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Six Important Steps Restaurants Should Take to Build a Strong Food Safety Culture

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Ensuring food safety is essential for restaurant brands and others within the food industry. A weak food safety culture can have severe consequences, including product recalls, foodborne illnesses, reputational damage, diminished customer loyalty, and financial losses.

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Why Training is the Key to Accurate Messaging About Gluten-Free Foodservice

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When staff are unable to answer basic questions about your gluten-free menu, or ask inappropriate questions of guests who inquire about gluten-free options, consumers may have doubts about your ability to ensure their safety or prepare a dish that meets their dietary needs. The first step is to clearly identify any gluten-free dishes.

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Amid Influx of New Employees, Restaurants Must Build and Reinforce Brand Excellence

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Fewer employees have carried the burden of prepping, cooking, and serving food while working to keep guests safe. Restaurants must adopt tech solutions to boost safety, quality, accuracy, transparency, consistency, and compliance – all factors that contribute to brand excellence. To accomplish this: Improve training efforts.

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Restaurant training in 2023: An comprehensive overview for owners

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Restaurant training is one of the most important things an owner can put into place. Well-trained teams mean shifts run smoothly and guests are happy with service. With ongoing training, you improve your chances of talented employees growing professionally as the restaurant or restaurant group grows.

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How F&B Companies Can Mitigate Some of the Industry’s Biggest Risks

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Already one of the largest sectors of the global economy, the food and beverage industry shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, according to the Business Research Company’s 2023 Food and Beverages Global Market Report, the global industry’s market size grew over 7.3 percent from $6,729.54 billion in 2022 to $7,221.73

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

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Other advancements include: integrating data from various sources, including social media, reviews, and loyalty programs, to gain a holistic view of customer behaviour as well as as well as the implementation of real-time analytics for immediate insights into customer behaviour and preferences. Nothing is fraud proof.

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8 Ways to Navigate The Restaurant Staff Shortage

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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics July 2023 Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary , the number of job openings in the food services and drinking places industry was 1.9 This means that there were 600,000 more job openings than hires in the food services and drinking places industry in July 2023.