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Former Red Robin CEO G.J. Hart joins food-and-games investment company Emerging

Restaurant Business

The growth capital firm behind the food-and-games brands Puttshack, F1 Arcade and Flight Club has added more restaurant industry firepower to its leadership team. Emerging is a company founded by Mathew Focht that describes itself as investing “at the intersection of restaurant innovation, technology and experiential entertainment.”

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Experience Is the Best Teacher: Five Things My Father — and Hard Times — Have Taught Me About Leadership in the Restaurant Industry

Modern Restaurant Management

Through financial recessions, terrorist attacks, global pandemics, and just the typical challenges we face in the course of daily business, there are many leadership lessons to be learned. Hiring and training new management is difficult on top of reopening restaurants once a crisis passes. Never Take Advantage of the Guest. Get Better.

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Strategy A La Carte: The Dish on Digital Marketing Trends for Restaurant Brands 

Modern Restaurant Management

They want engaging content that keeps them entertained. By creating a strong online presence through Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and more, restaurants can leverage entertaining content that resonates with the people they want to patron their establishments. TikTok is super trendy, with more than 1 billion users worldwide.

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7 Restaurant Management Book Recommendations

7 Shifts

Topics: Hospitality; hiring and training staff; building workplace culture. ?? To achieve Enlightened Hospitality you need to hire “51 percenters with 5 core emotional skills.” While achieving Enlightened Hospitality may seem redundant while you only serve takeout, it should be a core value of your restaurant and hiring process.

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MRM People & Places: Cassoulet War, Zagat Stories and AQUAlounge

Modern Restaurant Management

Modern Restaurant Management (MRM) magazine's People & Places column features news of company hires and promotions, charitable efforts and product introductions. “Mission Bay is the largest man-made aquatic recreation area in the world, entertaining 15 million visitors annually,” says Hunter. Byron Duncan.

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Restaurant Guests in the Driver’s Seat

Modern Restaurant Management

Throughout his 17 years at Mood Media, he's held various customer engagement and sales leadership roles and has worked with key technology partners to optimize innovative solutions based on vertical market trends and customer feedback that deliver positive ROI to operators. Finally, don't overlook the human element.

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A CHEF WHO GETS THE MESSAGE RIGHT

Culinary Cues

Sometimes the fault lies with a lack of desire to communicate, oftentimes the problem is the incorrect use of communication, but the majority of time the challenge is that leadership has no idea how to effectively communicate a message in a succinct, timely manner. It is important that our sponsors are happy. It’s a win, win.”.