management

This edition of MRM's "Ask the Expert” features advice from Buyers Edge Platform. Please send questions to Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia at bcastiglia@modernrestaurantmanagement.com. Q: What are some go-to solutions for the chicken wing shortage? A : It’s been a year since the pandemic started and the world witnessed a shortage in toilet paper, hand sanitizers and grocery store staples.

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Best Sales Enablement Solution for Foodservice Teams

Cheetah

Reading Time: 3 minutes. Whether you’re managing a high-volume distributing operation, or a wholesale warehouse, chances are your sales reps are wasting time and losing money on poor prospects. On average, 50% of all sales calls end with no results. That means that half of your investment in a sales rep salary has zero ROI. There are many reasons why sales reps fail to generate as much profit as you’d hope.

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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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Business Partnerships – A Strategic ‘Food Focussed’ Approach

Future Food

Most industries and sectors are seeking ways to ensure the customer experience is enhanced and a lot of responsibility is being placed firmly on the shoulders of food and hospitality to achieve this. Future Food have seen where this can work in favour of businesses and where it can work to their detriment, and the difference often stems back to having a strategic ‘Food Focussed’ approach.

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What Is Fleet Management: Everything Business Owners Need To Know

Sling

If your business is looking for ways to cut costs and gain real-time control of its mobile workforce, fleet management might be the solution. It doesn’t matter if your business owns one vehicle or 100, a robust administration program will keep those assets in good condition and performing longer than they would otherwise. In this article, we discuss everything business owners need to know about fleet management in order to implement such a program into their existing workflow.

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Viable Restaurant Strategies for Handling the Third-Party Paradox

Modern Restaurant Management

The cost of partnering with third-party food delivery services can be high, but the cost of not doing so could be even higher. Even before the pandemic, this insight was fast-spreading as small, mid-size, and large restaurant chains alike did their best to keep up with the trend, accessing the customers that companies such as DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats had made available.

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The Link Between Deadly Lettuce Outbreaks and a Warming Planet

EATER

For lettuce growers, even a modest warming of the planet has the potential to accelerate existing risks of foodborne illness in the supply chain — and bring about issues we can’t foresee. In the spring of 2018, dozens of people across the country began falling sick. Infected with E. coli O157:H7, a Shiga toxin-producing E. coli — symptoms of which include severe stomach cramps, bloody diarrhea, vomiting, and potentially life-threatening kidney failure — the majority of patients shared one thing

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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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Where To Eat in East Passyunk, Philadelphia

Restaurant Clicks

East Passyunk is one of the best food neighborhoods in Philadelphia. While I may be biased as an East Passyunk Square resident, the restaurants in this area speak for themselves. On Passyunk Avenue alone, you can find foods of various cultures, with different dining atmospheres and different price points, so there’s something for everyone in this neighborhood of South Philly.

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Focus Introduces @Table

Focus POS

Increase Check Size, Decrease Overhead Expenditures with this Innovative Pay-at-the-Table Solution. San Antonio, TX – March 24, 2021 – Focus POS, a leading provider of restaurant management software, is excited to announce the Focus @Table solution. Focus @Table offers customers the ability to walk into a restaurant, sit down, order, and pay right at the table, all from the convenience and comfort of their mobile device.

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Pandemic Effect on F&B Marketing Trends (Infographic)

Modern Restaurant Management

While more Americans are getting vaccinated and states are loosening their lockdown protocols, food and beverage consumers aren't necessarily resuming their former shopping behaviors. Union works closely with F&B brands that want to capitalize on the direct-to-consumer paradigm shift. They've created this infographic to outline how COVID-19 has impacted F&B consumer marketing trends.

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C.R.C. – 3 Words to Get Much Better Results

Ken Burgin

If your staff management, menu updates, and marketing is inconsistent, these 3 words will get you back on track. They create much-needed discipline in an industry that’s often ‘hit and miss’, and they also show staff and public that your business is professional and reliable. Calendar + Reminders = Consistency. And consistency is what makes the difference between smart ideas, and the implementation of them that creates results.

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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.