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2024 Outlook: Restaurant Trends and Challenges, Part Three

Modern Restaurant Management

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.

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Using Technology to Combat the Labor Shortage

Modern Restaurant Management

Particularly impacted by the staffing shortage, restaurants are struggling to beat the labor crisis, with staffing shortages felt in both back-of-house and front-of-house staff. Although employment numbers are on the upswing, employment at eating and drinking establishments was still 1.5 Bureau of Labor statistics.

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How to write a restaurant marketing plan that puts butts in seats [Ideas and Strategies]

7 Shifts

You need to put yourself in front of diners, get them in your door, and turn them into ambassadors of your restaurant that come back and tell their friends about you. Restaurant owners and operators wear a lot of hats. We live in a world where diners are inundated with choices. There are more options for eating out than ever before.

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Everything You Need to Know About Ghost Kitchens (aka. Cloud Kitchens)

The Food Corridor

The model allows one or more virtual restaurants to operate from a delivery-optimized kitchen without the overheads of a dining room or front-of-house staff. Food delivery is nothing new, of course. But moving to a delivery- only model has been made possible recently by advances in technology and changes in consumer habits.

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Restaurant Profit Margins: A No-Brainer Guide to Maximizing Your Profits

Notch

Below, you'll find a series of actionable tips, tricks, and strategies you can employ today to do exactly that! As an owner-operator, your restaurant likely sits at the center of your life. It's not only your business and your livelihood— it's also your dream. So, why do it? Why run a restaurant at all? Profits equal revenue minus costs.

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Restaurant Profit Margins: A No-Brainer Guide to Maximizing Your Profits

Notch

Below, you'll find a series of actionable tips, tricks, and strategies you can employ today to do exactly that! As an owner-operator, your restaurant likely sits at the center of your life. It's not only your business and your livelihood— it's also your dream. So, why do it? Why run a restaurant at all? Profits equal revenue minus costs.

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New & Notable: TEAM Schostak Celebrates 40, AI in Food Service and Beachy Tech

Modern Restaurant Management

New & Notable spotlights the latest news restaurateurs need to know. TEAM Schostak Family Celebrates Anniversary and Employees. TEAM Schostak Family Restaurants (TSFR) is celebrating its 40th anniversary along with the anniversaries of employees that have been with the company for 20 years or more.

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