Sat.Sep 30, 2023 - Fri.Oct 06, 2023

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LSM in Action: A Restaurant Brand’s Secret Weapon

Modern Restaurant Management

Ray Kroc, McDonald’s Founder/Fast Food Innovator, said it best, “Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself.” This business is all about people. You have to be able to adapt, evolve and ignite areas of the business with customers always being at the forefront of decisions being made. Engaging with customers on a local level is crucial for achieving long-term success, especially in a customer-driven competitive market.

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Robots & Restaurants: The New Reality for Dining?

Sante

There are already a wide variety of different robots, automated systems, and AI being used in the restaurant industry here in the U.S.

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10 Trendy Restaurant Menu Items To Attract Customers In 2023

24/7 Waiter

Capture the attention of potential customers by taking advantage of social media. You can stay on top of your game and become the “IT” restaurant by navigating your digital presence correctly. This means marketing your food and drink to attract attention and adding some trendy restaurant menu items to draw in a crowd. Unique restaurant menu items make your venue stand out so be sure to get creative with your dishes.

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Guide to Holiday Marketing for Restaurants

Goliath Consulting

An insight into upcoming holidays and marketing strategies every restaurant owner needs to embrace. The festive season is upon us! As the world comes alive with holiday spirit, it’s imperative that restaurant owners stay ahead of the game. With the right strategies, the holidays can become a gold mine for restaurateurs. In this blog, we’ll share some holiday marketing ideas and tips to ensure your restaurant remains the go-to spot for festive celebrations.

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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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Split Shifts: What Are They And Should You Be Using Them?

Sling

If you’re a restaurant manager, you know it can be tough to schedule your employees around service times and rush periods. Especially if they’re accustomed to working a straight eight- or ten-hour shift. Thankfully, there is a solution: the split shift. What is a split shift? What are the advantages for employees and managers ? And is a split shift right for your business?

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High-Volume Holiday Recruiting Strategies

Modern Restaurant Management

Hiring top talent can be a daunting task for any organization. However, for restaurants dealing with high-volume recruitment needs, the challenge is even greater. The need for high-volume recruiting typically arises from rapid growth, seasonal demands like the upcoming holiday season, Challenges While high-volume recruiting can be an exciting indicator of organizational growth, it poses unique challenges for hiring teams.

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Accounting dashboards help keep your restaurant on track

Margin Edge

If you’re in the restaurant business, you know there’s not a lot of downtime. As an operator, you maintain a fast pace to keep everything running smoothly and regardless sometimes things will go wrong. But when it comes to your finances, you literally can’t afford mishaps. That’s where easy-to-understand dashboards can save both time and money. Dashboards translate information into a visual to make data easier for our brains to understand.

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Deep Dive into Fall Trends for Restaurants

Goliath Consulting

Embracing the amber hues, crisp air, and the evolving palette of patrons: A comprehensive guide to this season’s fall restaurant trends. Fall is finally here, which means restaurants are presented with the unique opportunity to blend tradition with innovation. The changing season brings a fresh perspective, allowing establishments to resonate with the essence of autumn.

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Personalizing the Dining Experience Through Music (Podcast)

Modern Restaurant Management

In this episode of The Main Course , hosted by MRM Executive Editor Barbara Castiglia examines music and its impact on the dining experience with guest Ross Honey, President and CEO at TouchTunes.

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A Sweet and Sour Cabbage Soup Recipe From a Legendary Chicago Cafe

EATER

Carolina Rodriguez/Phaidon In Jason Hammel’s new “The Lula Cafe Cookbook,” soup tells a story and warms the soul Jason Hammel has told the story of how he started the Lula Cafe so many times, it verges on legend. It would take a worldwide pandemic for him to finally write it down. Now, 24 years after the restaurant — considered one of Chicago’s finest — first opened, The Lula Cafe Cookbook: Collected Recipes and Stories is finally here.

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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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Off-Premise Order “Shoplifting”: Why It Matters, And How To End It

Restaurant Business

In the past year, several major retail brands have been surprisingly frank with investors about the big financial hits they’ve taken due to theft and fraud. Yet the restaurant industry has been mostly silent about its similar problem: off-premise orders that are lost due to customer pickup mistakes, delivery driver errors and the restaurant version of shoplifting.

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A Second Chance at Success: Tips for Buying a Struggling Restaurant Business

The Rail

By Trent Curry, Contributor Why would anyone in their right mind want to buy a struggling business, especially a restaurant business? For starters, it's a lot cheaper than starting a new business from scratch. But that's not the only reason! If you're considering purchasing a struggling restaurant, read on for information from The Rail about how to make it successful.

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IoT Is Revolutionizing The Way Restaurants Operate and Manage Food Safety

Modern Restaurant Management

IoT has become an indispensable tech solution for the restaurant industry. Integrating IoT devices and connectivity drives efficiency, enhances food safety, mitigates risks, increases transparency, reduces waste, and provides many other benefits for restaurants. In fact, leveraging IoT is revolutionizing the sector by optimizing supply chain management, enhancing the customer experience, and facilitating data-driven decision-making.

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The Impact of Overpouring on Bar Profits: A Guide to Prevention

Sculpture Hospitality

Overpouring may sound like an innocent enough word, but its impact on bar profits can be huge. The practice of overpouring – pouring more than the standard serving size of alcohol or other liquids – can quietly drain profits, leaving business owners scratching their heads.

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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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Domino's and Microsoft are working together on artificial intelligence

Restaurant Business

The pizza delivery giant and the technology company will join forces to develop AI strategies to improve operations and customer service.

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119: Marketing FAQs with Malia Part 2

Food Business

Second in a three part series on Social Media Marketing with Malia at Millenial Marketing. Malia, the owner of Millenial Marketing, and Martha, host of Holy Guacamole, talk through the most Frequently Asked Questions Malia receives regarding social media. Chances are you have asked some of these questions yourself, and know that social media is forever shifting and changing, and you might need an update.

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Tech to Trash Can – How Technology Is Redefining Food Waste

Modern Restaurant Management

Food waste is recognized as an endemic challenge around the world. According to Feeding America , nearly 40 percent of all food in the U.S. is wasted each year, about 119 billion pounds, estimated at over $408 billion. Wasting food while seeing people go hungry is only one aspect of the problem – consider the environmental resources needed to produce, package, and transport, and food waste grows even more concerning.

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10 Ways to Prevent Burnout Among Your Restaurant Staff

Sculpture Hospitality

Running a restaurant or bar is as much about managing your team as it is about delivering great food and drinks to customers. There’s no doubt about it, the hospitality industry, known for its long hours and fast-paced environment, is susceptible to staff burnout.

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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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Chipotle is preparing to open the new Farmesa concept as standalone restaurant

Restaurant Business

The healthful bowl concept has closed its test unit in a Kitchen United but says it is moving that test to the next stage. Yet officials are not revealing any details.

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199. Restaurant Technology Guys Podcast Ep. 199 – Cashier in the Cloud Voice AI tool Kea.Ai

Restaurant Technology Guys

In this episode, Jeremy Julian interviews Adam Ahmad, the CEO and founder of kea.ai, a company that provides human-assisted AI voice ordering for restaurants. They talk about how kea.ai works, what benefits it brings to restaurant operators and customers, and what challenges and opportunities they face in the industry. You’ll hear how kea.ai uses natural language processing and machine learning to handle phone orders efficiently and accurately, reducing wait times, errors, and costs.

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How To Start A Catering Business in 20 Steps

Sling

So you want to start a catering business? That’s great! The catering industry is ripe with potential and profit. You can be a part of this wide-open market. All it takes is a love for food and a bit of hard work. To help you get things cooking, we discuss some of the more important steps for how to start a catering business. Along the way, we’ll address such issues as: Working from home or a storefront The importance of state and local health codes Creating a business plan Getting incorporated a

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Developing a Safety and Sanitation Schedule for Your Commercial Kitchen

Modern Restaurant Management

As a business owner, ensuring the proper sanitation of your commercial ice machines and refrigeration units is critical for maintaining a safe and healthy environment for your customers and employees. By implementing effective training programs for your staff, you can reduce the risk of contamination, improve the quality of your products, and protect your reputation.

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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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Ban on cashless restaurants moves closer to reality in Los Angeles

Restaurant Business

The City Council directed staff on Wednesday to start drafting an ordinance. It would put LA among a number of other cities and states that require businesses to accept cash.

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198. Restaurant Technology Guys Podcast Ep. 198 – Setting The Standard For a Better Calling Experience with First Orion

Restaurant Technology Guys

Learn how branded phone calls can increase guest satisfaction and get you in touch with your customers faster and easier in the restaurant world. Check out the team at First Orion Branded Communication & Call Protection Solutions (firstorion.com) For a full transcript of the show click here 198. First Orion Transcript The post 198. Restaurant Technology Guys Podcast Ep. 198 – Setting The Standard For a Better Calling Experience with First Orion appeared first on Restaurant Technology G

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WAX ON, WAX OFF

Culinary Cues

Mr. Miyagi was on to something in The Karate Kid. There is a process, a rhythm, and an order to so many things in life. You can’t get to the end game without going through the steps requiring “patience, young grasshopper”. We all need to learn the process, the rhythm, and the order to reach a level of competence, understanding, and confidence – there is no shortcut.

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Cheers to Profits! Increase Cocktail Sales in 5 Steps

Buzztime Business

Get ready to stir up more business, and shake up your bottom line. We’ve put together a simple 5-step plan to increase cocktail sales at your bar or restaurant. Whether you run a sports bar or a swanky cocktail lounge, these tips will take your profits to the next level. Step #1) Increase Cocktails Sales by Knowing Your Audience In general, these are the four types of characters you’ll come across today in any given bar.

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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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Restaurateurs are giving their menus an upgrade

Restaurant Business

State of the Plate: Menu trends columnist Nancy Kruse examines operators' push to make their menus more experiential with options such as truffle and caviar.

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Why Your $7 Latte Is $7

EATER

That Pumpkin Spice Latte from Starbucks is going to cost you more than it used to, thanks to inflation and higher wages for workers, among other factors.

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A CHEF’S QUEST – FLAVOR MEMORIES

Culinary Cues

The light, butter rich, flaky pie crust that your mother made without effort; the deep, intoxicating smell of an Italian grandmother’s Bolognese sauce that simmered for hours on the back-burner in preparation for Sunday dinner; the aroma of a steak dripping fat on the coals of your dad’s bar-b-que or the first wood-fired pizza you bit into realizing that this is how pizza was meant to be; a late September – first pick MacIntosh apple that bites in chucks of sweet and sour and drips down your chi

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Restaurant Loyalty & Omnichannel Marketing Can Scale Your Business

Squirrel Systems

Omnichannel marketing is a strategy for restaurants that can drive greater customer loyalty, brand awareness, and repeat visits from guests. Omnichannel marketing is a common strategy in many industries, including retail, entertainment, and eCommerce. The restaurant industry has been less inclined to embrace omnichannel strategies, although some sectors, notably quick-service restaurants, have been more enthusiastic about the approach.

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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.