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Nine Critical HR and Payroll Steps to Prepare Your Restaurant for 2025

Modern Restaurant Management

Bonus Tip : If you don’t already have one, consider launching an employee referral program that offers incentives, such as free meals or company merchandise, when a referred candidate is successfully hired and stays with the team. Bonus Tip : Celebrate months without accidents to reinforce a safety-first culture.

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Boost Your Restaurant Business with Five Local Marketing Tips

Modern Restaurant Management

Thousands upon thousands of restaurants were forced to close for safety reasons, some permanently. Today, examine the effects the pandemic has had on the restaurant and food service industry as well as five simple but effective marketing techniques to boost your local business. Highlight Your Safety and Hygiene Protocols.

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From Ghost Kitchens to Living Kitchens: A New Vision for Food Service’s Next Great Space

Modern Restaurant Management

If your cooks are mostly fulfilling off-site orders, you can do away with niceties like a slick front of house, visual merchandising, and a location with hungry walk-ins. Without these pricey anchors dragging down your profitability, you just might be able to focus on making food, and not making rent. Bulk-order fresh and local foods.

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The American Restaurant 2022 (Post Pandemic)

Culinary Cues

Of, course the food must be tasty and appealing at some level and above all else – consistent. How convenient you might ask: we barely need to slow down our cars and roll down the window when our food arrives – that’s convenience. Great food and drink and honest, sincere service can be the sunshine at the end of a not so terrific day.

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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part One

Modern Restaurant Management

Looking ahead, we predict a day when cultivated meat will find its place as a default choice -on menus, because it delivers on taste, nutrition, and food safety, in addition to environmental sustainability and animal welfare. Beyond the realm of food, a similar shift has occurred with electric cars.

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Reopening Your Restaurant? Here’s Your Digital To-Do List

ChowNow

Certain customers won’t be comfortable entering your restaurant to pick up food, especially when there are other guests eating there. Continuing to offer delivery and curbside will make it much simpler for these diners to support your restaurant and enjoy your food. Ditch the commissions. Is capacity limited?

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MRM Research Roundup: Mid-April 2020 Edition

Modern Restaurant Management

Take-out options – For restaurants unable to ramp up a delivery service or worried about the commission cut of food aggregators, takeout being the second best way to earn business is encouraging. Consumers prefer an easy experience when they do choose to order food or buy products or services online. on-premise space.

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